This timeline of Christian missions chronicles the global expansion of Christianity through a listing of the most significant missionary outreach events.
Early history of Christianity#Apostolic Age
Timeline of Christianity#Apostolic AgeApostolic Age and Acts of the Apostles
Christianity in the 1st century
Earliest dates must all be considered approximate
33 – Great Commission of Jesus to go and make disciples of all nations; Pentecost, a day in which 3000 Jews from a variety of Mediterranean Basin nations are converted to faith in Jesus Christ.
34 – In Gaza, Philip baptizes a convert, an Ethiopian who was already a Jewish proselyte.
34 – Saul of Tarsus is converted, and becomes Paul.
39 – Peter preaches to a Gentile audience in the house of Cornelius in Caesarea Maritima.
42 – Mark goes to Alexandria in Egypt
47 – Paul (formerly known as Saul of Tarsus) begins his first missionary journey to Western Anatolia, part of modern-day Turkey via Cyprus.
50 – Council of Jerusalem on admitting Gentiles into the Church
51 – Paul begins his second missionary journey, a trip that will take him through modern-day Turkey and on into Greece
52 – Thomas arrives in Malabar and Coromandel Coast in India and founds church that subsequently becomes the Syrian Malabar Nasranis
54 – Paul begins his third missionary journey
60 – Paul sent to Rome under Roman guard, evangelizes on Malta after shipwreck
Ante-Nicene Period
Timeline of Christianity#Ante-Nicene Period
Early history of Christianity#Post-apostolic period
Christianity in the 2nd century
100 – First Christians are reported in Monaco, Algeria; a missionary goes to Arbela, a sacred city of the Assyrians that the Christian church is katholikos ("universal")
112 – Pliny the Younger reports rapid growth of Christianity in Bithynia
140 – Hermas writes: "The Son of God ...
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