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Church Slavonic [a] [b] is the conservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland ...
The Glagolitic alphabet was an early Slavic alphabet, the predecessor of the modern Cyrillic alphabet. In Croatia, the Catholic Church gave permission for the Roman Rite liturgical Mass to be celebrated in Old Church Slavonic at a time when such liturgies were typically only permitted to be in Latin, resulting in the Glagolitic Use Mass. [2]
Church Slavonic, a written and spoken variant of Old Church Slavonic, standardized and widely adopted by Slavs in the Middle Ages, which became a liturgical language in many Eastern Orthodox churches; Pan-Slavic language, artificially created languages intended to serve as a lingua franca for all Slavic peoples; East Slavic languages, modern ...
Old Church Slavonic [1] or Old Slavonic (/ s l ə ˈ v ɒ n ɪ k, s l æ ˈ v ɒ n-/ slə-VON-ik, slav-ON-) [a] is the first Slavic literary language and the oldest extant written Slavonic language attested in literary sources.
The Slavs were Christianized in waves from the 7th to 12th century, though the process of replacing old Slavic religious practices began as early as the 6th century. [1] Generally speaking, the monarchs of the South Slavs adopted Christianity in the 9th century , the East Slavs in the 10th , and the West Slavs between the 9th and 12th century.
A katholikon or catholicon (Greek: καθολικόν) or sobor (Church Slavonic: съборъ) refers to one of three things in the Eastern Orthodox Church: The cathedral of a diocese. The major church building (temple) of a monastery corresponding to a conventual church in Western Christianity.
The oldest translation of the Bible into a Slavic language, Old Church Slavonic, has close connections with the activity of the two apostles to the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius, in Great Moravia in 864–865. The oldest manuscripts use either the so-called Cyrillic or the Glagolitic alphabets.
Church Slavonic was the main language used for administrative (until the 16th century) and liturgical purposes (until the 17th century) by the Romanian principalities, being still occasionally used in the Orthodox Church until the early 18th century.