The expansion of Christianity : a gazetteer of its first three centuries / Roderic L. Mullen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mullen, Roderic L.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 0920-623X ; v. 69.

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 0920-623X ; v. 69

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Church history--Primitive and early church.

Physical Description:

x, 407 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2004.

Summary:

This complete list of known early Christian communities provides references to the original sources for the diffusion of earliest Christianity.

Contents:

Part 1 Christian Communities in Asia Before 325 C.E.

Palestine 21

Syria Phoenice 33

Syria Proper 40

Arabia 47

(Roman) Mesopotamia 54

Assyria and Babylonia 59

Persia 66

India and Bactria 70

Isauria, Cilicia, and Cyprus 74

Dioecesis of Asia 83

Dioecesis of Pontica 114

Pontus Polemoniacus, Colchis, and Transcaucasian Iberia 133

Armenia Major 136

Part 2 Christian Communities in Europe Before 325 C.E.

Dioecesis of Thrace 143

North and Northwest Coasts of the Black Sea 152

Greece 154

Province Dalmatia 170

Moesia Superior 172

Dacia Traiana 175

Pannonia 178

Dioecesis of the City of Rome 184

Dioecesis of Italy 211

Noricum 220

Raetia 221

Germania (Superior and Inferior) 222

Gaul 226

Britannia 242

Hispania 248

Part 3 Christian Communities in Africa Before 325 C.E.

Egypt 263

Cyrenaica and Libya 294

Africa Proconsularis 298

Numidia 311

Mauretania Sitifensis 319

Mauretania Caesariensis 321

Mauretania Tingitana 326

Unlocatable Christian Communities in North Africa 328

Ethiopia (Aksum) to the mid-Fourth Century 330.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-385) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9004131353

OCLC:

53091441