African Popes

John) who were looking for slaves to become knights to Pope Leo X. Knights in those days had to be at least eighteen years old, it is believed or we assume that Leo Africanus was in his 20s at the time of his capture. He was one of the lucky ones though, because of his education, travel experience and journals, he was sought out by the Pope's men to go to work directly for the Pope in Rome. His journals provided an inside look at Africa and that is what saved him. Without these he would have been imprisoned for life … or would have suffered a worst fate. Obviously he could not have remained a Muslim so he finally converted to Christianity. He was baptized by the Pope himself. His journals claim that this conversion was merely superficial and he remained a Muslim at

Francis of Assisi lived about eight hundred years ago. He was born in the city of

European domination in Africa began because the Portuguese wanted to establish a faster route to India. Yet, when the Portuguese arrived they began to set up a trade of gold, slaves and ivory. The Europeans pretended to be Christian humanitarians and attempted to convert the Africans to Christians. They used god to justify their mistreatment of the natives. Many of the natives did convert to Christianity and accepted the Europeans mistreatments. The Europeans set up port cities on the African coast in order to help their ships on their journey to India. At the port cities, they could stop, rest, and replenish their supplies.

Since Africa had many diseases such as malaria, Europeans were able to create drugs to protect themselves from such diseases. Africa was vast, and there was an abundance of different languages and cultures. This made

The contribution of Pope John XXIII has been profound, as many of his initiatives and actions are still resonating today. His acceptance of Jesus’ words “I came to save all nations.” Represented his motivation to do well and bring peace upon the world. He was an advocate of Christian unity, social justice, human rights and the promotion of world peace. It is through his development of the Second Vatican Council, his contribution to ecumenism and his empathy for humanity that Pope John XXIII made a significant impact upon the development and expression of Christianity.

Africa was the first continent, out of Asia that Islam spread into during the early 7th century. In the mid 7th century Islam had already spread into northern Africa. This was only a few decades after the Prophet

The religious contributions of the early fathers of the Coptic Church have remained unnoticed and sometimes have been ascribed to the Greeks, until the relatively recent rediscovery of the Copts and their heritage. During the first four or five centuries of our era, Egypt produced some of the most illustrious names in Christian annals. Men such as Origen, Athanasius, Cyril the Great, St. Anthony, St. Pachomius, Shenute the Great, and many more have left their mark on the history of Christian civilization both within and outside

He then brought Pope Leo III back into power after he had been driven by invaders. Lastly,

In the 19th century Europeans wanted to improve their country. Many countries looked up to african sources. Parts of Africa were colonized by European power. Yes european acquisition of african were motivated by african colonies. Without African colonies european wouldn't be strong as it is. European acquisition was motivated religiously, economically, and politically due to the industrial revolution in 1840 and imperialism. During imperialism Europeans states started big empires in africa, but also asia, and the middle east.

Saint Francis of Assisi had a great childhood, but as he got older his father began to beat him. He lived the life of luxury, and was the the son of a very rich cloth merchant. He was born in Circa, Italy in 1181. He abandoned the life of luxury, for a life devoted to Christianity, and God. He was very devoted into living in poverty, and he rebuilt the Christian church. He is the patron Saint of ecology and animals. He wanted to go to the Christian church reportedly after hearing God’s voice. He insisted that this was his calling and his adulthood confirmed it.

“He is ... the first Jesuit pope. And remember, the Jesuit order was founded in the 16th century to fight against the spreading

Pope Urban called for the lords and knights who formed society’s military elites. Pope Urban was a good communicator, but what he said was a

Pope John Paul the Second It was recently this year that the Catholic world had lost its leader,

There are major biblical records that give account of several contract of inception of Christianity in Africa. The child Jesus was taken to Egypt for safety as recorded in Matthews’ gospel, Simon who was compelled to carry Jesus cross was from Cyrene (Libya), there where visitors from Egypt and Cyrene during the Pentecost and where responsible for the founding of the church in Antioch the Ethiopia Eunuch in Acts 8. According to Elizabeth Isichei, while every day in the west, roughly 7500 people in effect stop being Christians everyday in Africa roughly double that number become Christians. The expansion of Christianity in the twentieth century African has been so dramatic that it has been called the fourth great age of Christian expansion” right from the inception in Africa, Africans has played a vital role for the growth of Christianity. “Christianity in Africa is of global significance, and the direction it takes is of importance to Christians everywhere. In the past, foreign missionaries Christianized Africa. Today the Christians of Africa are invited to Africanize Christianity” . Thomas C. Oden noted,. “Western Christian dogma was formed with precision in Africa before it became ecumenically received world wide” .

St. Leo the great has been called “the master builder of the papacy.” He is also considered one of the most important of the Western fathers of the Church he was also declared a “Doctor of the Church”. He put the idea of primacy of jurisdiction fully into practice. He passed away in 461 A.D. however there are 143 letters and 96 sermons that cover every season of the liturgical year that are still around to this