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A History of the Church from the Earliest Ages to the Reformation, Vols. I–III is unavailable, but you can change that!

George Waddington’s A History of the Church from Earliest Ages to the Reformation synthesizes fifteen centuries of church history into 3 volumes. Instead of following the chronological history of the church century by century, this classic church history is instead divided up according to connected themes and events. This enables an easier understanding of complex events and the consequences that...

more recent foundation, prove the continued progress of the faith in those regions, even after the last of the apostles had been removed. The date of the foundation of the five Churches, not established by St. Paul, is not ascertained. But they appear to have been governed by their several bishops at a very early period. Nevertheless, they regarded Ephesus as their head—partly as the metropolis of Proconsular Asia; partly, as having received the faith from the lips of an Apostle. At the end of the
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