People of the Church
Monks lived in communities called monasteries and nuns lived in convents.
Who lived in monasteries and in convents?
They worked like Missionaries, teach their religion to people who are not believers.
How did monks and nuns help spread Christianity?
1. Patriarchs
2. Archbishops
3. Bishops
4. Priests
How is the hierarchy in the Christian Church?
The separation between the two major churches of Christianit.
What is schism?
They are holy pictures of Jesus, apostles and saints.
What are icons?
In the late A.D. 700s, Italy was invaded. The pope appealed to the Byzantine emperor for help, but the emperor refused. The pope then asked the Franks to help defend Rome. The Franks were a Germanic people that supported the pope as head of the Christian church. The Franks successfully defended Italy against the invaders.
Who were the defenders of Italy and what they were?
Monks spread Christianity to Britain and most of the Anglo-Saxons became Christians of England.
How were they called the people that live in England and became Christians?
An organization with different levels of authority. They used the empire as their model for organizing the church. Like the empire, the church came to be ruled by...
What is a hierarchy and what role model did they used?
1. Use of icons.
2. Authority of the pope.
3. Byzantine emperor’s refusal to help defend Rome.
4. Church and government relationship.
What were the reasons for its schism between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?
The thinker John of Damascus was the leading defender of icons.
Who thinker was the defender of icons?
Their job were to study and pray in their religious communities; run schools and hospitals in towns and villages; help the poor and help spread Christianity.
What were the jobs or duties of the monks and nuns?
Cyrillic Alphabet is used nowadays for people who speak a Slavic languages such as Russian.
Which alphabet is used nowadays by people that speak Slavic languages?
The clergy or church officials were the leaders of the church. The role of the clergy was different from that of the laity, or regular church members. Although women were not allowed to serve in the clergy. Women cared for sick and needy church members.
What is a clergy, a laity and why women didn’t serve in the clergy?
Finally, in a.d. 1054, after centuries of bitterness, the split between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church still exists today.
In what year was the split between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church?
Some people thought icons helped explain Church teachings, while others, felt that they were a form idol worship forbidden by God.
What did people think about icons?
Paula was a Roman widow who helped, in the early A.D. 400s, a scholar named Jerome translate the Christian Bible into Latin.
Who was the best known nun during the time and what did she do?
Cyril and Methodius brought Christianity to the Slavs in Eastern Europe.
Who were the names of the two brothers that brought Christianity in which place and for who?
The 5 leading archbishops are located in Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem.
Where were the 5 patriarchs?
If you didn’t agree with the church, either in Roman Catholic Church or in Eastern Orthodox Church, you were excommunicated and, also, you resulted schism.
What happen if you didn’t agree with the Roman Catholic Church or with the Eastern Orthodox Church?
Officials who removed icons from all the churches by the order of Leo III. Many church leaders disagreed with the order of Leo III. Today, this word refers to someone who criticizes traditional beliefs or practices.
Who were the iconoclasts?
During the time were created the Benedictine and the Basilian rules that said how people, either in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Eastern Orthodox Church, need to live according to their religious communities.
What was the similarity between the Basilian Rule and the Benedictine Rule?
1. Romans begin leaving Britain.
2. Germanic tribes invade Britain.
3. Celts in Britain flee to Ireland
4. Patrick teaches Christianity to the Celts in Ireland.
5. Monks bring Christianity to Anglo-Saxons in Britain.
What were the steps of how Christianity was spread through Britain and Ireland?
As the number of Christians grew, the church had to become more organized to unite its followers. In addition, separate Christian communities began to practice Christianity differently. The early Christians leaders had to clarify and write down their beliefs.
What was one the problems that the hierarchy of the church had at the beginning?
The eastern and western churches also viewed their roles in government differently. In the Byzantine Empire, the emperor controlled both church and government. In the West, the pope claimed he had religious and political authority over all of Europe.
What was the most serious issue that brought the schism between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?
Most Byzantines, many church leaders, and even the pope in Rome disapproved of Emperor Leo's actions. These actions severely damaged the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Over the next century, icons were used once again. Nowadays, they are very important.
What disagreement was one of the reasons why did the relationship of Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church damage it?