Chapter 4: The Christian Empire Quiz

Council of Nicaea [blank_start]AD 325[blank_end] Canon of Scripture defined at the Synod of Carthage [blank_start]AD 397[blank_end] Christianity declared the official religion of the Empire [blank_start]AD 392[blank_end] Jerome completes the Latin translation of the Bible [blank_start]AD 405[blank_end] Fall of Rome to the Visigoths [blank_start]AD 410[blank_end] The Huns' invasion of Italy [blank_start]AD 452[blank_end] The sack of Rome by the Vandals [blank_start]AD 455[blank_end]

Germanic nation, the Western Goths; sacked Rome in 410 and conquered southern Gaul and Hispania in the years following: [blank_start]Visigoths[blank_end]

To remove from a high position in church or state, such as the kingship or the office of a bishop: [blank_start]depose[blank_end]

One who lives alone, a hermit; also someone who lives in a community called a monastery: [blank_start]monk[blank_end]

Translator of the Vulgate Latin Bible: [blank_start]St Jerome[blank_end]

Heretical theologian who taught the Son of God is not equal to the Father: [blank_start]Arius[blank_end]

Roman emperor who established Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire: [blank_start]Theodosius I[blank_end]

One who withdraws from society and lives alone, usually for religious reasons: [blank_start]hermit[blank_end]

One who takes a vow not to be married: [blank_start]celibate[blank_end]

An early Christian church building based on the form of a Roman court of justice: [blank_start]basilica[blank_end]

The founder of the chief proponent of a heresy: [blank_start]heresiarch[blank_end]

Adhering to teaching, established, especially by a religious group; adhering to the teachings revealed to the Church by Christ: [blank_start]orthodox[blank_end]

A formal statement of religious belief that lays out what Christians must believe: [blank_start]creed[blank_end]

Roman general and counselor to the young Emperor Honorius: [blank_start]Stilicho[blank_end]

Sharing 'one substance', one essence, of the same nature: [blank_start]consubstantial[blank_end]

Greek, meaning 'household': [blank_start]ekumene[blank_end]

Asiatic nomads who ravaged Western Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries: [blank_start]Huns[blank_end]

One being trained or educated in the faith but not yet baptized: [blank_start]catechumen[blank_end]

Latin, "I believe" - the first word of the Creed: [blank_start]credo[blank_end]

The heretical teaching of Pelagius, a British Monk, who said that human beings could bring on their salvation by their own merits and works, without grace: [blank_start]Pelagianism[blank_end]

The heretical teaching of Arius of Alexandria that God the Son was a later creation of God the Father and not coeternal with the Father: [blank_start]Arianism[blank_end]

Archbishop of Milan and great preacher and collector of hymns: [blank_start]St Ambrose[blank_end]

Germanic nation, conquered southern Gaul and Hispania and then moved to North Africa, where they established a kingdom around Carthage: [blank_start]Vandals[blank_end]

Theologian and bishop of Hippo: [blank_start]St Augustine[blank_end]

King of the Visigoths, sacked Rome in 410: [blank_start]Alaric the Visigoth[blank_end]

Pope who saved Rome from the Huns: [blank_start]St Leo the Great[blank_end]

Called for severe self-control and piety: [blank_start]Manicheans[blank_end]

Greek, meaning "a division": [blank_start]schisma[blank_end]

One who acts for pay, particularly soldiers who serve in the army for pay and not for loyalties or patriotism: [blank_start]mercenary[blank_end]

A gathering of bishops that represents the entire Church: [blank_start]ecumenical council[blank_end]

Including the whole civilized world, universal: [blank_start]ecumenical[blank_end]

The dwelling place of a hermit: [blank_start]hermitage[blank_end]

Archbishop of Alexandria, champion of the Trinitarian doctrine of the Council of Nicaea: [blank_start]St Athanasius[blank_end]

A Persian philosophy that taught the material world is evil; only the spiritual world is good: [blank_start]Manicheanism[blank_end]

The creed recited in Catholic Churches today at Mass - it is NOT the statement of faith of the Council of Nicaea: [blank_start]Nicene Creed[blank_end]

A list of, especially, sacred books: [blank_start]canon[blank_end]

A schismatic sect that said that lay Christians and clerics who had cooperated with the Roman persecutors could not be legitimate Christians or priests: [blank_start]Donatists[blank_end]

King of the Vandals, conquered Roman North Africa and sacked Rome: [blank_start]Genseric[blank_end] the Vandal

King of the Huns: [blank_start]Attila[blank_end] the Hun

Sets up a rival church, causing division of a part of the Church from the whole: [blank_start]schismatic[blank_end]