Saul, who is also known as Paul, was filled with the Holy Spirit. Paul continued to spread the gospel “Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, chosen by God to be an apostle and sent out to preach his Good News (Roman 1:1). Paul not only spread the gospel around the world but Paul also wrote most of the epistles found in the Bible, in the New Testament. Paul's mission was expanded to Rome where Christianity spread very quickly. Christian faith was founded in Italy, the heart of the Roman Empire. There is not to trace an exact historic date for Christianity in Italy. Christian faith started in Italy as the Roman Catholicism. Italy was the heart of the Roman Empire, where Christianity was founded “Epistles of Paul suggest that Christianity had already been established in Italy and especially Rome, for a long time, thus preceding Paul. For instance, Paul in Romans 16, wrote at about AD 57, he greets many …show more content…
The emperor had a dream the night before a battle against the enemy emperor Maxentius, in which he had a vision with the sign of Christ. After the victory, he converted to Christianity.
Catholics mean universal; therefore, the Roman Catholic Church is considered the universal Christian Church. The Catholic tradition proclaim that Jesus began the papacy when he chose Peter to be his representative.
Matthew 16:13-16 Jesus declared: ‘you are Peter (Petros), and on this rock (petra) I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven’….All popes are considered symbolic descendants of Peter and are thought to hold ‘Peter’s Chair’. The pope exercise exercises principal legislative, executive, and judicial power over this state; the person of the pope is considered as the spiritual leader of the world’s Roman Catholics” (Akinfe, pp.