Important People
This person is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is the Pope?
This term refers to official religious teachings or beliefs.
What is Doctrine?
To treat someone cruelly or unfairly because of their beliefs.
What is Persecute?
A place where monks live, pray, and work.
What is a Monastery?
A religious image or painting used in worship.
What is an Icon?
These early Christian leaders helped set up churches and spread the message of Jesus.
Who are the Apostles?
A religious story that teaches a moral or lesson.
What is a Parable?
A major split or division within a church or religion.
What is a Schism?
Regular church members who are not clergy.
Who is the Laity?
Religious leaders, such as priests, who perform services in a church.
Who is the Clergy?
A person who follows or learns from a religious leader.
Who is a Disciple?
The message of Jesus’ life and teachings, also the name of the first four books of the New Testament.
What is the Gospel?
To officially remove someone from the church because of their actions or beliefs.
What is Excommunicate?
A system where people or groups are ranked at different levels of power or importance.
What is a Hierarchy?
A person chosen by God to be a leader or savior.
Who is the Messiah?
Someone who dies or suffers greatly for their religious beliefs.
Who is a Martyr?
Being saved from sin and allowed to enter heaven.
What is Salvation?
A person who opposes and destroys religious images.
What is an Iconoclast?
The event when Jesus came back to life after death.
What is the Resurrection?
What was the name of the alphabet created to help Slavic people read the Bible?
What is the Cyrillic Alphabet?
Who was the first Roman emperor to allow Christianity?
Who is Constantine?
What was the main language used in the Eastern Orthodox Church?
What is Greek?
Who was the Roman emperor that made Christianity the official religion?
Who is Theodosius?
What was destroyed when the Romans crushed the Jewish rebellion?
What is the Jewish temple in Jerusalem?
Who was crowned Roman Emperor by the pope, angering the Byzantines?
Who is Charlemagne?