It was Constantine The Great, Emperor of Rome, on 313 AD he declared "Christianity" (his own version of it) as the official religion of Rome, hence the self proclaimed leader of Christianity called for the Council of Nicaea on 325 AD, on such council they established the 25Th of December as the appointed date for Christmas, the very same day of the holiday of Dionysus for the Greek and Horus for the Egyptians.
In the Council of Nicaea were also discussed what Jewish scriptures should be put together to conform the Bible, which they originally called "Biblos" which means simply "Book" in Greek language but Biblos was also a Phoenician city.
Constantine may have legalized Christianity in 312, and showed his preference for it by convening the council of Nicea in 325 AD, but his capital was in Byzantium (then Constantinople, now Istanbul), and Theodosius may have outlawed all other religions in the Empire in 395 AD, but neither left their imprimatur on the Church of Rome. Even then, the Patriarchs of Constantinople and Alexandria had serious disagreements with the way the Roman Church was shaping up. The Roman Church was thou roughly Roman, calling the Pope, Pontifex Maximus, a position once held by Julius Ceasar. But the Roman Empire was Governed from Constantinople, and the Church of Rome is separate from the governance of the Roman Empire when the Empire of the West fall to the Germanic Tribes, while the East continued as the Byzantine Empire for another thousand years.
Jesus Christ. He is also called "Emmanuel" which means "God with us" which is appropriate since He is part of The Holy Trinity.
He was born of the virgin Mary and had a ministry on Earth. He had many disciples, but there were 12 of particular note called "The Apostles."
These Apostles preached to people in many parts of the world as Jesus instructed to them. It is from something called "Apostolic succession" we get the priest, bishops and popes we have had since.
The name "Catholic" to refer to Christians was used as early as 107AD (in documents we have preserved, but may have been mentioned sooner in documents that no longer exist) by St.Ignatius of Antioch who was ordained by the apostle, Pope Peter I.
Furthermore, it is not the "Roman Catholic Church." It is simply "The Catholic Church." The extra word "roman" was used as an insult by Anglicans and other Protestants in England. There is a reason why that term is only used in English speaking parts of the world.
I see there are a lot of mention to Constantine so I feel I now need to discuss him a little. Contrary to popular belief, he did not make Christianity a state religion. He allowed religious freedom, and contrary to popular belief, he didn't become a Christian himself until his very last days.
Also, Constantine had nothing to with the canonization of The Bible. This was done before he was even born.
People will tell you that he did though, and that it was done to favor the Romans. And why would anyone think that The Bible was written by Constantine to make the Romans look good, when passages of the New Testament (Mark 5, Luke 8) are naming demons after the Romans? The New Testament had a *very* poor view of the Roman Empire and identified it as one of the persecuting empires (Revelations 17:10). If Constantine's goal was to make Rome look good by using The Bible, he fell short there, wouldn't you agree?
Yes, the first council of Nicea did happen during the time of Constantine, but it did not meet to discuss Biblical canon. It met regarding other matters.
The Catholic Church has consistently referred to itself as the ?Catholic Church? at least since 107 C.E., when the term appears in the writings of St. Ignatius of Antioch
The term "Roman" Catholic is rather recent.
The new Anglican Church in England started using the term ?Roman? in the 1500s as one of many ways of demeaning and demonizing Catholics.
Catholics accepted this late coming adjective without too much protest. Today ?Catholic? and ?Roman Catholic? are interchangeable terms. Both terms are even used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
To add a little more confusion, some apply the term ?Roman Catholic Church? only to the Latin Rite Catholic Church, excluding the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches that are in full communion with the Pope, and are part of the same Church, under the Pope.
Eastern Rite Catholic Churches include:
Alexandrian liturgical tradition
? Coptic Catholic Church
? Ethiopic Catholic Church
Antiochian (Antiochene or West-Syrian) liturgical tradition
? Maronite Church
? Syrian Catholic Church
? Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Armenian liturgical tradition:
? Armenian Catholic Church
Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition:
? Chaldean Catholic Church
? Syro-Malabar Church
Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition:
? Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church
? Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
? Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
? Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Kri?evci
? Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
? Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
? Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
? Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
? Melkite Greek Catholic Church
? Romanian Church
? Russian Byzantine Catholic Church
? Ruthenian Catholic Church
? Slovak Greek Catholic Church
? Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
The term ?Roman? neither increases nor decreases the faith, hope and love of the Catholic Church.
The Anglican or Episcopalian churches were started in England by King Henry VIII in 1533.
Assemblies of God, and the hundreds of other splinter Pentecostal groups, were started by various men during the 20Th century.
The Baptist church was started by John Smyth in 1609 in Amsterdam.
Calvary Chapel - was started by Chuck Smith in Costa Mesa, California in 1965.
The Catholic Church was started in Jerusalem by Jesus Christ in 33 A.D.
Christian Scientist was started by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy in 1879.
Church of Scientology - was started by L. Ron Hubbard in Washington, D.C. in 1952.
Jehovah's Witness was started by Charles Taze Russell in Pennsylvania in 1879.
The Lutheran church was started by Martin Luther in Germany in 1517.
The Methodist church was started in London by John and Charles Wesley in 1744.
Mormon (Latter Day Saints) was started in New York by Joseph Smith in 1830.
The Presbyterian church was started by John Calvin in Switzerland in 1555.
The Salvation Army was started by William Booth in London in 1865.
Seventh Day Adventist was started by Ellen Gould White in 1860.
The Unitarian church was started by Theophilus Lindley in London in 1774.
To get closer to Jesus is to get closer to the people who knew Him. To worship Jesus better is to get closer to the way people who knew Him worshiped Him. This will lead you to the Catholic Church.
One Holy Catholic and apostolic Church... the Church of Jesus = Catholic Church
The Catholic Church has two rites: 1 Latin/western rites and 22 eastern rites
Follow the tree that Iamcatholic has illustrated.
Briefly, the western rites is the roman Church and 22 eastern rites are said in the common language of the eastern churches.
When you refer to roman church, you are only talking of the western rites.
Jesus Christ did, as clearly stated in the Bible itself.
I think it's worth pointing out that whenever this question is asked (as in this case), some of the answerer's making the case for Christ founding the Catholic Church actually bother to give Biblical and historical references. The crowd of bigots who bleat "Constantine" never, ever give references for their answer, since there is no historical reference for that opinion (as in this case).
Paul seems to have gotten it started but to me, the founding father was Constantine.
If he had not bought the then Orthodox Cchurch, killed the competition and burn the other scriptures, Catholicism and Christianity would not be what it is today.
His pushing the vote through on the foolish Trinity concepts also helped.
It was God's plan from the beginning to have Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit. This can be demonstrated by the fact that the bible says that Jesus "was crucified from the foundations of the Earth," that is to say, God planned to crucify Jesus as atonement for sin before he even created human beings or God damned sin.
If God had not intended humans to sin from the beginning, why did he build into the Creation this "solution" for sin? Why create a solution for a problem you do not anticipate?
God knew that the moment he said "don't eat from that tree," the die was cast. The eating was inevitable. Eve was merely following the plan.
What kind of God would plan and execute the murder of his own son when there was absolutely no need to?
Only an insane God. That’s who.
The cornerstone of Christianity is human sacrifice, thus showing it‘s immorality.
who created the roman catholic church?
