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Tenth Century
Cultural Renaissance In the East, in the tenth century, there was a general continuation of the cultural renaissance of the ninth…
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Ninth Century
End of the Icon Debate Following the council of 787 at which the veneration of the holy icons was formally defended in…
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Eighth Century
The Icon Debate In the eighth century the Isaurian rulers Leo III (717-741) and Constantine V (741-775) in the East attempted to…
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Seventh Century
Dionysius the Areopagite The theological writings which appeared in the sixth century under the name of Dionysius the Areopagite were generally accepted…
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Sixth Century
Emperor Justinian I and the Monophysites The sixth century of Orthodox Church history in the East was dominated by the person and…
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Fifth Century
Inner Struggles At the beginning of the fifth century when Alexandria and Constantinople were feuding over their respective positions in the Church…
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Fourth Century
Constantine The fourth century began with the greatest persecution ever waged against the early Church, that of the emperor Diocletian. The longest…
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Third Century
The Christian Church lived in relative peace from the death of Marcus Aurelius (185) to the time of the Emperor Decius (249). When…
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Second Century
The Persecutions The second century saw the further development of the Christian faith, and the greater persecution of the Church by the…
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First Century
The first century of the Christian era begins with the birth of Jesus Christ from the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem, Christ lived, died,…