well, not actually that he founded it...but that he was so instrumental in it's birthpangs.... and in the seperation of the early church from its Jewish roots. But then, this topic is probably best taken off list :-) Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Krupnak" <LKrupnak@erols.com> To: <GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 11:19 AM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Schramm and Lexicon Hello Pam, You wrote in part: > I knew from my own research that the Catholic church since its > conception in the 3rd century under Constantine forcibly (thru > economic or religious) would have many subjugated countries convert > to RCC or suffer the consequences. ******* It's not true that Emperor Constantine founded the RCC (Roman Catholic Church): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I_(emperor) http://gbgm-umc.org/UMW/Bible/ce.stm http://www.reformation.org/council_of_chalcedon.html ________ Lavrentiy Krupniak . ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== Would you like to see messages that were posted before you joined the list? To search the archives, go to: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GERMAN-BOHEMIAN