ID Terms

Question 1

70 AD

Answer 1

1. Temple destroyed
2. Fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy
3. Disciples scattered from Jerusalem

Question 2

Polycarp of Smyrna

Answer 2

1. Disciple of Apostle John
2. Martyred in 157 AD
3. Bishop of Smyrna

Question 3

Ignatios of Antioch

Answer 3

1. First martyr after Steven
2. 3rd bishop of Antioch
3. Child held by Jesus

Question 4

Clement of Rome

Answer 4

1. 3rd bishop of Rome
2. Wrote a letter to the Corinthians
3. Wrote 1 Clement and 2 Clement

Question 5

Pliny the Younger

Answer 5

1. Governor of Athenia
2. Wrote a letter to Trajan about what to do with the Christians
3. Refers to Christianity as a disease spreading through Rome

Question 6

Trajan

Answer 6

1. Emperor of Rome
2. Made an edict that Christians could not be persecuted anonymously
3. Did not view emperors as gods

Question 7

Josephus

Answer 7

1. Jewish historian, priest, and ruler
2. Jewish, but refers to Jesus as the Christ
3. Wrote “On Jewish Wars & Antiquities”

Question 8

Abgar of Odessa

Answer 8

1. Contemporary of Christ
2. Thaddeus brings him a cloth with an image of Jesus that heals his leprosy
3. Converted his empire to Christianity and hung the cloth over the gates

Question 9

Tatian the Assyrian

Answer 9

1. Disciple of Justin Martyr
2. Wrote Diatesseron
3. Taught the Encratites

Question 10

Edict of Milan

Answer 10

1. Issued in 313 AD
2. Legalized Christianity in Rome
3. Issued by Constantine

Question 11

Constantine the Great

Answer 11

1. First Christian Roman emperor
2. Wrote the Edict of Milan to legalize Christianity
3. Called the 1st Ecumenical Council

Question 12

Tertullian

Answer 12

1. Well educated lawyer
2. First to coin the term Trinity
3. “What has faith to do with philosophy?”

Question 13

Diocletian

Answer 13

1. Emperor of Rome during the crisis of the 3rd century
2. Militarized the empire
3. Issued the third wave of persecutions of Christians

Question 14

Empress Helen

Answer 14

1. Mother of Constantine
2. Found the cross of Christ
3. Christian, strong Christian supporter, and saint

Question 15

Athanasios the Great

Answer 15

1. Exiled 5 times
2. Bishop of Alexandria
3. At the 1st Ecumenical Council

Question 16

Nicholas of Myra

Answer 16

1. Slapped Arias at the 1st Ecumenical Council
2. Gave away his money to the poor in secret
3. Patron saint of sailors

Question 17

Pachomias the Great

Answer 17

1. Early desert father
2. Founded a monastery by the Nile
3. Influenced Basil the Great

Question 18

Gregory the Theologian

Answer 18

1. Present at the 2nd Ecumenical Council
2. Studied at Athens with Basil the Great and Julian the Apostate
3. Said “What is not assumed is not healed.”

Question 18

Anthony the Great

Answer 18

1. Founder of monasticism
2. Lived alone in the desert for 20 years inspired by Matthew 19:21
3. Early desert father

Question 19

Basil the Great

Answer 19

1. Friend of Gregory the Theologian
2. Studied at Athens with Gregory the Theologian and Julian the Apostate
3. Bishop of Caeserea

Question 20

Ambrose of Milan

Answer 20

1. Baptized and consecrated as a priest and bishop within a week
2. Counters pelagianism and Arianism
3. Promots antiphonal chants

Question 21

Theodosius the Great

Answer 21

1. Banned the Olympics
2. Called the 2nd Ecumenical Council
3. Made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire

Question 22

Julian the Apostate

Answer 22

1. Desired to restore paganism to Rome
2. Brought Athanasius back from exile
3. Studied with Gregory the Theologian and Basil the Great at Athens

Question 23

Nestorianism

Answer 23

1. Taught by Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople
2. Refuted at the 3rd Ecumenical Council
3. Uses the term “Christotokos” and splits the human and divine person of Christ

Question 24

Theotokos

Answer 24

1. Means "God-bearer" 2. When Nestorius heard it he found it scandalous 3. Affirms Christ's full divinity

Question 25

Leo the Great

Answer 25

1. Bishop of Rome during the 3rd and 4th Ecumenical Councils 2. Sends the Tome of Leo to the 3rd Ecumenical Council 3. His tome confirms the one person and two natures of Christ

Question 26

Justinian the Great

Answer 26

1. Called the 5th Ecumenical Council 2. Last Roman emperor 3. Constructed the Hagia Sophia

Question 27

Empress Theodora

Answer 27

1. Wife of Justinian the Great 2. Sympathetic to the monophysites 3. Convinced her husband to call the 5th Ecumenical Council

Question 28

Monophysitism

Answer 28

1. Taught by Dioscorus 2. Claims that Christ has only one person and one nature 3. Refuted at the 4th Ecumenical Council

Question 29

John the Almsgiver

Answer 29

1. Gave charity to the monophysites without discrimination 2. Patriarch of Alexandria 3. Chalcedonian churches multiply 10 times under him

Question 30

Augustine

Answer 30

1. Wrote "City of God" and "Confessions" 2. Refuted pelagianism 3. Influential Latin Christian

Question 31

John Cassian

Answer 31

1. Refuted pelagianism 2. Established monasteries in Southern France 3. Moved to Egypt from Bethlehem and encountered the Desert Fathers

Question 32

Cyril of Alexandria

Answer 32

1. Present at the 3rd Ecumenical Council 2. Refuted nestorianism 3. Patriarch of Alexandria