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Medieval Church
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Overview
Advantages:
- Helps prevent false teaching
- Helps maintain unity
- Helps create a strong organization
Disadvantages
- All the focus can be on one person
-If the main leader makes a wrong decision it can be harder for people to object.
People can tend to feel less involved
Overview
Pope
- Had power to excommunicate (banish someone from the church community)
- Had power over the king
- In charge of the church
Religious Nobility
Included Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops
Cardinal
- Used by popes to extend their power
- They were legates (official representatives)
- They were curial officials
- Their jobs included electing the pope, acting as his principal counsellors, and helping the government of the Church.
Archbishop
- Bishop of the highest rank
- In charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region
Archbishop
Bishop
- Included metropolitans, archbishops or patriarchs.
- Had authority over priests, monks, and deacons who were at the bottom of the church hierarchy (not counting believers)
Priests, Monks, Deacons
Priests
- Proclaim the Word of God.
- Performing the Sacraments (Reconciliation, Baptism, Funerals, Marriages, and Sacrament of the Sick)
- Prayed with other people
-Priests cared for the spiritual life of people.
Monks
- Separates himself from society and lives alone or in an community to devote himself full-time to religious life.
- Lived in monasteries
- Served as examples of the perfect Christian life.
- Were scholars who sometimes copied the books of the Bible by hand. (This was before the invention of the printing press.)
- Worked to support themselves by gardening and land management.
- Sometimes educated the sons of the nobles.
Deacon
Deacons
- Help the bishop look after the temporal needs of the Church.
- Include gathering fast offerings, helping to care for those in need, and helping to care for the meetinghouse and grounds.
- They can do some of the things a priest does but basically, they are a lower-ranked priest
Believers
People like you and me :D