How did they formed the Catholic Church during the Roman Empire

Now, mostly Muslim, North Africa was one day a Christian heart, as the Catholic Popes that left their mark on the church to this day produced.

Their voices were in the era of the Roman Empire, which spanned across modern Tunisia, northeastern Algeria and the West Libya coast.

“North Africa was the Bible belt of ancient Christianity,” says Professor Christopher Pelito, historian of Kane University in the United States.

Many Catholics in Africa hope that the papacy will return to the continent for the first time in more than 1500 years, when a successor to Pope Francis was chosen.

Here, we look at the previous three African popes – and how they made Christians to celebrate Easter on Sunday and St. Valentine’s Day.

The three were identified in the church as two saints.

It is believed that of barbarian origin, Pope Victor was responsible for the Catholic Church at a time when Christians were sometimes persecuted by Roman officials for their refusal to worship the Roman gods.

Perhaps he is famous for making sure that Christians celebrate Easter on Sunday.

In the second century, some Christian groups celebrated the Romanian province of Asia (in Türkiye in the modern era) on Easter on the same day that the Jews celebrated Easter, which could fall in different days of the week.

However, the Christians in the western part of the empire believed that Jesus had been revived on Sunday, so Easter should always be celebrated on that day.

The debate about when the resurrection occurred is a very controversial problem.

Easter controversy was a symbol of the biggest conflicts between East and West, and whether or not Christians should follow Jewish practices.

Victor called the first Senodes Romanian – a gathering of church leaders – to solve the impasse.

He did this by threatening to send from the church these bishops who refused to comply with his desires.

“It was a fairly strong voice to get everyone on the same page,” Professor Pelito told the BBC.

The historian said this was an impressive achievement, because “the bishop of Rome was when Christianity was illegal in the Roman Empire.”

Another important part of the Victor I legacy is to present Latin as a common language of the Catholic Church. The ancient Greek was previously the basic language of Catholic Liturda as well as the official communication of the Church.

Victor Anna himself wrote – and spoke – Latin, which was widely spoken in North Africa.

Pope Meltaydis is believed to be born in Africa.

During his reign, Christianity gained increasing acceptance of successive Roman emperors, and in the end became the religion of the official empire.

Before that, the persecution of Christians was widespread at various points in the history of the empire.

However, Professor Pelito indicated that the militias were not responsible for this change, saying that the Pope was “benefiting from the Roman charity” instead of being a wonderful negotiation.

Meltadis was given a palace by the Roman Emperor Constantine, becoming the first Pope with an official residence.

He also obtained permission from Constantine to build a church, which is now the oldest general church in Rome.

While modern popes live and work in the Vatican, the Latin Church is sometimes referred to as Catholicism as “the mother of all churches.”

Glasius I is the only one of the three African popes who historians believe was not born in Africa.

“There is an indication of being … the Roman birth. So we do not know if it (ever) lived in North Africa, but it seems clear that he was of North Africa’s origin,” Professor Pelito explained.

He was the most important leaders of the three African Church, according to Professor Peleito.

The first generation was widely recognized as the first door called “Deputy Christ” officially, a term indicating the role of the Pope as a representative of Christ on the earth.

He also developed the doctrine of swords, which confirmed the separate but poor forces in the church and the state.

Glasius was distinguished by the fuel that both rulers were granted to the Church by God, who then delegated the ground force to the state, making the church eventually superior.

Professor Pelito said: “At a later time, in the Middle Ages, the popes sometimes tried to veto against the choice of an emperor or a king, because they said that God gave them this power,” said Professor Pelito.

Glasius I also remembers his response to the academic defection – a division between the Eastern and Western Christian churches from 484 to 519.

During this period, Gilassius emphasized the superiority of Rome and the Papua over the entire church, East and West, which experts believe beyond any of its predecessors.

Glasius is also responsible for a popular celebration that is still marked every year – where ST Valentine was created on February 14 in 496 to celebrate the Christian martyr St. Valentine.

Some accounts say that Valentin was a priest who continued to perform weddings in secret when it was banned by Emperor Claudius II.

Historians believe that Valentine’s Day is rooted at the Roman Festival of Love and Fertility, Lubrikalia, and it was a step by Gelsius I to the traditions of Christian paganism.

Professor Pelito says there is no way to know any degree of accuracy how the three popes look like.

“We have to remember that the Roman Empire, and indeed the Middle Ages, did not think about race as we think about the matter at the present time. It has nothing to do with the color of the skin.”

“People in the Roman Empire did not deal with race, as they dealt with race.”

Professor Filomina Mora, an academic at the University of Kenyatta in Kenya, told BBC that Roman Africa was very multicultural, with barbaric groups and the Bunisi Group, Obaid singled out from Rome.

“The North Africa community was completely mixed, and it was also a commercial way for many people who participated in trade in ancient times,” she explained.

Instead of identifying specific ethnic groups, “most people belonging to areas within the Roman Empire consider themselves Romanians,” Professor Mora added.

Nothing from 217 Popes since Glasius I believed to have come from Africa.

Professor Mora said: “The church has weakened in North Africa due to many forces, including the fall of the Roman Empire and also the penetration of Muslims (in North Africa) in the seventh century,” said Professor Mora.

However, some experts argue that the spread of Islam in North Africa does not explain the absence of the Pope from the entire continent for more than 1500 years.

Professor Pelito said that the election process has become a new “Italian monopoly” for many years.

However, he said that there is a strong opportunity for the Pope from Asia or Africa in the near future because Catholics in the southern hemisphere exceeds their number in the north.

In fact, Catholicism expands more quickly in sub -Saharan Africa today more than anywhere.

The latest figures indicate that there are 281 million Catholics in Africa in 2023. This represents 20 % of the global group.

Three Africans in the race against Pope Francis – Democratic Republic of the Congo Ferdeoline Ambongo Bisongo, Peter Kudo Abia Trixon from Ghana and Robert Sarah Guinea.

But Professor Mora argued that “although Christianity is very strong in Africa, the strength of the church is still in the north, where the resources were.”

“Perhaps, as it is still very strong inside the continent and supports itself, time will come when there is an African door,” she said.