Christian Pilgrimage

First Journey Antioch on the Orontes - Seleucia Pieria - Salamis - Paphos - Perge - Antioch in Pisidia - Iconium - Lystra - Derbe - Lystra - Iconium - Antioch in Pisidia - Perge - Attaleia - Seleucia Pieria - Antioch on the Orontes (Acts 13:114:28) The next phase in the churchs expansion into Türkiye began in Acts 13:1. Here the prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch set apart St. Barnabas and Saul for a ministry work to which

Over a period of some ten years in the middle of the first century, St. Paul made three journeys, traveling through Anatolia and Greece spreading the gospel. In the course of these, he visited much of Anatolia, probably walking a good deal of the way, accompanied by one or more companions. It has been estimated that St. Paul traveled some 20,000 km on his missionary journeys. A considerable part of this was overland through Anatolia, on Roman roads which followed

St. Paul, the great Christian missionary, was born perhaps in 10 CE, in the Cilician city of TAbout St. Paularsus. His family was Jewish and from them he inherited Roman citizenship. St. Paul was privileged to have been born a Roman citizen at a time when it was not yet a universal right for people in the empire. There are several theories about why the Apostle chose the name by which he is known today. St. Paul’s cognomen, ‘Paulus’ the name

Sixty percent of the holy places mentioned in the Bible and important for the Christian world, including the Seven Churches of Revelation, also known as the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse and the Seven Churches of Asia, seven major churches of early Christianity, as mentioned in the New Testament Book of Revelation are located in Asia Minor, present-day Turkiye. According to Revelation 1:11, on the Greek island of Patmos, Jesus Christ instructs John of Patmos to: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven Churches: to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and to Thyatira, and