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What Church chose the four gospels in the New Testament?

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There were two main branches of Christianity at the time the four New Testament gospels were chosen - the Gnostics and those who are sometimes now referred to as 'Catholic-Orthodox' Christians, since this was long before the Great Schism of 1054. The Gnostics did not choose the four gospels we now know, preferring other gospels. Wihin Catholic-Orthodox Christianity, Irenaeus proposed that there be exactly four gospels, just as there are four corners to the earth and there are four winds, and that they were Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Irenaeus was from the Greek-speaking east, but had become bishop of Lyons, so both East and West can lay claim to choosing the four gospels.

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