Out of curiosity I desire to know from you which church would you say came first?

Question

I am not asking between any two churches or denominations but which church came first.

Answer 1

The first church was the church of God that came on the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem on passover after Jesus died. In the book of acts you read about how people like the Apostle Paul planted other churches in Asia and Europe. None of those churches had a denominational name. They were only identified as "the church of God in __________" Corinth, Ephesus, Rome, etc.

Paul wrote to the church in Corinth and reproved them for following after men instead of being united in Christ. There is only one true church of God and it isn't under some denominational sign. It is made up of all of the people who have been born again by the Holy Spirit and who are the spiritual body of Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you....23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;....you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 2:5

Answer 2

Acts 8
8:1 And Saul was there, giving approval to his death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.

like the other early churches just the name of the city
This is the Church of Jerusalem, the ruins of were found this year

Answer 3

Despite the claims of the Catholics, there was no time in history when all Christians were perfectly unified in a formal denominational structure. The Orthodox churches are just as old as the Roman Catholic Church.

Answer 4

Do you recall when Jesus said to do as the Pharisees say because their authority comes from the fact that they sit on Moses' seat (But they preach and do not practice)?

The confusion we have in Christianity today is not authored by the Holy Spirit. Christ transferred "the seat of Moses" to Peter when he gave him the keys to the kingdom of heaven (He gave similar authority to the apostles in general). As with Moses, that authority passes down the line through the successors of Peter and the apostles. The authority to determine the canon of Scripture and interpret it lies solely with them. The Bible warns not to try and interpret it individually.

The apostles called themselves the Catholic church. The term Catholic is derived from two Greek words KATA and HOLOS, meaning "according to the whole", or more loosely, "universal".

According to the whole is what the apostles and their successors meant when they needed to settle an issue of belief. That is why they call for church councils, such as that described in the book of ACTS, so they can hammer out what the church believes "according to the whole".

Saint Ignatius of Antioch was a desciple of the Apostle, John. He also traveled with Sts Peter and Paul and was appointed bishop of Antioch by St Peter, himself. He had this to say in his letter to the Smyraeans:

"See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery (priests) as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. Let that be deemed a proper Eucharist, which is [administered] either by the bishop, or by one to whom he has entrusted it. Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. It is not lawful without the bishop either to baptize or to celebrate a love-feast; but whatsoever he shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid. "

Christ promised to send his Spirit to guide the apostles and their successors into "all truth" and that the gates of Hell would never prevail against his church. His promise protected his church in the first century as well as in the fourth century. In the seventh, eleventh, fifteenth and twentieth centuries, too.

Answer 5

The Catholic Church was the first Christian Church. That is a fact of History.
http://www.voy.com/1120/205.html

Answer 6

Orthodox, starting with the church at Jerusalem formed at Pentecost.

Answer 7

First of all, church means called out. The children of Israel were called out of Egypt. Abraham was told to leave his relatives (called out). The scriptural old testament was the law of Moses; not Genesis-Malachi. Does this answer your question?

Answer 8

I would say that the worship of GOD in the Garden of Eden was the VERY first church. However, with the worship of the TRUE GOD, there arose many different types of pagan religions, such as, sun worship.

Answer 9

Catholic was the first Christian religion

Answer 10

catholic