“?Christus is a Greek term not Latin — the Hebrew term is Mashiah. The terms in English are synonymous: Christ=Messiah. However, the first term the “Christians” were called anything was named after Christus
Finally, Pope Damasus did not do this name change as the term originates from the Greek during Apostolic times”
Boy! I’m just wrong about everything, aren’t I?!
Hardly -- you just made a few slips in this -- the hammeshiah threw me off -- it looks exactly like Persian. But the word Christus is really old -- from Apostolic times and it is in Greek which was the lingua Franca (along with Aramaic) of the Middle East during the time of Jesus Christ and the apostles.