Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Christendom" in English language version.
"Christendom" [...] means literally the dominion or sovereignty of the Christian religion.
The ante-Nicene age ... is the natural transition from the Apostolic age to the Nicene age.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)The whole issue had, in fact, become confused with the confusion of functions of the Church and State. In the view of the Church of England the ultimate governance of the Christian community, in things spiritual and temporal, was vested not in the clergy but in the "Christian prince" as the vicegerent of God.