Who Came First, St Patrick or Jesus?

Patrick came several hundred years after Jesus, but he wasn't a Roman Catholic as such. What we now call the Roman Catholic Church and its popes already existed by Patrick's time (385-461 A.D.), but before 430 A.D. the type of Christianity which existed peripherally in Ireland was totally independent of Rome. In 430 A.D. Rome sent a guy called Palladius to Ireland to be its first Rome-approved bishop, but he doesn't appear to have made a very big splash. Over the water in Britain, where Patrick came from, what we now clumsily refer to as Celtic Christianity was the Christianity of the day, with Roman Catholic-style Christianity not arriving there until much later in 597 A.D. when St Augustine first brought it to Kent in South East England. (Not until the Synod of Whitby in 664 A.D. did Roman Catholicism get the upper hand in England.) So it's likely that St Patrick's idea of Christianity would've differed to a certain extent from the Roman type which Palladius had attempted to introduce to Ireland in 430 A.D., though not in any really fundamental ways. Patrick would certainly have been preaching the Christian message from the New Testament writings and yes, he was born long after Jesus or there'd have been no Christianity to preach.

St. Patrick was about 400 years after Jesus.

The ROMAN Catholic Church had not yet split away from the Catholic (meaning world-wide) Church at that time, so there was a Catholic Church, but not the present organization with that name.

St. Patrick: 385 -- 461 AD.

Christ Jesus of Nazareth is eternal. He has always been. He is the one who was, is, and always will be! Amen.

Jesus predates Patrick. Patrick could hardly have become a Christian if Jesus's little Jewish cult, which metamorphosed into Christianity, hadn't preceded him.

By the time Patrick lived, the early Catholic Church and the Papacy were already established. Patrick lived in the 5th century. Jesus lived in the 1st.

JESUS.

There's a gay joke in there somewhere....

Jesus was about 2000 years ago, St. Patrick about 1500.

idk, but regardless of who came first St Patrick cant save nobody's soul. Christ and the disciples taught from the Old Testament.

Both are imaginary.