>There was no "Year 0". According to the Julian and then Gregorian
Calenders,
>the year before 1 AD was 1 BC. This of course after the Church established
the
>calender years by trying to place the birth of Christ in 1 AD. So 1-100 AD
is
The establishment of the Church is about 30 A.D. On the pentecost day of
the
year Jesus died and resurrected. Back then there were only Jewish
Christians,
(well, the word "Christian" was not invented back then...) so they most
likely
followed Jewish calender rather than Roman. (Passover/Easter is right in the
new year season)
A common protestant point of view says theRoman Catholic Church is
established
by the emperor Constantinus, about 300 years after the establishment of the
Church.
I don't think that Christians of those early days, being under severe
persecution, had
much influence to the calender system. BTW, it is well known that the exact
birthyear
or birthdate of Christ is unknown. probably because, for Christians, His
death and
resurrection taking place during the Passover feast is much more
significant.
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