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Rome• Roman Catholic Church• Congregation at Rome soon highly respected• 4 main reasons• 1. First church to be persecuted• (Nero – 64 AD and Domitian – 95 AD)
• 2. Peter and Paul Martyred there• Started by Peter and Paul?
• 3. Reputation for charity/hospitality• 4. Very Big Church• 1 Bishop, 46 elders, 7 deacons, 42 acolytes, 52 readers,
15,000 poor and widows
Serapis• Invention of Ptolemy I?• Attempted to unite
Greeks and Egyptians• Built a huge temple in
Alexandria
Alexandria
• Very pluralistic• (many truths)
• Many Christians there worshipped Serapis• Syncretism• combination of different (often contradictory) types
of thought• Ptolemy had Hebrew scriptures translated to Greek• Allegorical interpretation• Hidden meanings• Example – Logos=God’s creative principle,
not Son of God