1339: Why Latin was Liturgical Aug 11, 2018

Latin, especially Ecclesiastical Latin, is often associated with Christianity, but it took a non-Roman to do it. Back in the early centuries of Christianity, the religion spread throughout all of the Roman Empire, and this included Berbers of North Africa. The Roman elites at the time stuck with Greek as the liturgical language, but in the 2nd century North Africans used Latin. The 14th Pope, Victor I (pope 189-199) was a Carthaginian Roman, and in many ways introduced Latin to Christianity, which subsequently became the dominant liturgical language in Europe for more than a millennium.
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