Our Church was founded at Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit - as fire flames - came down over the Holy Apostles in Jerusalem. About three thousand souls were christened at the time, establishing the first community or group of faithful (cf. Acts 2). The new teaching was preached in Jerusalem, then in other towns of the Holy Land, first among the Jews. Beginning with the fifth decade of the first century, the Holy Apostles started their missionary work in the "pagan world, too, according to the commandment that the Saviour Himself had given them before His ascension to heaven, that is to teach and christen "all nations" (Matthew 28: 19).
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