Important Dates
Edict of Milan happened in __________ AD
What is AD 313?
This heretical belief claims that Jesus is the highest of all created beings and therefore denies the Trinity.
What is Arianism?
This was the official proclamation that legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire.
What is the Edict of Milan?
____________________ was the Emperor to first legalize Christianity and converted to it himself
Who is Emperor Constantine the Great?
This Saint was the founder of Western Monasticism.
Who was Saint Benedict of Nursia?
Council of Nicaea happened in _________ AD
What is AD 325?
______________ was the heresy that denied original sin and believed one could gain salvation without grace (and hence without the Church and the sacraments) but by one's own will and efforts.
What is Pelagianism?
The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire was this city in Thrace.
What is Constantinople?
____________________ was the Emperor who built the Coliseum and under whom the Temple ofJerusalem was destroyed during one of the Roman-Jewish Wars
Who is Titus (Titus Flavius Vespasianus)?
. This man was the Frankish King who converted to Christianity.
Who is Clovis I
This date marks the end of the Hellenistic Era and the Beginning of the Pax Romana.
What is 31 BC?
This is the name of the heresy that believed that Christ had two persons, a human person and a divine person, and said that consequently Mary was not the Mother of God
What is Nestorianism?
The Eastern Roman Empire is eventually called this.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Under this Roman Emperor the Roman Empire was at its most peaceful point in Roman History.
Who is Antoninus Pius (Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius)?
____________________ was the name of the legendary British king who invited theaforementioned Germanic barbarians to Britain to fight off the Picts of the north ... but the result wasthe Germanic tribes taking over most of Britain.
Who is Vortigern?
The Pax Romana ended in __________ AD
What is AD 180?
In this heresy it is believed that the sacraments were only valid if the minister was free from mortal sin.
What is Donatism?
The _____________________ were the first Germanic tribe to convert to Christianity.
Who are the Visigoths?
____________________ was the Emperor under whom the Roman Empire grew to its largest territorialextent. He was victorious in the Dacian Wars (which a famous column in Rome commemorates) and built the longest bridge for a thousand years that the world had ever built
Who is Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus)?
These are the three Evangelical Counsels, which are vows required for all people in the religious life.
Muhammad came to Medina in _________ AD
What is AD 622?
_________________ was the heresy that believed that Christ only had one will, rather than a divine will and a human will.
What is Monothelitism?
The _____________________ dynasty is the Frankish ruling family founded by Clovis
What is the Merovingian dynasty?
____________________ was the Emperor who made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire.
Who is Emperor Theodosius I?
This was the name of the church built by Justinian in Byzantium, which remained the largest church in the world for about a thousand years.
What is the Hagia Sophia (Justinian’s Monumental Church)?