Where the Apostles began to spread the faith?

A:In his epistles, Paul describes Peter as one of the three pillars of the Jerusalem Church, so presumably Peter spent most of his years as a Christian in Jerusalem. In Galatians 2:11, Paul talks of Peter travelling to Antioch, so it seems likely that Peter preached from time to time in Syria and neighbouring cities, probably to Jews of the diaspora.

A later Christian tradition says that Peter finally went to Rome, where he was executed. However, there is no suggestion in Paul's Epistle to the Romans (dated around 60 CE) that he expected to find Peter in Rome. Clement of Rome, who ought to have known if Peter had been in Rome only about thirty years earlier, seems unaware that Peter either came to Rome or was executed there (1 Clement).