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Eastern Orthodox Church System
The Eastern Orthodox Church system, centered on the patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, separated from Rome after th…
Timeline
- 1054Constantinople · Byzantine EmpireIn 1054 Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople excommunicated each other, formally splitting the Eastern and Western churches; the Eastern church system developed its own tradition in theology, liturgy, and hierarchy.
- c. 1122–1128Hagia Sophia, Constantinople · Byzantine EmpireIn the 1120s Eastern Orthodoxy was still the state religion of Byzantium; patriarchates, monastic networks, and the imperial syncellus system operated together, and the church participated in diplomacy and Crusade-related issues.
- c. 988–1125Kiev · Kievan Rus'From the conversion of Kievan Rus', Eastern Orthodoxy spread through Byzantium to the Slavic lands; by the 1120s an Eastern European church landscape of multiple patriarchates and local metropolitans had taken shape.
Sources
- The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity — Timothy Ware (1993)
- Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium — Alexander Kazhdan et al. (1991)