History of the Papacy Podcast

This is first installment of a two part series of Sidetrack Episodes on the background of the various reforms of Diocletian. We will focus primarily on the economic reforms of Diocletian and discussed how they affected the growth of the Roman Papacy...

Sidetrack Episode 5 - Boniface the Eighth, Unsung Hero is available for download. This episode originally aired on the History Collage presented by History Podcasters.com, but includes bonus commentary. As always, thank you for listening and enjoy!...

This time on the History of the Papacy Podcast's Sidetrack episodes, we will take a closer look at the impact of the Plague of Cyprian on the growth of the early Christian movement. We will see if a major plague can actually help a movement grow and...

Christianity and the Roman Papacy have weathered a serious persecution and the fall out of how to deal with the Christians who had sacrficed. Now we are entering a long period of relative peace and quiet for Christianity. There are controveries,...

This is the third of our Sidetrack Episodes. In this Sidetrack we look at a Pope who was not a Pope of Rome, but instead a Pope of Alexandria. Dionysius was the Bishop of Alexandria, then as today they are known as Pope. Dionysius of Alexandria was...

At long last, we're back with Episode 23: The Ante-Nicene Popes Part 3. In this episode we will start sifting through the mess left over at the end of the Persecution of Decius. A mess is the only way to describe it, we have politics, personal dislike...

In this Sidetrack Episode, we will take a look at the issue of excommunication and the importance of excommunication to the early Christian movement. We will take a look at how one can become excommunicated and the ways someone can get back into...

The second part of our tour of the popes before the Council of Nicaea will start in a fairly stable situation where Christianity was largely tolerated, but we will quickly move into the first formal, centralized persecution of the Christian Church....

This is the first of a new series called "Sidetrack Episodes." These episodes will investigate some issues, ideas and personalities around the history of the Roman Popes, but don't exactly fit into the narrative of the main episodes. In this first...

In this special episode, we will take a look at the formation and development of the biblical canon. Why were certain documents accepted as canonical and others tossed out? This will be a wide ranging discussion with New Testament scholar Dr. Robert...