History of Christianity

This article outlines the history of Christianity and provides links to relevant topics.

Developing Christianity outside the Mediterranean world

Christianity was not restricted to the Mediterranean basin and its hinterlands; at the time of Jesus a large proportion of the Jewish population lived in Mesopotamia outside the Roman Empire, especially in the city of Babylon, where much of the Talmud was developed.

Related Topics:
Babylon - Talmud

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• Thomas Christians (Also known as Syro Malabar Christians or Nasrani) established in India possibly as early as 52 and certainly before 325.
• Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
• Christianity in the Sassanian Empire
• Christianity in Bosnia
• Christianity comes to the British Isles
• Christianity comes to Ireland (traditionally dated 432) and the evolution of Celtic Christianity
• Irish missionaries and the spread of Christianity to Britain and Northern Europe
• The establishment of papal authority in Ireland after the Great Schism
• Nestorian Christians travel the Silk Road to establish a community in the Tang Dynasty capital of Chang'an, building the Daqin Pagoda in 640
• Christianity in Ethiopia