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Originally Posted by Billy the Kidd Go ahead and tell us which sects are older than the Catholics then. I seem to recall one of Jesus' apostles ya know... going to Rome to further the church. Before which time they were all Jews still. |
How about all the Christian communities that formed around the Mediterranian basin before it spread to the Italian peninsula? Coptic Orthodox Christianity in Egypt never answered to a Roman Pope. How about the Gnostics? They weren't "all Jews" because most of the people in those areas weren't Jews; they were Greeks, Egyptians, Ethiopians, and Syrians, and other various people living in that area.
There's also a monastery in Ireland that was founded around 37ad, before the Roman Catholics got there...granted, that one may have been absorbed into the RC church eventually.