Where or when did the catholic religion REALLY started?

Question

I said REALLY, don´t put that it is in the bible, because its not.

Answer 1

The Catholic church was the first organized Christian Church. It was began by Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century

Answer 2

Actually it is in the bible and in the immediate writings following the bible by the people ordained by the apostle. The very first use of the word Catholic that we still have preserved was by Ignatius of Antioch, who was trained by Peter and John and who was the third bishop of Antioch. He is the successor to St. Peter in that see following Evodius' death. The Catholic Churches services were written by Peter, Mark and James. James and Mark's service are still in use, Peter's service is incomplete now but is basically the Roman Easter Vigil service.

The very first ordination of a bishop is in Act 1:46, the very beginning of the post resurrection church.

The only Church until the Reformation was the Catholic Church. You see confirmation in the book of acts, baptism in the book of Acts and the Gospels, ordination in the book of Acts, healing in James and the Gospels, reconcilliation in John's and Matthew's Gospel. Marriage in the Gospels as well. The liturgy of the hours is mentioned in Acts, holy tradition is explicitly mentioned in Timothy. Eucharist throughout.

The Catholic and the Orthodox Church are one Church in schism not separate denominations.

I think you view the Catholic Church as something that happened later, but I suggest you read 1 Clement, all of Ignatius of Antioch, Irenaeus and all the apostolic and ante-Nicene fathers. You will find nothing but Catholicism. In fact, if you look at the early Reformers you will find that all that was from the beginning was the Catholic Church.

It is a late Protestant myth that Catholicism is new or post-Constantinian. No serious Protestant scholar would hold that is true and no secular historian would either. Even before the apostles are dead you see the third Pope, Clement, exercising papal authority over Corinth.

Protestantism and in particular the anabaptists had to answer the claim they were new innovations and hence false. Luther's, Calvin's, Zwigli, Simmons and the others can now be seen as clearly conditioned by the sixteenth century and truly as innovations. The old view in Christianity was that if it wasn't true throughout Christian history then it isn't true. Protestantism is an invention. The reason there are 46,000 Protestant denominations, each one claiming to be correct, is that you can invent any belief you want and start a church. In Catholicism, no one can invent a belief or change one.

The word Catholic means "all embracing" or "according to the whole." Hence, Catholic means non-denominational. It is governed by the beliefs of the whole across all time, not particular beliefs or parts of the Church.

Answer 3

I am not really certain so consider this as plain speculation. The Word Catholic was taken from the word "Katolos" meaning universal. It is a Greek word which could only mean that it may have started from Greece. However, the Roman through the leadership of Constantine declared Christianity or believers of Jesus the Christ as the official religion of the Empire and was establshed in Rome but safely housed in Istanbul, Turkey. I will try the wikipedia or google now and if youn are still here or for any opportuniyt that the same question will be aised again I will write their report.

Answer 4

Don't know who would tell you that the Catholic religion is quoted in the Bible, because it is not. Constantine had a so-called vision and decided to convert to Christianity. He saw that it was working for his enemies. So he declared Christianity as the official religion and made himself the first Pope. There is no supreme father in the Bible. As a matter of fact, the Bible says to call no one father, but me (God). There is no organized official church. There were local independant churches that could best handle the fellowship and charity of it's citizens. There is absolutely nothing in the Bible that says you must pray to anyone other than God. There is no intercessor and we don't have to confess our sins to anyone other than God. And it also says to pray repetitive prayers is to pray like the heathen/pagan that repeats mantras.

All I've mentioned is in the Bible. Everything you need to know about catholicism is in a history book.

Answer 5

Catholics trace their lineage back to St Peter, the rock.

St Peter was the first leader of the church after Christ ascended to heaven.

After the Romans persecuted them for about 275 years they were able to become a formal religion with the Council of Nicea.

This was a political move by Constantine, the Roman ruler who needed the unity the Christians brought in order to rule his empire.

Answer 6

I think the two major turning points in creating what we consider to be the distinctively Roman Catholic Church are:

1) The Council of Trent (1545-1563)

2) The First Vatican Council (1869-1870)

Answer 7

Although it did not call itself Catholic or even Christian until later, the Church was prepared by Jesus Christ naming Simon 'the Rock' Peter as the rock upon which he would build His Church but not started until the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost.

According to Acts 11:26 "it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians."

The Catholic Church has referred to itself as the “Catholic Church” at least since 107 AD, when the term appears in the writings of St. Ignatius of Antioch.

With love in Christ.

Answer 8

It was the Emperor Constantine who got it organized, along the lines of the Roman civil service, so maybe it wouldn't be too far off to say it started with him, about 300 A.D. Christianity, of course, is older than that.

Answer 9

You'd have been better off asking this in History, rather than Religion, as it is a historical questions.

Why not just go to Wikipedia?

Answer 10

In Rome
at the beginning of the
3rd century according to encylopedia