What happened to the church at Corinth?

[nikkelkitty]

What happened to the Churches to whom Paul wrote his epistles? We obviously still have Rome. But what happened to the Church at Corinth or the Church at Ephesus? Best I can find about Colossae is that it was destroyed by earthquake in about 60 AD, but I am finding nothing about the other churches and what happened to them after the letters were written.

 

[bzkoss236]

Not much of a history buff, so someone can correct me.

But if I had to make a guess, I would say that the Churches are now split between the Byzantine rite of the Catholic Church and the Byzantine Orthodox.

There were earthquakes that took a toll on Corinth as well.

 

[katy]

Ephesus was abandoned when the harbor dried up.

 

[nikkelkitty]

@katy: thanks, that helps put Ephesus in perspective

@bzkoss236: I’m not sure I understand what you are saying about the Churches being split.

My question comes from looking into early church history from about 100-500 AD. The Churches at Rome, Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, Nicaea, and others, seem to be very involved in the early debates and defining the Faith. But other churches that we hear about from the Bible (and know that Paul took a personal interest in, such as Corinth) seem to be oddly missing. I am trying to figure out why the Churches are silent.

 

[JuantheTuba]

Rome - the diocese still exists as we know.

Corinth - being an ancient city it has been destroyed and rebuild many times, the one that St. Paul wrote to was destroyed in 375 then rebuild and destroyed a couple of tiem afterwards. Here’s modern day Corinth, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth, not sure what diocese it falls under but, it probably is a Greek Orthodox one.

Galatia - was not an actual city but a region in central Asia Minor, or modern day Turkey, there are probably very few Christians living there anymore.

Ephesus - doesn’t exist anymore, in it’s place is a nearby city of Selcuk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sel%C3%A7uk and again there are probabaly very few Christian living there to have their own diocese.

Philippi - is now Filippoi, and it’s a very small village, with a population of just over 10,000, probably not important enough to have it’s own diocese, so it’s probably under another bigger one and probably Greek Orthodox.

Colossae - another city lost to time, at one point it changed its name to Chonae, and now it’s just a bunch of ruins, there’s a nearby modern Turkish town known as Honaz but probabaly very few Christians live there.

Thessalonica - Which has also survived to the modern day, but its church, as I understand it, is now part of the territory that belongs to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

 

[Evan]

Rome - the diocese still exists as we know.

Corinth - being an ancient city it has been destroyed and rebuild many times, the one that St. Paul wrote to was destroyed in 375 then rebuild and destroyed a couple of tiem afterwards. Here’s modern day Corinth, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth, not sure what diocese it falls under but, it probably is a Greek Orthodox one.

Galatia - was not an actual city but a region in central Asia Minor, or modern day Turkey, there are probably very few Christians living there anymore.

Ephesus - doesn’t exist anymore, in it’s place is a nearby city of Selcuk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sel%C3%A7uk and again there are probabaly very few Christian living there to have their own diocese.

Philippi - is now Filippoi, and it’s a very small village, with a population of just over 10,000, probably not important enough to have it’s own diocese, so it’s probably under another bigger one and probably Greek Orthodox.

Colossae - another city lost to time, at one point it changed its name to Chonae, and now it’s just a bunch of ruins, there’s a nearby modern Turkish town known as Honaz but probabaly very few Christians live there.

Thessalonica - Which has also survived to the modern day, but its church, as I understand it, is now part of the territory that belongs to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

I would add that, in addition to an Othodox Eparchy, there is probably a Catholic Eparchy containing each of these ancient areas.