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Writers of Importance who extended the Tradition of the Apostles. Of two types:
Greek from the east whose primary language was Greek and wrote in Greek.
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Constantine and Licinius decree for the toleration of religions
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First legal Church in the Roman Empire. It is the cathedral of Rome and is often called the "mother of all Churches"
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Constantine gives the land of the Laterani Palace to the Bishop of Rome and builds him a cathedral --- the first legal church in the roman Empire. It is the cathedral of Rome and is referred in Catholicism as the "mother of all churches".
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Church Council that condemned Arianism, set a common date of Easter (first Sunday after the first full moon of the spring equinox after Passover, Nicene Creed, and canon law.
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priest of Alexandria was the creator of Arianism which stated that the Logos was born of the Father as the first act of creation. Condemned at the Synod of Alexandria and again at the Council of Nicaea in 325
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Emperor, Made Christianity legal
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bishop of Constantinople, chief proponent of Arianism after Council of Nicaea. He was a good friend with Constantine's sister and got her to protect the Arians. He ordained and sent Ufilius to convert the barbarians in Germania. He baptized Constantine in 337 an Arian as Constantine lay dying.
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lived as a hermit in Egypt and eventually comes to be known as the father of monasticism. He accepts a few disciples to live around him
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Bishop of Portiers in Gaul. He was a pastoral bishop who wrote on the truth of the faith and founded monasteries.
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Bishop of Alexandria who was the chief opponent of Arianism. At the time of the council he was a deacon. Shortly afterwards he was ordained a bishop. He is exiled twice by successors of Constantine who at the behest of the Arians tried to get him on some trumped up charges. He dies on his own diocese in 373.
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Bishop of Caesarae one of the Cappadocian Fathers who wrote on the Trinity and who also wrote a rule for monks used primarily in the east.
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Church Council called by the emperor Theodosius. Among the issues it dealt with were ARIANISM and MACEDONIANISM: a heresy which denies the divinity of the Holy Spirit. Created the creed today recited in the Church
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Patriarchs are important bishops usually given territorial authority over an area of bishops and archbishops. In the early Church there were three main patriarchs:Rome, Alexandria and Antioch. In 381 the Council of Constantinople added Constantinople as a fourth and gave it priority over Alexandria and Antioch. This didn't sit too well with Rome.
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Arian bishop ordained by Eusbius of Nicomedia, he was sent to convert the Goths
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One of the Cappadocian Fathers and good friend of Basil the Great
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Bishop of Nyssa and Constantinople. He was one of the Cappadocian Fathers
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Governor of Milan who was elected bishop and became a great pastoral bishop and theologian. He was also the mentor to St. Augustine who he baptized c. 387
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Hungarian born Roman officer who at Tours in Gaul had an experience of the poor Christ. This caused him to leave the army and to begin a life as a monk. He later was name bishop of Tours.
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Feudalism conventionally denotes the type of society and the political system originating in western and central Europe and dominant there during the greater part of the Middle Ages.
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Archbishop of Constantinople his name "Chrysostom" means, "golden tongue" for his eloquence.
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priest who translated the Bible into Latin called the Vulgate. He also wrote on a number of subjects
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Bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa. He was a tremendous scholar as well as a pastoral leader of the Church. One of the Latin Fathers he wrote extensively on many subjects. He died in 430 as the barbarians were literally at the gates of the city of Hippo.
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1.Nestorianism:
2.Nicene Creed: Declaration that those who stray from the Creed are in heresy.
3.Excommunication: Punishment one brings on oneself by straying from the faith in matters of doctrine.
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Monk who traveled to Rome and then was asked by the pope to found monasteries in Gaul.
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Monophysitism: denies the two natures of Christ that is both human and divine. The Monophysites said that Christ had one nature divine.
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Leader of a group from the steppes in the east. He attacked western Europe and met his match in a bishop of Rome named Leo
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Bishop of Rome who wrote extensively on the Trinity. He also was the first to make a serious case for the role of the Bishop of Rome as successor of St. Peter. He saved Rome from being plundered by Attila.
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In 476 the last roman Emperor Romulus Augustus was deposed by the barbarian chieftain Odaecer
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Barbarian warlord and tribal leader who unites Frankish tribes into a unified confederation and also converts to Christianity through the efforts of his wife Clotilde ( 475-545)
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His real name is Mercurius. On being elected pope, he becomes the first Bishop of Rome to use a regnal name being called John II.
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Patriarchial Basilica of the Byzantine (Constantinople) Orthodox Church from 537- 1453. From 1453 to 1931, it served as an imperial mosque after the fall of Constantinople.
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Caesarpapism is a period when the Eastern Emperor forced the western Church to submit to its authority by the Emperor giving his blessing to the man who was elected Bishop of Rome.
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Father of western monasticism, he wrote a rule that balanced a life in community or prayer (ora) and work (labora). He big monastery was at Monte Cassino and his twin sister Scholastica also founded women's monasteries that used his rule.
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Repudiated three writers as Nestorians including one of Fr. Joe's favorite people Theodore of Mopsuestia
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An Emperor of the East who reigned 527-565 who tried to reunite the empire. He also commissioned and built the Hagia Sophia
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Bishop of Rome who sent missionaries (usually Benedictine monks-- having been one himself) to evangelize the barbarian tribes.
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Great prophet of Islam. He received the revelations that led to the formation of the religious ideals and practices. Originally from Mecca he was forced to moved to Medina. Islam only spreads far and wide after his death.
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Damascus and Antioch in 636 and 637
Jerusalem 638
Alexandria 642
Crossed into Spain in 711
Defeat of Islamic forces at Constantinople by Leo Isaurian in 717
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Bishop of Seville in Spain who was often considered the last of the western Fathers of the Church
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Monothelitism: denies that Jesus has two wills: human and divine which match his 2 natures: human and divine. The Council condemns this and says the two wills are essential to the two natures.
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Remembered most for the Battle of Tours in 732 where he pushed the Islamic forces into Iberia (Spain) and thus helped to crush the Islamic move into Europe.
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The bishop of Rome makes an alliance with the Frankish kings, specifically Pepin II and then begins the break with the Eastern Emperor. This alliance provides the pope with protection and gives him the "donation of Pepin" which become the Papal States. He refused at his election to wait for the approval of the Byzantine Emperor.
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Under Stephen III -- Bishop of Rome --- declares that the office of the Bishop of Rome should be elected from deacons and cardinal priests of Rome.
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Iconoclasm and relics
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Ruler of the Franks who was crowned by Pope Leo III as the Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day 800 in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. This begin the definitive separation of the east and the west
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Bishop of Rome who for a variety of reasons crowns Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor on December 25, 800 at St. Peter Basilica in Rome. The event is significant especially for the fact that the pope crowns the Emperor and gives him a title showing that ultimately he is over the Emperor.
