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John"s Gospel is written
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Saint Ignatious
Saint Ignatious of Antioch first refered to the Church as the Catholic Church. -
Period: 155 to 222
Tertulliam (doctor of the church)
developed a vocabulary of terms with which to describe the faith. -
300
Anthony of Eygpt
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303
"Great Persecution" begins
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311
"Great Persecution" ends
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312
Constantine
He became emperor after winning the Battle of Milvian Bridge. He thought he won because he had crosses on his banners, which was good for the Christians. 313- The Edict of Milan issued- Granted religious tolerance to the Christians, giving them the freedom to worship openly. Made Rome an official Christian city. Build a basilica over the tomb of St. Peter. Gave government buildings to Christians. Declared Sunday a government holiday as well as Easter and Christmas. Restored ho -
Period: 312 to 337
Consantine rules as Emeror
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313
Edict of Milan is issued
The Edict of Milan grated religious tolerance throughout the the Roman Empire and giving Christians the freedom to worship openly. -
325
The first ecumenical council; Council of Nicaea
Consatine summoned all of the bishops of the church, to settle the disbute caused by Arias' heresy. More than two hundred bishops attended this concil, -
Period: 347 to 407
St. John Chrysostom (dotor of the church)
a great preacher whose name means "golden mouthed" -
Period: 347 to 420
Saint Jerome (doctor of the church)
translated the bible in tho Latin -
367
Saint Athanasius writes the list of New Testement books
Saint Athanasius was the Bishop of Alexandra, Egypt. -
431
Council of Ephesus
Dicussed about a hereicy started by Nestorious. It affirmed that Mary did in fact gave birth to the Son of God. -
431
Nestorious
He claimed that Jesus was actually two people so Mary should not be called the mother of God, because she is the mother of the human Jesus. -
450
Pope Gregory the Great
Reached out to the pagan tribes and began the work of their conversion Made treaties with the leaders and sent Christians missionaries to their homelands Helped reform the church by contributing to cannon law, a group of laws that would be used to govern the Church and good order in ecclesial, or Church governance. Developed the Gregorian Sacramentary – a book that would guide the celebration of Mass and the sacraments. Associated with the beginning of church music, to support this -
451
Council at Chalcedon
The greatest of the first four ecumenical councils. Discussed whether Mary was to be called "the Mother of God" -
466
Clovis, King of the Franks
Lived in a providence called Gaul He converted to Christianity and laid the foundation for a new Christian empire in the west. -
Jan 10, 1072
Gregory VII was elected as pope
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Jan 13, 1090
Bernard of Clairvaux
Lead a demanding reform Founded the Cistercian order His monks followed an extremely strict rule of prayer, manual labor, and simple living. -
Jan 1, 1095
Pope Urban II called on all Christan rules to organize a Crusade
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Jan 1, 1099
The first of four crusades
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Jan 1, 1187
Jerusalem fell again
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Jan 1, 1204
Armies of the fourth crusade attack and loot Consatantinople
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Jan 13, 1215
Pope Innocent III
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Jan 13, 1231
Pope Gregory IX
He set up an offical court called the Inquisition- a court that investigated people who were accused of heresy. -
Jan 1, 1252
Pope Innocent IV
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Jan 1, 1305
Pope Clement V ected as Pope
Clement V liveed in Avignon, a small city in southeastern France. He mostly elected French cardinal, that voted for more Freanch Popes. He harmed the church by placing the church under control of the French. -
Jan 1, 1377
Pope Gregory XI moved he papacy back to Rome
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Dec 10, 1380
The Great Schism of the West
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Jan 1, 1409
Urban VI was voted as Pope
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Dec 10, 1409
Alexander V. was elected Pope
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Dec 10, 1414
Holy Roman Pope Emperor Sigismund calls a council in which the Church met.
In Constance, Switzerland. The council dicided that all the Popes should be set aside. -
Dec 10, 1417
Pope Martin V was elected
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Jan 1, 1450
Printing press invented
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Jan 15, 1474
Spanish Dominican Bartolome de las Casas
A Christan misssionary who boldly defended the human rights of America's native people. -
Jan 10, 1483
Martin Luther
He was an Augustinian priest. He wrote the 95 Theses. He also started the Protestant Reformation, after the Pope wouldn't listen to he opinion on reforms. -
Jan 1, 1484
Huldrych Zwingli
rejected the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and wanted people to represent Scripture themselves. -
Jan 1, 1492
Pope Alexander VI
He asked explorers to evangelize, or proclaim the good news of Christ to people eveywere -
Jan 1, 1492
The first voyage of Christopher Columbis
He as well as other Spanish explorations led to the Caribbean and the Americas. They expanded the Churchs' teachings. -
Jan 13, 1493
King Henry VII
When Henry could not have his marrage annuled he formed the Church of England. -
Jan 13, 1497
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
Launched a Spanish Inquisition. -
Nov 28, 1500
Muslim conquered Jerusalem
and the places were Jesus had lived, died, and risen from the dead. -
Oct 31, 1517
The 95 Theses
Martin Luther nails his 95 theses to the door of a church in the German city of Wittenberg. -
Jan 10, 1520
Matin Luther is Excommunicated by Pope Leo X
He is excommunicated because he started the Protestant Reformation. He rejected Latin Mass, ordained priesthood, monastic life, and most of the sacraments. -
Jan 15, 1530
Spanish Dominican Antonio Montesino
A Christan misssionary who boldly defended the human rights of America's native people. -
Jan 13, 1533
John Calvin
He believed in predestination- a false doctrine that states that God has already chosen if you are going to heaven or hell. -
Jan 15, 1542
Francis Xavier
A Jesuit missionary who baptized many in Goa, India, Japan, and Vietnam. -
Jan 13, 1545
The Council of Trent
Had three sessions under three diferent popes Paul III, Julius III, and Pius IV. It affirmed that there were three sacraments, the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, and Scripture and Tradition, and many more. -
Jan 10, 1547
Emperor Charles V fights Lutheran Princes
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Jan 1, 1565
Spaniards founded the first Catholic settlement in North America
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Jan 1, 1566
St. Charles Borromeo creates the Catechism
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B y this time there were millions of Christans in the "New World"
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French Catholic missionaries also came to the New World
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Thirty Years' War
Conflicts in which Protestant and Catholic armies, with each group fighting to defent its beliefs. It ended with The Peace of Westphalia. -
Pilgrims settled in Massachusetts
Pilgrims settled in Massachusetts seeking religious freedom. -
Pope Gregory XV
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George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore
He asked King Charles I for permission to establish a colony where English Catholics could worship freely. The king granted his permission. -
A group of settlers set sail across the Atlanic Ocean
These settlers were of the Catholic and Protestant faithes. They came in two ships, the Ark, and the Dove. They named their settlement Mary's land after Queen Henrietta Maria. -
Protestants had gained power and started persecuting Catholics
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Pennsylvania is founded
Its founder was William Penn. Pennsylvania was a place of refuge for not only Quakers, but for Amish, Mennonites, and Catholics. -
King Louis XIV
King Louis was an example of an "absolute monarch" An absoule monarch gained complete, or absolute, power over ALL aspects of the lives of their people. In 1682 he had French bishops sign The Gallican Articles. The Gallican Articals enabled him to rule the French Church in France as if he was more powerful than the pope. -
Portugal was the first to expell Jesuits from their teritory
They did this because the Jesuits were defending the lives of native people agiamst slave traders and dishonest colonists. -
Pope Clement issued a degree suppressing the Jesuits in every Catholic country in the world
They did this because the Jesuits were defending the lives of native people agiamst slave traders and dishonest colonists. -
The Declaration of Independence was signed
Many Catholics lived in Pennsylvania, and Maryland. -
Emperor Joseph II
He was an example of an "absolute monarch" An absoule monarch gained complete, or absolute, power over ALL aspects of the lives of their people. He rule Austria, the second most important Catholic country of the time. He abolished monasteries and put the state in charge of seminaries. He didn't listen to the Pope. -
Pope Pius VI
He began to organize the Church in America and chose Father John Carrol of Maryland to be "Superior of the Mission" in the United States. -
King Louis XVI called together the Estates- General, the governing body of France to deal with his need to raise taxes
These Estates were made up of the French population: The Cleregy; The nobles, or leaders; the comman citizens. The comman citezens wanted to change the voting rules. They made up 98 percent of Frances population and wanted equel voting rights by counting votes individually. -
The normal citzens of France rename themselves the National Assembly
This means they were a unified assembly representing all the people pf France and invited the deputies of the other two estates to join them, calling for liberty, equality, and fraternity. Many of the clergy and a few nobles joined them. Thus the French Revolution begun. -
John Carrol of Maryland
"Superior of the Mission" in the United States. He was ordained the first bishop of Boltimore, Maryland- the first diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States. It included the thirteen sates. He also founded the first Catholic Church in the United States, Georgetown University. -
The National Assembly passed a law called the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
This decree meant the boundaries of all the dioceses were rearranged to match civil boundaries, bishops were appointed by the civil assemblies, and parish priests were even elected by civil assemblies. The pope as well as the king had no say in any of these events. -
The National Assembly demeanded that all clergy take an oath upholding the new Civil Constitution of the Clergy
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French National Assembly had almost completed its draft of a new constitution
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Pope Pius VI spoke out
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French Republic was declared
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King Louis XVI was executed.
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The Reign Terror
Tens of thousands of French citizens were killed. -
Those who had formed The Reeign of Terror feared their lives
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France had a new governmet named the Directory
They ruled France from 1795 until 1799. By mid-1795 aseries of decrees had restored freedom of worship, authoried the separation of the Church and state, and allowed Catholics to worship in some church buildings that were still owned by the state. -
French army occupied Rome
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Pope Pius VI was taken prisioner of war
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Pope Pius VI dies in Valence , France
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Pope Pius VII
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Treaty called the Concordat of 1801
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Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the new nation of the United Sates
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Napoleon declared himself emperor of France
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Napoleon crowned himself
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Napoleons armies occupied most of Europe
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Pope Pius VII made four more dioceses in the United States
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When the Pope refused to ally Napoleon in war Napoleon arrested him.
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Pope Pius VII elevated John Carroll from bishop to archbishop of Boltimore
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Pope Pius VII returned to Rome after being relased from prison
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Diplomats from all over Europe met in Vienna Austria to redraw the borders of their countries
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Napoleon returns to Paris with troops hoping to regain his empire
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Napoleon is finally defeated by the allied powers of Europe at Waterloo, Belgium
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Napoleon was exiled to the South Atlantic island of St. Helena
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The Pope estabished another new diocese, of Charleston, South Carolina
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Revolutionary movenets were happening throughout Italy
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There were 2 million Catholics inthe United States
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John Bosco started a Society of St. Francis de Sales , also known asthe Salesians
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A United Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed wanting Rome as its capital
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The bishops met in Baltimore at the Second Plenary Council
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Pope Pius convened the First Vatican Council
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Bishops from around the world met at the Vatican , the remains of the papal states and the city of Rome were taken over by Italian troops
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The Third Plenary Council
They voted to establish a nationwide Catholic school system with the goal of having every Catholic child in the United States enrolled in a Catholic school. They also estabished the Bolitmore Catechism. -
Sir Thomas More declared a saint
He was a devout Catholic and stood up to Henry VII, but was executed. -
Pope Leo the13 wrotethe first great Catholic social justice encyclical
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Pope Pius X
He declared that children should recive the Eucharist as soon as theywere old enough to understand that Christ was truly present in the Eucharist. -
Jerusalem stops being under Muslim control
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Pope Pius XI wrote the encyclial Quadragesimo Anno or After Fifty Years
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Pope Pius X was named a saint
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John F. KennedyStates
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John XXIII Convened the Second Vatican council
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Amercian Catholics began to celebrate the Eucharist in a new way.
Priests faced the assembly, mass no longer said in Latin, The Church published a new Roman Missal -
The Vatican Council Two ends
bishops had issued sixteen documents about different aspects of the life of the church -
Pope Paul issued Populorum Progressio
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Church published a new, revised Roman missal
It sets out the order of the mass. -
Pope Paul VI issued Octogesima Adveniens
or Eightieth Anniversary it honnered eighty years of Pope Leo XII's Rerum Novarum -
United States bishops estabished the first Sunday in October as respect life sunday
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The year of three popes
After Paul VI died in 1978 Pope John Paul was elected but he died only thirty three days after he was elected so John Paul II was elected. -
American bishops issued a pastoral letter called The Challenge of Peace
They stated "We are called to be a Church at the service of peace" -
The Bishops issued Economic Justice for All
reminded Catholics that "followers of Christ muust avoid tragic seperation between faith and everyday life" -
John Paul wrote Evangelium Vitae
about sacredness of all human life from conseption to natural death. -
Bishops issued the Living the Gospel of Life
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Pope John Paul II established this year "Jubilee Year"
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Otto von Bismarck succsded in throwing off Austrian rule of the States of the Roman empire
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A concil in Constantinopole
Emperor Theodosius I and bishps discued the creed, the fact that Jesus was fully divine, and that The Blessed Trinity is the central mystery of Christian faith and life. -
Decius
Ruled Rome and was responsible for the worst persecutions of the early Christians. -
Emperor Theodosius I
He called a council at Constantinople. Bishops repeated the teaching of Nicaea, and said that the Holy Spirit is like Jesus and is also fully divine. Our salvation is the work of one God, but that God exists in three divine persons. “it is the central mystery of Christian faith and life” -
Basil the Great
A great theologian whose writings helped to defeat the Arians at the Council of Constantinople 318. Basil was a monk who established the “rule of life” for monks For the “rule of life” monks vowed to practice poverty, chastity and obedience also known as evangelical councils. -
Benedict of Nursia
Founded a monastery at Monte Casino, Italy around 529. Lived by the motto Or te labora or “Pray and work” His “rule” named seven specific times a day for prayer Founded the Benedictine system in the western side of the Roman empire -
Scholastica
Sister of Benedict of Nursia Founded a monastery near Benedict’s -
Charlemagne, Leader of the Franks
Was crowned on Christmas day in 800 by Pope Leo III as the Emperor He saw politics and religion as the two halves that formed his Holy Empire Lead a reform in reorganization of hierarchy, or governing body of the church. Charlemagne’s most lasting contribution was to education He named Alcuin from England to set up a school of religious studies in Aachen In the first millennium- one thousand years - many schools and cathedrals were set up -
Brothers Cyril (827-869) and Methodius (825- 884)
Brought the Good News to the territory from which many of the invading tribes had come from, thus by the year 1000 most of the “Barbarians” in Europe were Christians -
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Decius' rule of the Roman Empire
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Period: to 305
Diocletion's rule of the Roman empire
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Origen (doctor of the church)
studied and explained scripture
