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Box 21.2 The Beginnings of the Roman Church

In Rome, on 57 or 58 C.E., the Christian Church was already established, is probably the date for Paul's letter, although no one knows for sure.  Scholars say that writings of the Roman historian Suetonius, are evidence that Christianity already existed about a decade before Paul's letters.  By the 50s, Roman Christianity was mostly made of Gentiles.  But scholars, don't know who brought Christianity to Rome.