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  1. Jun 8, 2023 · No doubt, disciples in the early Church became known as Christians. But does this mean that their Church was not the Catholic Church? A little historical study into the church at Antioch reveals that these early Christians’ church was, indeed, the Catholic Church.

  2. May 14, 2024 · Its original structure reflected certain peculiarities of the early Catholic church as it developed in the city of Rome. Indeed, the dignity, or rank, of cardinal and the cardinals as a college have no tradition in Christian scripture or in the early centuries of the church.

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  4. Catholic Church. The College of Cardinals, more formally called the Sacred College of Cardinals, is the body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church. [1] As of 19 April 2024, there are 237 cardinals, of whom 127 are eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope. Cardinals are appointed by the pope for life.

  5. By the time of the first ecumenical council of the Church, held at Nicaea in Asia Minor in the year 325 A.D., the bishops of that council were legislating quite naturally in the name of the universal body they called in the Council of Nicaea's official documents "the Catholic Church."

  6. With no basis in Scripture—the usual Church authority for the Middle Ages the college of cardinals grew not from a fairly precise function grounded in the apostolic Church, as did the...

  7. At the beginning of the second century, we find in the letters of Ignatius the first surviving use of the term “Catholic” in reference to the Church. At that time, or shortly thereafter, it was used to refer to a single, visible communion, separate from others. The term “Catholic” is in the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian creeds ...

  8. The papacy played a central if not exclusive role in the establishment and encouragement of the universities. Naturally, the granting of a charter to a university was one indication of this papal role. Some 81 universities had been established by the time of the Reformation. Of these 33 possessed a papal charter, 15 a royal or imperial one, 20 ...

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