Warm-up0What is the Byzantine Empire?0What is the Capital of the Byzantine

Empire?0What is Justinian most known for during

his rule?

The Great SchismMs. Altman

The Church Divides

0During the Byzantine Empire, Christianity underwent a dramatic development.

0The Empire had grown to such an extent again that communication throughout the empire was difficult.

0Christianity had begun to develop differently in the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.

Eastern Christianity0 In the East, Christianity had built its heritage on the

works of early Church fathers, they would write and describe how monks and Christians should behave.

Social Hierarchy Problems 0 In the Catholic Church, the top of the Hierarchy is the

___________0 Next come Bishops, then Cardinals, then Priests and

Monks.0 A Patriarch in the leading Bishop. 0 All church officials are referred to as the Clergy0 Even the Pope or a Patriarch has to bow to the Emperor,

yet an Emperor has to listen to a Pope to receive salvation.

0 This conflict between the Emperors and Popes relationship will cause conflicts for the rest of time.

Problem #1

0 In 730, Emperor Leo III banned the use of icons, religious images used by the Eastern Christians to aid their devotions. The emperor viewed the use of icons as idol worship.

0People responded with riots and the clergy rebelled. 0 In the West, the pope became involved in this eastern

dispute and supported the use of icons. 0 In 843 the use of Icons was restored to the eastern

churches.

Problem #2

0Excommunication- banning someone from the Church and salvation

0 In 1054 matters became worse when the pope and the patriarch excommunicated each other in a dispute over religious doctrine.

0Christianity officially split between the Roman Catholic Church in the West and the Orthodox Church in the East, this became known as the Great Schism.

Orthodox Christianity0 Orthodox means, “correct in

teaching”.

0 As the West and East grew apart, the two traditions competed for converts.

0 Missionaries in the East took their form of Christianity to the Slavs, groups that inhabited the forests north of the Black Sea.

0 But how do you make someone understand something when you don’t speak the same language?

Illuminated Manuscripts

Cyrillic Alphabet0 Saint Methodius and Saint Cyril

worked among the Slavs and invented an alphabet for the Slavic languages.

0 This Cyrillic Alphabet is the alphabet used to write Bibles for the Orthodox Church, this is the first time the Bible is written in another language other than __________.

0 With an alphabet, Slavs would be able to read the Bible in their own tongues.