Saints
Churches
Vocabulary
Icons
Grab-bag
100
The first canonized Indian Saint
Who is St. Alphonsa?
100
The church thought to be founded by St. Thomas
What is the Syro-Malabar or Syro-Malankar church?
100
Another name for Confirmation
What is Chrismation?
100
The process by which an icon is created.
What is icon writing?
100
The names of the brother saints who evangelized the Slavs
Who are Cyril and Methodius?
200
Spent many years in a pit - first bishop of Armenia
Who is Gregory the Illuminator?
200
The only Eastern Catholic church that never split from the Latin Catholic Church.
What is the Maronite Church?
200
Another name for Mass used in the Eastern Churches
What is Divine Liturgy (or Qurbana)?
200
The name of the heresy of the icon-smashers
What is Iconoclasm?
200
The saint who punched Arius in the nose at the Council of Nicea
Who is St. Nicholas
300
Bishop of Alexandria. Was exiled at least 5 times for opposing the Arian heresy which denied the divinity of Christ.
Who is Athanasius?
300
The main patriarchate currently located in Turkey
What is Constantinople?
300
Another name for a diocese in the Eastern Churches
What is eparchy?
300
Another name for an icon screen.
What is iconostasis?
300
The city where the name "Christian" was first used.
What is Antioch?
400
Considered to the the first evangelist to Egypt and founder of the Church of Alexandria.
Who is St. Mark?
400
The names of the two African based Eastern Catholic Churches
What is Coptic and Ethiopian?
400
Another name for the Anaphora
What is Eucharistic Prayer?
400
Name for an icon of Christ in Judgment
What is Pantrocrator?
400
The council that declared that Mary was the "Mother of God" or Theotokos
What is Ephesus?
500
Is considered to be the founder of the Maronite Church.
Who is St. Maron?
500
The church of the parish we visited in Indianapolis
What is St. Athanasius (Ruthenian Byzantine)?
500
The heresy that proclaimed that Christ had only one nature
What is Mono-Physite
500
the first iconographer
Who is Saint Luke?
500
Apostles who founded the church in Armenia
Who are Sts. Jude and Batholomew?
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