This book presents history of church as a simple, clear, memorizable and enthralling recital of prominent people, great ideas, grandiose epochs and key events, due to that christianity appeared, overgrew and entered into the XXI century in the scales of all planet. Labour of professor Брюса Шелли (1927-2010) became classic. Russian translation is executed on 4th to the edition adjusted by the professor of theology and philosophy Л. Хэтчеттом.The publishing layout of book is stored in the format of PDF A4.