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Church life in the Province of Scythia Minor VIAŢA BISERICEASCĂ ÎN SCIŢIA MINOR
Authors: Drd. Bugiulescu Constantin Valentin
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Saint Andrew, the Apostle of the Gets-Dacians (Scythes).As Romanians, we draw our
Christian faith from St Andrews’s activity, who preached on the territory between the Danube
and the Black Sea, later on called Dobrudgea, known from the antique sources as “Scythia
Minor”.In the 3rd century, the number of these “lay” missionaries increased due to certain
Christian prisoners whom the Goths - established on the territory north of the Danube - used to
bring here from Asia Minor, where Christianity was known as far back as the “apostolic
century”. Some of them were ordained as bishops, chorepiscopi, priests and deacons.