Church Division

• SSWH4 The student will analyze the importance of the Byzantine and Mongol

• empires between 450 CE and 1500 CE. • b. Describe the relationship between the

Roman and Byzantine Empires; include the impact Byzantium had on Moscow and the Russian Empire, the effect of Byzantine culture on Tsar Ivan III and Kiev, and the rise of Constantinople as a center for law, religion, and the arts.

• c. Explain the Great Schism of 1054 CE.

• Things began to develop differently– Distance too much

between East and West

– Lack of contact– Different cultural

practices

Eastern Church

• Followed early Church fathers

• Saint Basil-357– Wrote rules for life of monks– Describes how Christians

should behave• Not be showy in clothing• Consume nothing beyond

necessity• All men above himself

Eastern Church

Patriarch – leading bishop of the East, bowed to the emperor.

Belief in icons– Religious symbols

to aid in devotion

Western Church

• Papacy in total control—the Pope

• Had rule over emperor and all bishops in empire

The Split

• Schism of 1054– Split

• political conflicts • belief differences

– Pope and patriarch both excommunicated each other (cast out from the church)

– West = Roman Catholic = pope– East = Eastern Orthodox = patriarch

ASSIGNMENT

• P. 305

• Create your own Venn Diagram with the information about comparing 2 churches