Timeline for the Apostle Paul’s Life

By
Taylor Marshall
Published: 31 July 2009 2:49 PM CDT
Timeline for the Apostle Paul’s Life

Below is the traditional Catholic dating of Paul’s life.

  • A.D. 8 Birth of Paul
  • 30 Jesus Christ rises from the dead
  • 33 Paul’s conversion to Christ on the road to Damascus
  • 33-36 Paul in Arabia & Damascus for three years (Gal 1:18)
  • 36 Paul goes with Barnabas and visits Peter and James in Jerusalem
  • 42-43 James the Greater martyred; Apostles flee Jerusalem
  • 47-48 Paul’s First Missionary Journey
  • 49-50 Jerusalem Council
  • 49/50-52 Paul’s Second Missionary Journey
  • 54/55 Paul writes Galatians
  • 56-58 Paul’s Third Missionary Journey
  • 57-58 Paul writes 1 & 2 Corinthians, Romans
  • 58-60 Paul Imprisoned in Caesarea
  • 60-61 Paul under house arrest at Rome (Paul writes Philippians, Philemon, Colossians, Ephesians)
  • 61/62 Paul freed in Rome
  • 62-65 The so-called “Last Missionary Journey”  including Ephesus and Crete (1 Timothy, Titus, and Hebrews composed)
  • 67 Paul writes 2 Timothy with the assistance of Luke and Paul martyred in Rome under Emperor Nero
  • 70 Jerusalem destroyed by Roman legions

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About the Author

Taylor was an Episcopal priest in Fort Worth, Texas before being received into the Catholic Church by Bishop Kevin Vann of Fort Worth. Taylor was also formerly the Assistant Director of the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., located three blocks north of the White House, where he lectured regularly. He was served under Archbishop John J. Myers and Msgr. William Stetson for the Pastoral Provision of John Paul II, the canonical structure by which Anglican clergy are received into the Catholic Church and then go on to pursue Holy Orders in the Catholic Church. He is a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary (M.A.R. Theology), Nashotah Theological House (Certificate in Anglican Studies), and University of Dallas (M.A. Philosophy). He is currently a Ph.D. student in Philosophy at the University of Dallas where he studies the Natural Law theory of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae Ia Iaa qq. 94-108). Taylor and his wife live in Dallas, Texas with their five children. He is the author of The Catholic Perspective on Paul (forthcoming). Visit his personal site at: www.taylormarshall.com Taylor is also the Editor of Christian and American at: www.christianandamerican.com.