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Oh, Sound. So. Side Track Episode 9, The Church and Churches.

Welcome back to the history of the Papacy podcast.

I'm Steve, your host for this podcast about the history of the popes of Rome and the Christian church.

This is an installment of our sidetrack episodes, where we take a closer look at some of the fascinating characters,

events, and really anything else that's interesting, but it doesn't quite fit into the direct story of the popes of Rome we explore in the main episodes. Since the beginning of this podcast,

History of the Papacy podcast, we have been talking about popes and the Christian Church.

There are other podcasts on the history of the Christian church and an uncountable number of books,

lectures, websites, et cetera, on the topic. So what is the church and what is a church?

These really are two different yet related concepts.

The difference between a definite and indefinite article is both a big and small thing.

In this episode, we'll talk about how the concept of the church and how the actual physical building Christians used to worship was developed.

We've talked about the church from the first episode of this podcast.

Jesus told Peter he would be the rock in which he built his church. The concept of the church goes all the way

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