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Also known as: Jerusalem Conference
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Category: History & Society
Date:
c. 50
Location:
Israel
Jerusalem
Participants:
Apostle
history of early Christianity
Key People:
St. Barnabas
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St. Peter the Apostle
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Council of Jerusalem, a conference of the Christian Apostles in Jerusalem about 50 ce that decreed that Gentile Christians did not have to observe the Mosaic Law of the Jews. It was occasioned by the insistence of certain Judaic Christians from Jerusalem that Gentile Christians from Antioch in Syria obey the Mosaic custom of circumcision. A delegation, led by the Apostle Paul and his companion St. Barnabas, was appointed to confer with the elders of the church in Jerusalem. The ensuing apostolic conference (noted in Acts 15:2–35), led by St. Peter the Apostle and St. James, “the Lord’s brother,” decided ...(100 of 185 words)

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