Watch The History of Christianity. Lecture 9 of 30. The Evolution of the Structure & Hierarchy of the Church.

History of Christianity. Lecture 9 of 30. The Evolution of the Structure & Hierarchy of the Church. Jesus left the Apostles with little in the way of instruction for his infant congregation. Organization, to put it mildly, was loose and informal. But within two centuries the Church had transformed itself into a mirror image of the Roman Empire itself.