Kekristenan pada Abad Pertengahan

Lihat pula: Kekristenan pada Abad Kuno Akhir dan Sejarah Kekristenan modern

Kekristenan pada Abad Pertengahan meliputi sejarah Kekristenan dari Kejatuhan Kekaisaran Romawi Barat (ca 476) sampai Kejatuhan Konstantinopel (1453), yang biasanya dijadikan akhir Abad Pertengahan dalam Sejarah Eropa.

Sepasang kakak adik Kirilos dan Metodius menyebarkan agama Kristen ke suku bangsa Slavik.

Dalam Pentarki kuno Kekristenan, lima patriark memegang keunggulan istimewa: tahta-tahta Roma, Konstantinopel, Yerusalem, Antiokia, dan Aleksandria. Nilai dari sebagian besar tahta tersebut tergantung pada para pendiri apostolik mereka, atau dalam kasus Bizantium/Konstantinopel, bahwa tahta tersebut adalah tahta baru ("Roma Baru" dari kelanjutan Romawi Timur, atau Kekaisaran Bizantium. Uskup-uskup tersebut menganggap diri mereka sendiri sebagai para penerus dari rasul-rasul mereka.^[1] Selain itu, seluruh lima kota tersebut adalah pusat awal Kekristenan.

Catatan

1. Woollcombe, K.J. "The Ministry and the Order of the Church in the Works of the Fathers" in The Historic Episcopate. Kenneth M. Carey (Ed.). Dacre Press (1954) p.31f

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The following links provide quantitative data related to Christianity and other major religions, including rates of adherence at different points in time: American Religion Data Archive Early Stages of the Establishment of Christianity Theandros, a journal of Orthodox theology and philosophy, containing articles on early Christianity and patristic studies. Historical Christianity, A time line with references to the descendants of the early church. Reformation Timeline, A short timeline of the Protestant Reformation.