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• Majority TextBible

  The Majority Text is a textual-criticism term for a reconstructed text of the Greek New Testament that follows the common readings of the medieval Byzantine manuscripts, which make up the numerical majority of extant Greek New Testament manuscripts.

• Oxyrhynchus PapyriHistory

  The Oxyrhynchus Papyri are a large body of papyrus documents excavated from the late nineteenth century onward from the rubbish mounds of the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. They include New Testament manuscripts and Greek fragments of the Gospel of Thomas, among other texts.

• Byzantine EmpireHistory

  The Byzantine Empire is the name later given to the Eastern Roman Empire, which had Constantinople as its capital and endured until 1453. Early ecumenical councils were held there, and the Orthodox tradition developed within it.

• Iconoclastic ControversyHistory

  The Iconoclastic Controversy was a theological and political dispute in the Byzantine Empire during the eighth and ninth centuries over whether it was legitimate to make and venerate images (icons) of Christ and the saints. It was largely settled with the restoration of icon veneration in 843.

• Madaba MapHistory

  The Madaba Map is a sixth-century Byzantine mosaic map preserved in the floor of the Church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan. It is known as the oldest surviving original map of the Holy Land.

• Cyril and MethodiusHistory

  Cyril and Methodius were ninth-century missionary brothers from Thessalonica in the Byzantine Empire. They introduced worship in the Slavic language in Great Moravia and created the Glagolitic alphabet, earning them the title "Apostles to the Slavs."

• Justinian IPeople

  Justinian I (c. 482–565) was emperor of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire from 527 to 565. He is known for codifying Roman law and for rebuilding the Hagia Sophia, and the Orthodox Church venerates him as a saint.

• TheodoraPeople

  Theodora (c. 500–548) was a sixth-century empress of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. The wife and closest adviser of Justinian I, she protected the churches that opposed the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon. The Orthodox Church venerates her as a saint.

• Hagia SophiaHistory

  Hagia Sophia is a building in Istanbul, Türkiye (formerly Constantinople). Dedicated in 537 as the cathedral of the Eastern Roman Empire, it became a mosque in 1453 and a museum in 1934, and was converted back into a mosque in 2020.

• CrusadesHistory

  The Crusades were a series of military expeditions undertaken by Catholic Western Europe from the late eleventh to the late thirteenth century at the call of the popes, with the stated aim of recovering Jerusalem and the other holy places from Muslim powers.

• History of the Russian Orthodox ChurchHistory

  The history of the Russian Orthodox Church is the history of a branch of Eastern Orthodoxy that began around 988, when Vladimir I of Kievan Rus' accepted the Orthodox faith of Byzantium, and that has continued to the present day centered on the Patriarchate of Moscow.

• Honorius IPeople

  Honorius I (d. 638) was bishop of Rome (pope) from 625 to 638. Because of a letter that appeared to affirm a single will in Christ, he was condemned after his death by the Third Council of Constantinople.

• ConstantinopleHistory

  Constantinople was the city that Constantine the Great dedicated in 330 as the new capital of the Roman Empire; it is present-day Istanbul in Türkiye. It was the center of the Eastern church in antiquity and the Middle Ages, and several church councils were held there.