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Search for King James Bible Study, KJV, and download the app today. Episode 49, the fall of North African Christianity. Welcome back to Aida Z History Presents the papacy in early church.

I'm your host, Steve.

It's hard to believe that at one time Africa was the heartland of Christianity.

In particular, Northwest Africa held some of the most important centers of early Christianity and many of the most influential

Christian leaders were from North Africa. We've talked about North Africa in past episodes,

but it is worth defining the exact geographical area we'll be discussing in this episode.

North Africa is a gigantic area. It stretches from the

Atlantic Ocean in the west all away to the Red Sea in the east. It is bordered to the north by

the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert in the south. These geographic features played a key role in the history of

the area. We're going to split North Africa into two pieces for our conversation today, Egypt and the

Maghreb. These two regions of North Africa were quite different in antiquity and indeed are

distinct to this day.

The region of the Maghreb contains the following countries starting in the west and moving east,

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.

We'll get into the geography and demography of those places in a bit.

Egypt was separated from the rest of North Africa, because in antiquity,

Egypt was much more influenced by the Greeks than rather than the Latins.

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