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Period: 100 to
Religon ch, 8-18
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110
Saint Ignatius
Saint Ignatius of Antioch, around the year 110, even reffered to the church aqs the Catholic church -
155
Tertullian
Tertullian (155-222), Who developed a vocabulary of terms with which to describe faith. -
300
Anothony of Eygypt
He brought together a group of these solitary hermits to live in community, supporting each other in leading holy lives. -
303
The Great Persecution
This continued until 311 under Diocletian's successor Galerius. -
312
Emperor Constatine
He ruled the Roman empire from 312 to 337. -
313
The Edict of Milan
Created religous tolerance throughout the Roman empire and giveing christains the freedom to worship openly. -
325
Nicaea
To settle the dispute caused by this Arian heresy, the Emperor Constantine summoned all the Bishops of the Church to a councial in the city of Nicaea, in modern day Turkey. -
347
Saint John Chrysostom
Saint John Chrysostom (347-420), a great preacher whose name "Chrysostom" means "Golden Mouth" -
367
Saint Athanasius
Saint Athanasius (296-373), The Bishop of Alexandria, Egypt, we find what seems the first written list of New Testament books. -
431
Ephesus
The council at Ephesus, in modern Turkey, was called in 431 to deal with this heresy. The council condemned Nestorius, affirmed that Mary gave Birth to Jesus Christ, the son of God, and declared that Mary truly Can be called "Mother of God." -
451
Chalcedon
This is considered the greatest of the first four ecumenical councils. -
466
Clovis , King of the Franks
The Franks lived in a Roman province called Gaul, known today as France. -
Jan 1, 1000
Europe was Christian
Most what had been "Barbarian" Europe was Christian. -
Jan 1, 1000
The Holy Land
The Land where Jesus Christ had lived, died, and risen from the dead, including the holy city of Jerusalem- fell into the hands of Muslim conquerors. -
Jan 1, 1090
Bernard of Clairvaux
Founded the Cistercian order. -
Jan 1, 1095
Pope Urban II
He called on all Christain rulers to organize a crusade. -
Jan 1, 1097
Four Major Crusades
There were four major crusade between 1097 and 1204. -
Jan 1, 1099
The First Crusade
The first crusade was the most successful, with the Christian armies takeing control of Jerusalem and surronding the lands. -
Jan 1, 1187
Jerusalem Falls
Jerusalem had fallen again, this time to a great muslim general named Saladin. -
Jan 1, 1204
The Armies of The Fourth Crusade
The Armies of The Fourth Crusade attacked and looted Constantinople. -
Jan 1, 1300
Middle Ages/ Black Plague
The years 1300-1500 A.D. are often called the middle ages. this was a time of disease, disorder, and great change for the church and the world. The Black plague was spreading throughout all of Europe and beyond -
Jan 1, 1400
Spanish Dominicans
Antonio Montesino and Bartolome de las casas, boldly defended the human rights of Americaans native people. -
Jan 1, 1453
The Muslim Turks
They had taken the great christian capital of Constantinopole. -
Jan 1, 1492
Pope Alexander VI
Pope Alexander VI, whose pontificate was from 1492-1503, asked these explorers to evangelize, or proclaim the good news of Christ to people. -
Jan 1, 1529
Muslim Armies
They had conquered all of southeastern europe. -
Jan 1, 1542
Francis Xavier
The Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, arriving in India in 1542, baptized many people in Goa. -
Jan 1, 1545
The council of Trent
The council of trent was in progress. -
Jan 1, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Proved the theory that the Earth revolves around the sun -
Thirty years war
Protestant and catholic armies fought eachother. It ended with trhe peace of Westphalia. -
King Louis XIV
Was an example of a Catholic absolute monarch. He ruled France, then the leading catholic country in the world. -
Royal families of Ctholic Europe
This was the Hapsburgs, who rules Austria, and the Bourbons, who ruled in france. -
Emperor Joseph II
A catholic monarch who ruloed Austria, the second most important catholic country of the time, Interffered in church matters even more than Louis XVI. -
King Louis XVI
He called together the Estates-General, the governing body in France, to deal with his need to raise taxes. -
National Assembly
They renamed themselves the National Assembly- a unified assembly representing all the people in France- and invited the deputies of the other two estates to join them , calling for liberty, equality, and fraternity. -
The National Assembley
They passed a law called Civil Constitution of the Clergy. -
Pope Pius VI
He spoke out condeming the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, and denouncing the National Assembly for all that had happened from the onset of the revalution -
King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Both were overthrown then executed by beheading -
Napoleon
He declared himself emperor of France. -
Napoleon Returns
Napoleon returned to paris with reinforced troops hoping to regain his empire -
Napoleons defeat
He finally got defeated by the allied powers of Europe at Waterloo, Belgium -
Napoleon was exciled
Napoleon was exciled to the South Atlantic island of aSt. Helena. -
Karl Marx
Who taught taught that religon gave people an illusion of a unreal world, dulling their awareness of injustice. -
Pius XI
He refused to recognize the authority of the new Italian goverment in Italy. -
Revolutionaries
They occupied all of the papal territories except the city of Rome and its immediate surrondings. -
United kingdom of Italy
This was proclaimed, with its rulers dreaming of makeing Rome the capitol. -
The Civil War
The Civil War begins. -
The Second Plenary Council
The bishops met in Baltimore at the Second Plenary Council. -
The first vatican council in Rome
From December 1869 to October 1870 Pope Pius IX convenced the First Vatican council in Rome. -
Otto von Bismarck
was a german statesman, suceeded in throwing off Austrian rule and uniting many of these states in a new German Empire. -
The Third Plenary Council
When the bishops gathered at Baltimore for the Third Plenary Council, they voted to establish a nationwide Catholic school system with the goal of haveing every Catholic child in the United States enrolled in a catholic school. -
USA
Ther were now 12 million Catholics in the United States. -
Pius X
He made important contributions to other aspects in the Church teachings. -
Muslim Control
Jerusalem had remained under Muslim control until 1917. -
New Pope
Pope Pius XI his response to the great depression, issued an encyclical in 1931 that was a direct referance to Pope Leo XII's social justice encyclical Rerum Novarum. -
American Catholics
American Catholics began to celebrate the Eucharist in a new way. For centuries , priests had celebrated mass with their backs to the assembly, now they stood faceing the people. Everywhere in the world the mass was celebrated the mass in Latin the universal language of the catholic church. now it is celebrated in the people language. -
Populorum Progressio
Pope John VI issued an encyclcical callled Populorum Progressio, or "On the Development of Peoples." -
New Missal
The Roman Catholic church published new missal. -
Joseph Ratzinger
was apointed archbishop of Munich, Germany. -
Pope Paul VI
He died in 1978. -
Economic Justrice
The Bishops issued Economic Justice for All, a pastoral letter about Catholic social teaching and the American economy. -
Fides et Ratio
Pope John Paul II dealt with a topic that has concerned philosophers since the enlightenment. -
Pope Benedict XVI
He had a speech at world-wide youth day. -
Pope John Paul II
He passed away on this day. -
Pope Pius XII
A newly elected Pope led the church through the horrors of World War II, which took some 40 Million lives. -
Decius
He ruled from 249 to 251. One of the two worst persecutions ahppened under him. He tried to get people to worship him as a god. -
Diocletian
He ruled from 284-305. two of the worst persecutions happened under his rule. Also he wanted to be worshiped as a god. -
Emperor Theodosius I
He made christianity the official religion of the Roman empire. He ruled from 379 to 395. -
Origen
Origen (185-254), Who studied and explained scripture. -
Constantinople
This prompted the Emperor Theodosius I to call a council at Constantinople- modern day Istanbul. There the bishops repeated the teaching of Nicaea and reiterated the truth that the Holy Spirit, like Jesus, is also fully divine. -
Basil the Great
Basil the Great who lived in the eastern part of theRoman Empire, was a great theologian whose writings helped to defeat the Arians at the council of Constantinople in 381. -
Benedict of Nursia
he lived in the western paart of the Roman Empire. he founded a monasttery at Monte Cassino, Italy, around 529. -
Scholastica
Benedict of Nursia, his sister founded a nearby monastery for nuns. -
Cyril
Brought the good news of Jesus Christ to the territory from which many of the invadeing tribes had come. -
Methodius
Brought the good news of Jesus Christ to the territory from which many of the invadeing tribes had come. -
Pope Leo III
Crowned Charlemange, the leader of the Franks, as Holy Roman Emperor.
