Statistics for Early Christian History

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Jewish rabbi, founder of the Christian faith	Jesus of Nazareth	97%
Founder's "Rock", denied his master	Peter	85%
Former persecutor turned missionary and writer of most of the New Testament	Paul	78%
First Christian martyr, stoned to death	Stephen	58%
First person to see above after Resurrection (according to Gospels of Mark and John)	Mary Magdalene	56%
Brother of above, also an Apostle	Andrew	51%
Apostle who, according to tradition, traveled to India	Thomas	44%
Island on which St. John wrote Revelation	Patmos	42%
Council in which the issue of the Trinity was clarified, produced a well-known statement of belief	Council of Nicaea	37%
Doctor of the Church, wrote Confessions and City of God	Augustine	35%
City in which followers were first called Christians	Antioch	32%
Bishop in modern-day Turkey, patron saint of children	Nicholas	23%
Heresy that asserted that the Son was not coequal to or coeternal with the Father	Arianism	22%
Collection of heresies that asserted the body and material world were inconsequential or evil	Gnosticism	22%
Doctor of the Church, translated the Bible into Latin	Jerome	22%
Disciple of St. John, Bishop of Smyrna, matyred by burning at the stake	Polycarp	12%
Third (or fourth) Bishop of Rome, wrote an Epistle to the Corinthians, martyred by drowning	Clement	11%
Disciple of St. John, Bishop of Antioch, wrote seven epistles on orthodoxy and obedience, martyred in the arena by wild beasts	Ignatius	10%
Third and fourth century theologian, wrote first comprehensive history of the Church	Eusebius	9%
"Father of Latin Christianity", discouraged Greek learning, formulated idea of the Trinity	Tertullian	8%