The Roman Catholic Church traces its beginning back to the original church which was established at Pentecost in AD 301. However, the official beginning of the Roman Catholic church occurred in 590 CE, with Pope Gregory I. This time marked the consolidation of lands controlled by authority of ...
The symbolic birth of the Christian church is marked onPentecost, a festival that celebrates the gift of theHoly Spiritto thedisciplesand the beginning of the church’smission. According toActs 2, this event occurred 50 days after theAscensionof Jesus. The members of the early Christian church...
conversionreligious experiencecalled “baptism with theHoly Spirit.” Recalling the Holy Spirit’s descent upon the first Christians in Jerusalem on the day ofPentecost, orShabuoth(Acts of the Apostles2–4), this experience appears to have been common in the Christian movement during its first ...