Basic Knowledge
What do B.C. and A.D mean?
What is B.C. means before Christ, and A.D. means Anno Domini, or the Year of the Lord?
Name three important events of Christ.
What are
1. the virgin birth
2. the hidden life (first 30 years)
3. the Baptism in the Jordan
What vocab word goes to this term?
a follower or student of another
What is a Disciple?
List the four Gospels that tell the life of Christ?
Who are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
What is the event Christians call the birthday of the Church?
What is Pentecost?
What vocab word goes to this term?
the name given to jesus’ 12 disciples after the Pentecost; from a Greek word meaning messenger
What is an Apostle?
Who was the leader of the apostles to whom Jesus gave the keys to the kingdom?
Who is St. Peter?
What Church council taught that the Son of God is equal to the Father?
What is the Council of Nicea
What Mediterranean city was called the New Rome?
What is Constantinople?
Who was Constantine? Why is he important to the history of the Church?
Who is Constantine was a Roman emperor who converted to the Christian Faith?
(His is important for legalizing the Church in 313 with the Edict of Milan - the first step in the Church’s conquest of the Roman Empire. He also called the Council of Nicea)
In what city were Jesus’ followers first called Christians?
Where is Antioch?
What is Didache?
What is an old Christian writing outside the New Testament that contains teachings on Church rules and moral guidelines. It was written around A.D. 60?