1. Warm-up 0 What is the Byzantine Empire? 0 What is the Capital of the Byzantine Empire? 0 What is Justinian most known for during his rule?

2. The Great Schism Ms. Altman

3. The Church Divides 0 During the Byzantine Empire, Christianity underwent a dramatic development. 0 The Empire had grown to such an extent again that communication throughout the empire was difficult. 0 Christianity had begun to develop differently in the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.

4. Eastern Christianity 0 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.

5. 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 Clergy 0 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.

6. 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. 0 People 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.

7. Problem #2 0 Excommunication- 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. 0 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.

8. Orthodox Christianity 0 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?

9. Illuminated Manuscripts

10. Cyrillic Alphabet 0 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.