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The consecration of the third Cluny Abbey by Pope Urban II [1]. By the 10th century, Christianity had spread throughout much of Europe and Asia. The Church in England was becoming well established, with its scholarly monasteries, and the Roman Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church were continuing their separation, ultimately culminating in the Great Schism.
The first traces of the "Papal States" appear at the end of the seventh century. [245] In the ninth and tenth centuries, Charlemagne and Otto the Great conceded to the popes the southeastern part of the Po Valley and a large part of central Italy. [245] In the early tenth century, the papacy was still in need of aid and protection from a ...
The first known attempts to Christianize Sweden were made by Ansgar in 830, invited by the Swedish king Björn. Setting up a church at Birka he met with little Swedish interest. A century later Unni, archbishop of Hamburg, made another unsuccessful attempt. In the 10th century English missionaries made inroads in Västergötland.
The English Benedictine Reform or Monastic Reform of the English church in the late tenth century was a religious and intellectual movement in the later Anglo-Saxon period. In the mid-tenth century almost all monasteries were staffed by secular clergy, who were often married.
10th-century Christians (6 C, 7 P) O. Christian organizations established in the 10th century (2 C, 3 P) P. 10th century in the Papal States (2 P) T.
The Church of the East (also known as the Nestorian Church) was a Christian organization with a presence in China during two periods: first from the 7th through the 10th century in the Tang dynasty, when it was known as Jingjiao (Chinese: 景教; pinyin: Jǐngjiào; Wade–Giles: Ching 3-chiao 4; lit.
Although the cross was known to the early Christians, the crucifix did not appear in use until the 5th century. [221] Among the earliest Christian symbols, that of the fish or Ichthys seems to have ranked first in importance, as seen on monumental sources such as tombs from the first decades of the 2nd century. [222]
Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Kopčany (Kopčany, Slovakia, 9th-10th century) - the only preserved building from the time of Great Moravia. When king Rastislav of Moravia asked Byzantium for teachers who could minister to the Moravians in their own language, Byzantine emperor Michael III chose two brothers, Cyril and Methodius.