Constantinople
Constantinople. In 330 Constantine inaugurated Constantinople as his capital on the site of the Greek city of Byzantium. It remained the capital of the E. Empire until it fell to the Turks in 1453.
Byzantium had a Christian community at least from the 2nd cent., and Constantinople was a Christian city from its inauguration. In 381 its Bishop was given honorary pre-eminence after the Bp. of Rome; in 451, though the Pope objected, patriarchal powers were formally conferred on him. Constantinople was challenged by Alexandria for supremacy in the East, but by the 6th cent. the Patr. of Constantinople was recognized as the Oecumenical Patriarch in the East. Estrangement from Rome developed, leading to the final breach between the Catholic West and Orthodox East, usually assigned to the year 1054.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. E. A. Livingstone. Oxford University Press, 2000.
Byzantium had a Christian community at least from the 2nd cent., and Constantinople was a Christian city from its inauguration. In 381 its Bishop was given honorary pre-eminence after the Bp. of Rome; in 451, though the Pope objected, patriarchal powers were formally conferred on him. Constantinople was challenged by Alexandria for supremacy in the East, but by the 6th cent. the Patr. of Constantinople was recognized as the Oecumenical Patriarch in the East. Estrangement from Rome developed, leading to the final breach between the Catholic West and Orthodox East, usually assigned to the year 1054.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. E. A. Livingstone. Oxford University Press, 2000.
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