Early Christian

Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. Christianity spread from the Levant, across the Roman Empire, and beyond. Originally, this progression was closely connected to already established Jewish centers in the Holy Land and the Jewish diaspora throughout the . The first followers of Christianity were Jews who had converted to the faith, i.e. Jewish Christians, as well as Phoenicians. Early Christianity contains the Apostolic Age and is followed by, and substantially overlaps with, the Patristic era.