When in Rome
The group blamed for the Rome fire.
Who are Christians?
Inconsistent in severity over the first 300 years of Christianity within the Roman Empire.
What was the persecution of Christians?
What Constantine saw that led him to fight for the Christian God.
What is a cross in the sky?
The definition of a heresy.
What is a belief, attitude, or teaching that is contrary to revealed truth and the Church’s doctrine?
The name of any heresy besides Arianism.
What is Gnosticism, Pelagianism, Apollinarianism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism, or Docetism?
The Emperor when Rome burned (Nero, Diocletian, Constantine).
Who is Nero?
The Emperor who ordered the worst persecution of Christians (Nero, Diocletian, Constantine).
Who is Diocletian?
When and where Constantine decided to get Baptized.
Where is Constantine's deathbed?
The Church Father and Doctor of the Church who defended the Church against Heresy
Who is Augustine?
This person slapped Arius.
Who is St. Nicholas (Santa Claus)?
The Emperor who split Rome into 4 (Nero, Diocletian, Constantine)
Who is Emperor Diocletian?
Someone who dies for their religious faith.
What is a martyr?
This event Constantine called for to settle the Arian dispute.
What is the Council of Nicaea?
What Christians across the world say every Sunday to reject Arianism.
What is the Nicene Creed?
What Fr. Doug calls the single sentence you want people to remember from a homily.
The name given to the Roman Empire when it was split into four regions.
What is the Tetrarchy?
Why is the execution of the first Apostles, like St. Peter and St. Paul, used to argue that the first Christians truly believed that Jesus was God and was raised from the dead?
They would not have willingly been killed for something that they knew was a lie.
Which region of Rome Constantine was emperor before he unified the Empire.
Where is the Western Empire?
The teachings of Arius.
Jesus was a created being, lesser than the Father.
The part of Mass where the bread and wine turn into the Body and Blood.
What is the Consecration?
A reason the Emperor split Rome into 4 regions.
What is Civil War/Invasion/Economic Collapse?
What is crucified upside down?
The order Constantine declared making Christianity legal.
What is the Edict of Milan?
The difference between homoiousios and homoousios. (Give me the gist)
Homoiousios means of SIMILAR substance. Homoousios means of the SAME substance. In reference to Jesus's relationship to the Father.
The Saint and Martyr from El Salvador in the 1980s who was assassinated while saying Mass.
Who is St. Oscar Romero?