In the 11th century we have the fifth period, a new chapter, in church history. The state church was divided into Eastern and Western, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Western Catholic Church because of the ambition of the heads of the two churches to become the first among two […]

The Iconoclastic Controversy began as a conflict within the church which developed into a civil war and in the next centuries, the 5th and 6th century mostly, this situation in the church became a real civil war and the battle of that civil war, the battle field, was the Middle […]

Then suddenly we have the Constantinian decree, The Edict of Milan. After 250 years all persecution stopped. We sat on the bus and listened as our history lesson continued. Kostas told us that he would like to say only two words about Constantine. Constantine was a very, very clever politician. […]

The second period in church history is the period of the persecutions. It overlaps a little bit with the first period and starts in the year 64AD when Nero ordered the first persecution against the Christians, making an official distinction between the Christians and the Jews. Until 313AD, it is […]

The first period of church history began with the early church apostles and comes to an end with the death of the Apostle John at the end of the first century AD.  He was the last apostle who died and the only one who had a natural death. Some people […]