THE ROLE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

THE ROLE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CHURCH 

• Christianity had become the predominant religion of the Roman Empire. 

• Official Roman state disintegrated: The christian church played an increasingly important role in the growth of the New European Civilization.

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which religion had became the most important at the beginning of the middle ages?

• ISLAM

• BUDDHISM

• CHRISTIANITY

• HINDUISM

Church Organization 

• System of Government 

• Bishop: headed the christian community in each city. 

• The Bishops of each Roman providence were joined by the direction of the ARCHBISHOP. 

• POPES: MAJOR AUTHORITY WHO RULES IN ROME. 

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HEADED THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ON EACH CITY:

• BISHOPS

• ARCHBISHOP

• POPES

THE MONKS AND THEIR MISSIONS 

• A Monk: was a man who sought to live a life divorced from the world, cut off from ordinary human society, to pursue an ideal of total dedication to God. 

• The monk's life was a communal one. Monks ate, worked, slept, and worshiped together.

• Abbot: Father of the Monastery. Unquestioning obedience to their will.  

• MONKS BECAME THE NEW HEROES OF CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION. 

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WHAT IS AN ABBOT?

• The father of the Monks

• Father of the Abbots

• Father of the Monastery

• Father of the Nuns