The Center for Early African Christianity

Three Hebrew Boys in the Fiery Furnace

Marble, Unknown Provenance

African Provinces

1-99, C.E.
100-199, C.E.
200-299, C.E.
300-399, C.E.
400-499, C.E.
500-599, C.E.
600-699, C.E.
700-799, C.E.
800-899, C.E.
900-999, C.E.

Egypt
Ethiopia
Nubia

708

Byzantium's last outpost in Africa falls to the Arabs; conquest of Spain lies ahead; by 711 the Arabs are threatening central Gaul.

731

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People echoes many earlier African voices (Origen, Pachomius, Augustine, Cyril) long buried in medieval European texts.

787

Second Council of Nicaea confirms veneration of icons.