The following Table[28] will show the probable field of the labours of each Apostle, so far as the record of it has come down to us:—
Supposed Fields of Apostolic Labour.
Name of Churches. By whom Founded.
Palestine and Syria All the Apostles.
Mesopotamia (Turkey in Asia) St. Peter and St. Jude.
Persia St. Bartholomew and St. Jude
India St. Bartholomew and St. Thomas.
Thrace (Turkey in Europe) St. Andrew. The flourishing
Church of Constantinople
afterwards sprang up on this
field of his labours.
Scythia (Russia) St. Andrew.
North Africa (Egypt and St. Simon Zelotes. St. Mark
Algeria) specially connected with
Alexandria.
Ethiopia (Central Africa). St. Matthew.
Arabia. St. Paul.
Asia Minor (Turkey in Asia) St. Paul and St. John.
Macedonia (Turkey in Europe) St. Paul
Greece St. Paul.
Italy St. Peter and St. Paul.
Spain St. Paul.
Gaul (France) and Britain St. Paul and St. Joseph of
Arimathea.
[1] Acts xiii. 2.
[2] The first offers of salvation continued to be made to the Jews, even after the recognition by the Church of her mission to the Gentiles.
[3] Acts xiii. 48, 49, 52; xiv. 1.
[4] Acts xiv. 23.
[5] "presbyter," afterwards shortened into "Prester" and "Priest," is derived from the Greek word "Presbyteros," "an Elder."
[6] Acts xi. 30.
[7] Acts xx. 28.