Bishop Victorinus and the Christian community in Petavia (second half of the 3rd century)

This publication is a translation of an article by Professor Rajko Bratož - a contemporary Slovenian researcher of the history of the ancient Church, and in particular, of the history of the Pannonian Church, which was founded in the first century AD by the labors of the Holy Apostle of the Seventy Andronicus, Bishop of Pannonia. In the article, on the basis of the surviving works of St. Victorinus of Petavia and his contemporaries, the author comprehensively examines the life of Christians in Petavia in the second half of the 3rd century, i.e. during the very period when the city of Petavia in Pannonia (the largest of the Roman provinces on the Danube), was part of the Roman Empire Translated from the German by Svetlana Kobrina, Lecturer at the Department of Philology of Perervinsky Orthodox Theological Seminary and edited by Nicholas Khandoga, Candidate of Theology, candidate for the degree of Doctor of Theology at the Department of Theology of the Sts. Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of Post-graduate Studies.