Church History Chapter 2 - Events and people

Jewish radical group who opposed Roman rule

• Zealots

• episkopi

• apologist

• Church fathers

Jewish upper class/ religious/ political leaders that tolerated Roman rule

• Zealots

• Pharisees

• Sadducees

• Apologists

First Church council. The outcome was that Gentiles no needed to follow Jewish laws and convert first to Judaism before becoming a Christian.

• Council of Nicea

• Council of Trent

• Council of Jerusalem

• Council of Antioch

This emperor tried at all costs to uproot Christianity out of the empire

• Diocletian

• Trajan

• Domitian

• Nero

This emperor was a known sociopath that set Rome on fire and then blamed it on Christians.

• Diocletian

• Trajan

• Nero

• Domitian

Emperor who authored the most severe persecutions to Christians in the first century.

• Nero

• Domitian

• Diocletian

• Trajan

First Christian martyr.

• St Paul

• St Irenaeus of Lyons

• St. Justin Maryr

• St. Stephen

Jewish group that advocated for strict observance of mosaic law.

• Sadducee

• Zealots

• Pharisees

• Martyrs

Second century writers who defended and expanded Christianity to non believers

• Apologists

• Church Father's

• Zealots

• Apostles

A "witness" person who dies for his or her faith or convictions.

• Zealot

• Sadducee

• Pharisee

• martyr