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* '''Thomas'''. According to tradition, the apostle Thomas traveled to India and brought the Christian faith the country. The community is today called St. Thomas Christians.[1]

* '''Mark'''. In the faith and traditions of the Coptic church, the apostle Mark is said to have introduced Christianity to Egypt.[2]

* '''Jude Thaddeus and Bartholomew'''. The Armenian Apostolic Church holds that they brought Christianity to Armenia.[3]

* '''Matthew and Bartholomew'''. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has the tradition that they introduced Christianity to the Ethiopian people.[4]

* '''Philip'''. The ''Acts of Apostles'' has the narrative of Philip converting to Christianity an Ethiopian treasurer who was visiting what is now Israel. There is some reason to believe Christianity may have first been introduced to Ethiopia with that event:

* "Then the angel of the Lord said to Philip, Start out and go south to the road that leads down from Jerusalem to Gaza. So he set out and was on his way when he caught sight of an Ethiopian. This man was a eunuch, a high official of the Kandake (Candace) Queen of Ethiopia in charge of all her treasure." (Acts, 8:26–27)

* '''James'''. According to Spanish tradition, he brought Christianity to Spain. He is the patron saint of Spain.[5]

* '''Peter'''. Peter was Patriarch of Antioch, in what is now Syria.[6]

* '''John'''. According to tradition, John worked with the first Christians in Ephesus, in what is now Turkey.[7]

* '''Andrew'''. According to tradition, Andrew brought Christianity to what is now modern-day Ukraine, along the coast of the Black Sea. It was is held that he travelled up the Dnieper River to what is now Kiev. He is the patron saint of Ukraine and Russia.[8]