Early Christian and Byzantine Empire Vocabulary Review

close follower of Jesus

• apostle

• disciple

• martyr

• hierarchy

story that used events from daily life to express spiritual ideas

• parable

• saint

• persecute

• doctrine

early Christian leader who helped set up churches and spread the message of Jesus

• gospel

• Pope

• doctrine

• apostle

Christian Holy Person

• martyr

• hierarchy

• saint

• icon

to mistreat a person because of his or her beliefs

• persecute

• gospel

• Pope

• icon

person willing to die rather than give up his or her beliefs

• icon

• doctrine

• Pope

• martyr

organization with different levels of authority

• saint

• hierarchy

• parable

• apostle

official church teaching

• doctrine

• gospel

• icon

• parable

”good news”; one of the four accounts of Jesus’ life, teachings and resurrection

• saint

• persecute

• gospel

• icon

the bishop of Rome, later the head of the Roman Catholic Church

• apostle

• Pope

• icon

• martyr