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Christianity in the Middle Ages covers the history of Christianity from the fall of the Western Roman Empire (c. 476). The end of the period is variously defined - depending on the context, events such as the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire in 1453, Christopher Columbus 's first voyage to the Americas in 1492, or the Protestant ...
The traditional social stratification of the Occident in the 15th century. Church and state in medieval Europe was the relationship between the Catholic Church and the various monarchies and other states in Europe during the Middle Ages (between the end of Roman authority in the West in the fifth century to their end in the East in the fifteenth century and the beginning of the Modern era).
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses.
After 380, Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire.The church in Roman Britain was overseen by a hierarchy of bishops and priests.Many existing pagan shrines were converted to Christian use and few pagan sites still operated by the fifth century. [1]
Translated from Ross; he is one of the greatest of all medieval Scottish bishops, and is remembered today for, among other things, founding the University of Aberdeen. 1514/5 1518 Alexander Gordon: bef. 1515 1516 Robert Forman: Provided by Pope, but resigned without ever possessing. 1518 1532 Gavin Dunbar: 1529 1531 George Learmond (coadjutor ...
Guide to Bishops' Registers of England and Wales. A Survey from the Middle Ages to the Abolition of Episcopacy in 1646. London: The Royal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-90105-072-4 – via Internet Archive.
All surviving medieval accounts of the movement are by supporters of reform, who strongly condemned what they saw as the corruption and religious inadequacy of the secular clergy, but historians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have increasingly seen these accounts as unfairly biased against the secular clergy.
This implies there was already a community of Christians in Ireland, who may have requested a bishop be appointed. Prosper later wrote in his Contra collatorem (c. 433) that Celestine, "having ordained a bishop for the Irish, while he labours to keep the Roman island Catholic, he has also made the barbarian island Christian." [5]