Christianity Terms
Terms from the Christianity Unit
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- archbishop
- highest-ranking bishop: a bishop of the highest rank, who heads an archdiocese or an ecclesiastical province (http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861586608/archbishop.html)
- Augustine of Hippo
- bishop of Hippo in North Africa; combined Christian doctrine with Greco-Roman learning esp. Plato's philosophy
- trinity
- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
- dogma
- a belief or set of beliefs that a religion holds to be true (http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861605778/dogma.html)
- heresy
- belief that said to be contrary to official Church teachings
- Paul of Tarsus
- prophet; persecuted Jesus; spread Christianity throughout Mediterranean and Asia Minor
- New Testament
- second section of Christian Bible: the second section of the Christian Bible dealing with the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, containing the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles, and the Book of Revelations (http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861696890/New_Testament.html)
- Jesus of Nazareth
- son of God; messiah
- bishop
- high Church official responsible for everyone in his diocese
- Peter
- chief apostle of Jesus; became a missionary and first bishop of Antioch and Rome
- baptism
- rite of purification: a religious ceremony in which somebody is sprinkled with or immersed in water to symbolize purification. In some Christian baptisms, the person is named as well as being accepted into the Christian faith. (http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861588790/baptism.html)
- apostles
- name that means "a person sent forth" in Greek
- martyr
- someone who suffers or dies for their beliefs
- clergy
- the group of people who perform the Christian services