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The world on one date. Drag the year, or run it.

What it shows

Every place someone in the record stood, year by year: 21 sees, 48 journeys across 242 legs, and 34 dated slices of how far each church reached. Every leg carries its citation and the confidence the record supports.

The sees

The journeys

  • Jesus — Bethlehem to Nazareth Q302 · -5–7 · 5 legs
  • Mary Magdalene — from Magdala to Ephesus Q63070 · 20–50 · 3 legs
  • Paul — Damascus and the early years Q9200 · 20–43 · 7 legs
  • Jesus — the ministry Q302 · 28–30 · 20 legs
  • Matthew — the tax booth and the east Q43600 · 28–50 · 3 legs
  • Simon — Egypt and Persia Q12871 · 30–62 · 3 legs
  • Barnabas — Cyprus and Antioch Q185856 · 30–49 · 7 legs
  • Mark — from Jerusalem to Alexandria Q31966 · 30–62 · 8 legs
  • Peter — through Judea and Samaria Q33923 · 30–44 · 6 legs
  • Andrew — Scythia, Byzantium, Patras Q43399 · 30–60 · 4 legs
  • Thomas — Parthia and India Q43669 · 30–68 · 4 legs
  • Philip — to Hierapolis Q43675 · 30–54 · 2 legs
  • Jude — Edessa, Armenia, Persia Q43945 · 30–62 · 4 legs
  • Bartholomew — India and Armenia Q43982 · 30–60 · 3 legs
  • James — the Hispania legend and the sword Q43999 · 30–43 · 3 legs
  • John — Jerusalem to Ephesus and Patmos Q44015 · 30–96 · 5 legs
  • Matthias — the thirteenth lot Q44020 · 30–50 · 2 legs
  • James of Alphaeus — the Egypt tradition Q44047 · 30–50 · 2 legs
  • Luke — the physician’s road Q128538 · 40–70 · 7 legs
  • Paul — first missionary journey Q9200 · 46–48 · 11 legs
  • Peter — Antioch and Rome Q33923 · 47–60 · 2 legs
  • Paul — second missionary journey Q9200 · 49–52 · 18 legs
  • Paul — third missionary journey Q9200 · 53–57 · 15 legs
  • Paul — captivity in Caesarea Q9200 · 57–57 · 1 legs
  • Paul — the voyage to Rome Q9200 · 59–60 · 8 legs
  • Ignatius — the road to martyrdom Q44170 · 107–108 · 7 legs
  • Polycarp — Smyrna to Rome and back Q192371 · 110–155 · 3 legs
  • Irenaeus — Smyrna to Lyon Q182123 · 130–178 · 4 legs
  • Origen — Alexandria to Caesarea Q170472 · 203–251 · 4 legs
  • Cyprian — the exile from Carthage Q190240 · 248–258 · 3 legs
  • Gregory the Illuminator — Cappadocia to Armenia Q309953 · 260–301 · 3 legs
  • Nino — Cappadocia to Iberia Q236779 · 280–320 · 2 legs
  • Frumentius — Tyre to Axum Q251060 · 300–347 · 4 legs
  • Helena — the pilgrimage to Jerusalem Q170164 · 312–326 · 2 legs
  • Athanasius — exile and return, and again Q44024 · 328–366 · 7 legs
  • Ulfilas — Constantinople to Moesia Q107317 · 337–348 · 2 legs
  • Augustine of Hippo — Thagaste to Milan, and home to Hippo Q8018 · 354–391 · 6 legs
  • Jerome — Rome to Bethlehem Q44248 · 360–386 · 6 legs
  • Chrysostom — Antioch to the city, and into exile Q43706 · 386–407 · 4 legs
  • Patrick — Slemish to Armagh Q165479 · 405–432 · 3 legs
  • Columba — Derry to Iona Q236326 · 546–563 · 2 legs
  • Augustine of Canterbury — Rome to Kent Q32520 · 596–597 · 2 legs
  • Maximus the Confessor — Constantinople to Lazica Q206842 · 610–662 · 5 legs
  • Aidan — Iona to Lindisfarne Q132148 · 630–635 · 2 legs
  • Boniface — Rome to the German mission Q160445 · 718–754 · 4 legs
  • Ansgar — the mission to the north Q110299 · 810–848 · 5 legs
  • Methodius — Thessalonica to Moravia Q470621 · 815–873 · 4 legs
  • Cyril — Thessalonica to Moravia and Rome Q351026 · 826–868 · 5 legs

How far each church reached

  • The church of Alexandria and the Delta 30–189 · traditional
  • Egypt - the sees Demetrius and Heraclas ordained 189–325 · traditional
  • Egypt, Libya and the Pentapolis 325–543 · documented
  • Egypt and Nubia under the see of St Mark 543–1055 · traditional
  • The Chalcedonian (Melkite) patriarchate of Alexandria 536–1055 · traditional
  • Antioch, Syria and Cilicia 30–268 · traditional
  • The East (Oriens), with Palestine and Cyprus 268–451 · traditional
  • The East after Chalcedon 451–1055 · traditional
  • The Syriac Orthodox church of Syria and Mesopotamia 544–1055 · traditional
  • The island of Patrick's mission 445–1055 · traditional
  • Greater Armenia 301–1055 · traditional
  • The English church from the Gregorian mission 597–1055 · documented
  • Roman Africa — Proconsularis, Numidia, Byzacena 180–698 · traditional
  • Thrace — primacy of honour after Rome 381–451 · documented
  • Thrace, Asia and Pontus 451–733 · documented
  • The Byzantine church with Eastern Illyricum, Calabria and Sicily 733–1055 · traditional
  • The island church of Barnabas 45–1055 · traditional
  • Asia — the Johannine coast 65–1055 · traditional
  • Aksum and the highlands 330–1055 · traditional
  • Kartli (Iberia) from the mission of St Nino 337–1055 · traditional
  • Aelia — the honoured mother church within Palestine 33–451 · traditional
  • The three Palestines 451–1055 · documented
  • The metropolitanate of Rus' 988–1055 · traditional
  • Gaul — the Rhone corridor and Lugdunensis 177–1055 · traditional
  • The Syriac Orthodox east under the maphrian of Tikrit 629–1055 · traditional
  • The Bulgarian church, to the archbishopric of Ohrid 870–1055 · traditional
  • The church of the city and the Italian congregations 30–180 · traditional
  • Italy, Africa and Gaul - the Latin churches in correspondence 180–314 · traditional
  • The Latin West after Arles, with Eastern Illyricum 314–733 · traditional
  • The Latin West after the Illyricum transfer 733–1055 · traditional
  • The church in the Persian empire — Mesopotamia and Adiabene 33–410 · traditional
  • The Church of the East under the catholicos 410–635 · traditional
  • The Church of the East at its widest 635–1055 · traditional
  • Northumbria and the North 627–1055 · traditional