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Monday 9/03
• Objective:
– Students will analyze why the Christian
church split
• Homework
– Rise and Fall of Rome Timeline
• 1/3/5- due Thursday( Rome test Thursday)
• 4/6- due Friday (Rome test Friday)
• Do now:
1. Why did Constantine pick Constantinople
to be the spot of his new capital?
2. Set up paper for Cornell Notes
Similarities and
Differences
The east dominates
What was the problem?
• The Catholic (west) and Orthodox (east)
argued over the following issues
1. Icons
2. Who was in charge?
– Pope (west) vs. Emperor (east)
What is an Icon?
• Religious images that can be
prayed to.
– Statue of the Virgin Mary
– Jesus Christ on the cross
• They appear in several forms; in mural
painting, mosaic and most typically painted on
small wooded panels.
The fight over Icons
• Orthodox (East)
• Catholic (West)
– Thought it was
– Thought that icons
wrong to worship
brought you closer
something that
to the idea/person
was man- made.
– Praying to a statue
Worship should
of Jesus brought
only be made to
you closer to him
God.
How did the icon fight begin?
• In 730, Byzantine Emperor Leo III
banned the use of icons , This
Byzantine emperor viewed the use of
icons as idol worship.
How does the west react?
• One pope even ordered the
excommunication of a Byzantine
emperor—that is, he said the emperor
was not a Christian
The Great Schism
• In 1054 the Christian church split
into 2 churches forever. In the West;
the Roman Catholic (universal)
Church. In the East; the Eastern
Orthodox (correct belief) Church.
So what’s the difference?
The West - Roman
Catholic Church
• Mass was in Latin
• Pope was Supreme head of Church in the
West - above any political ruler
• Priests could NOT marry
• Religious icons of martyrs and saints to
be respected
• Only Pope and Bishops could interpret
the scriptures.
The POPE is the
leader of the WESTERN
Roman Catholic Church.
The East- Orthodox Church
• “Mass” was in Greek - so everyone could
understand.
– Monks who did missionary work often
converted it into the language of the people
they were trying to convert
• The Byzantine Emperor was superior to
religious leader(patriarch) of
Constantinople.
• Priests could marry
• Icons not allowed
•
The leader of the EASTERN
Orthodox Church is
the “PATRIARCH”.