Timeline of Christian Missions - Era of The Seven Ecumenical Councils

Era of The Seven Ecumenical Councils

Main articles: Rise of Christianity during the Fall of Rome and First seven Ecumenical Councils See also: Timeline of Christianity#First Seven Ecumenical Councils

• 327 - Georgian King Mirian III of Iberia converted by Nino
• 330 - Ethiopian King Ezana of Axum makes Christianity an official religion
• 332 - Two young Roman Christians, Frumentius and Aedesius, are the sole survivors of a ship destroyed in the Red Sea due to tensions between Rome and Aksum. They are taken as slaves to the Ethiopian capital of Axum to serve in the royal court.
• 334 - The first bishop is ordained for Merv / Transoxiana (area of modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and southwest Kazakhstan)
• 337 - Emperor Constantine baptized shortly before his death
• 341 - Ulfilas begins work with the Goths in present-day Romania
• 350 - Bible is translated into Saidic, an Egyptian language
• 354 - Theophilus "the Indian" reports visiting Christians in India; Philostorgius mentions a community of Christians on the Socotra islands, south of Yemen in the Arabian Sea
• 364 - Conversion of Vandals to Christianity begins during reign of Emperor Valens
• 370 - Wulfila translates the Bible into Gothic, the first Bible translation done specifically for missionary purposes
• 378 - Jerome writes, "From India to Britain, all nations resound with the death and resurrection of Christ"
• 380 - Roman Emperor Theodosius I makes Christianity the official state religion
• 382 - Jerome is commissioned to translate the Gospels (and subsequently the whole Bible) into Latin (Price, p. 78
• 386 - Augustine of Hippo converted
• 397 - Ninian evangelizes the Southern Picts of Scotland; three missionaries sent to the mountaineers in the Trento region of northern Italy are martyred
• 400 - Hayyan begins proclaiming gospel in Yemen after having been converted in Hirta on the Persian border; in starting a school for native Gothic evangelists, John Chrysostom writes, "'Go and make disciples of all nations' was not said for the Apostles onlyu, but for us also"

See also: Christianity in the 5th century

• 410 - New Testament translated into Armenian
• 420 - A Pre-Islam Arabian Bedouin tribe under sheikh Peter-Aspebet is converted
• 425 - The first bishops are ordained for Herat (Afghanistan) and Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
• 432 - Patrick goes to Ireland as missionary
• 450 - First Christians reported in Liechtenstein
• 496 - Conversion of Clovis I, king of Franks in Gaul, along with 3,000 warriors
• 499 - Persian king Kavadh I, fleeing his country, meets a group of Christian missionaries going to Central Asia to preach to the Turks
• 500 - First Christians reported in North Yemen; Nairam becomes Christian center

See also: Christianity in the 6th century

• 508 - Philoxenus of Mabug begins translation of the Bible into Syriac
• 529 - Benedict of Nursia destroys pagan temple at Monte Cassino (Italy and builds a monastery
• 535 - The Hephthalite Huns - nomads living in northern China and Central Asia, who were also known as the White Huns - are taught to read and write by Nestorian missionaries.
• 542 - Julian (or Julianus) from Constantinople begins evangelizing Nubia, accompanied by an Egyptian named Theodore
• 563 - Columba sails from Ireland to Scotland where he founds an evangelistic training center on Iona
• 569 - Longinus, church leader in Nobatia, evangelizes Alodia (in what is now Sudan)
• 578 - Conversion to Christianity of An-numan III, last of Lakhmids (Pre Islam Arab prince)
• 592 - Death of Celtic/Irish missionary Moluag (Old Irish: Mo-Luóc)
• 596 - Gregory the Great sends Augustine and a team of missionaries to (what is now) England to reintroduce the Gospel. The missionaries settle in Canterbury and within a year baptize 10,000 people
• 600 - First Christian settlers in Andorra (between France and Spain)

See also: Christianity in the 7th century

• 604 - A church is reportedly planted on Thorney Island (where Westminster Abbey now stands)
• 627 - Conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria
• 629 - Amandus of Elnon is consecrated a missionary bishop. He evangelized the region around Ghent and went on missions to Slavs along the Danube and to Basques in Navarre
• 630 - Conversion of the East Angles (one of the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy)
• 635 - First Christian missionaries (Nestorian monks, including Alopen, from Asia Minor and Persia arrive in China; Aidan of Lindisfarne begins evangelizing in the heart of Northumbria (England)
• 637 - Lombards, a German people living in northern Italy, become Christians
• 638 - A church building is erected in Ch'ang-an, then perhaps the largest city in the world (see Daqin Pagoda)
• 647 - Amadeus, bishop of Maastricht, carries out missionary work in Frisia (Netherlands) and among the Slavs
• 650 - First church organized in Netherlands
• 673 - Irish monk Maol Rubha founds a training center at Aprochrosan that would serve as a base for missionary outreach into Scotland
• 680 - First translation of Christian scriptures into Arabic
• 687 - Conversion of Sussex
• 689 - Pagans kill Irish missionary Kilian near Würzburg in what is now Germany.
• 692 - Willibrord and 11 companions cross the North Sea to become missionaries to the Frisians (modern day Netherlands)
• 697 - Muslims overrun Carthage, capital of North Africa

See also: Christianity in the 8th century

• 720 - Caliph Umar II puts heavy pressure on the Christian Berbers to convert to Islam
• 716 - Boniface begins missionary work among Germanic tribes
• 724 - Boniface fells pagan sacred oak of Thor at Geismar in Hesse (Germany)
• 740 - Irish monks reach Iceland
• 771 - Charlemagne becomes king and will decree that sermons be given in the vernacular. He also commissioned Bible translations.
• 781 - Nestorian Stele erected near Xi'an (China) to commemorate the propagation in China of the Luminous Religion, thus providing a written record of a Christian presence in China
• 787 - Liudger begins missionary work among the pagans near the mouth of the Ems river (in Germany)