1. Take out your GREEN notes from yesterday 2. Sit quietly  GOOD MORNING! 1. Take out your GREEN notes from yesterday 2. Sit quietly 

Using your book and a partner… Answer the Byzantine Review questions on your paper (1-10) When you finish, move on to answering the “Church Divides” questions (1-6)…this is NEW information. Make sure you are reading and answering carefully! We will go over these questions in 40 minutes!

The Great Schism

The Church Divides During the Byzantine Empire, Christianity underwent a dramatic development. The Empire had grown to such an extent again that communication throughout the empire was difficult. Christianity had begun to develop differently in the Western and Eastern Empires. WEST SIDE EAST SIDE

Eastern Christianity 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 Ladder Problems In the Catholic Church, the top of the ladder is the ___________ Next come Bishops, then Cardinals, then Priests and Monks. A Patriarch in the leading Bishop. All church officials are referred to as the Clergy Even the Pope or a Patriarch has to bow to the Emperor, yet an Emperor has to listen to a Pope to receive salvation. This conflict between the Emperors and Popes relationship will cause conflicts for the rest of time. The Pope is located in Rome (West) and the Emperor is located in Constantinople (East)

Problem #1 In 730, Emperor Leo III (east) 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. People responded with riots and the clergy rebelled. In the West, the pope became involved in this eastern dispute and supported the use of icons. In 843 the use of Icons was restored to the eastern churches.

Problem #2 Excommunication- banning someone from the Church and salvation In 1054 matters became worse when the pope and the patriarch excommunicated each other in a dispute over religious doctrine. Christianity officially split between the Roman Catholic Church in the West and the Orthodox Church in the East, this became known as the Great Schism.

Take out your notes from yesterday!!!!! It was a worksheet on the Great Schism!!!!!! We need to get through a little bit of notes and then we will have the Almost There After the Almost There we are watching a movie on the MONGOLS!!!

Orthodox Christianity Orthodox means, “correct in teaching”. As the West and East grew apart, the two traditions competed for converts. Missionaries in the East took their form of Christianity to the Slavs, groups that inhabited the forests north of the Black Sea. But how do you make someone understand something when you don’t speak the same language?

Illuminated Manuscripts Books that are supplemented with art--ornamental designs, fancy capitals, miniature illustrations, etc.

Cyrillic Alphabet Saint Methodius and Saint Cyril worked among the Slavs and invented an alphabet for the Slavic languages. 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 __________. With an alphabet, Slavs would be able to read the Bible in their own tongues.

Francis

Turn paper over… Complete the chart comparing and contrasting the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church