According to the book of Acts, Cornelius (Κορνήλιος) was the first Gentile convert of the early Christian movement, converted and baptized by the apostle Peter (Peter [Apostle]) after the two had come to meet by divine intervention through complementary visions (Acts 10:1–11:18; 15:6–11; Hengel & Schwemer, 2019). Cornelius was a Roman centurion (ἑκατοντάρχης, a military leader over a division of 100 soldiers), in the early 40s CE stationed i…