The apostolic communities
- From
- 30 AD
- Origin
- Jerusalem and the eastern Mediterranean
The first Christian congregations, Jewish in membership and setting, spreading through the synagogues and cities of the empire. Every later tradition traces itself here.
Bodies that grew from it
In the record
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30 AD–33 AD Founding
The first communities
Followers of Jesus form a distinct movement within Judaism, meeting in homes and synagogues.
This body appears in the history but does not carry recorded doctrinal positions here, so it is absent from the comparison panels.