- — Asia:
Saint Maron and the Maronite origins
The Maronite community traces its origin to Saint Maron, a Syrian hermit whose ascetic following grows into a distinct church that later takes refuge in the mountains of Lebanon.
Era: Roman Heliopolis and the Rise of Christianity
Sources: Maronite church · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Asia:
An autocephalous Church
The Church of Cyprus was recognised as self-governing (autocephalous), free from the authority of any neighbouring patriarch, a distinction its archbishops have defended throughout the island's history.
Era: Roman and Byzantine Cyprus: An Early Christian Island
Sources: Cyprus: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Europe:
Palladius sent to the Irish
Pope Celestine I commissioned the bishop Palladius as the first bishop 'to the Irish believing in Christ', marking the formal arrival of organised Christianity on the island.
Era: Gaelic Ireland and the Monastic Golden Age
Sources: Ireland Converts to Christianity · EBSCO Research Starters, Saint Patrick · World History Encyclopedia
- — Europe:
The mission of St Patrick
The British-born missionary Patrick, traditionally active from the 430s, evangelised much of Ireland, secured toleration for Christians and fostered a native clergy and monasticism; his feast is 17 March.
Era: Gaelic Ireland and the Monastic Golden Age
Sources: Saint Patrick · World History Encyclopedia, Ireland Converts to Christianity · EBSCO Research Starters
- — Africa:
Council of Chalcedon and the Coptic schism
Doctrinal disputes over the nature of Christ separate the Egyptian (Coptic) Church from the imperial church of Constantinople.
Era: Greco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt
Sources: Ptolemaic Dynasty · World History Encyclopedia
- — Asia:
Christian Byzantium and the mosaics of Um er-Rasas
Under Byzantine rule Christianity spread across the plateau and church floors were laid with elaborate mosaics, preserved most fully at Um er-Rasas, later a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Era: Rome, the Decapolis and Byzantine Christianity
Sources: Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a) · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- — Europe:
Religion in the 5th century
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change, narrowed to the 5th century — 7 of them, drawn from 6 nations, running from 410 to 496. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 7
- Nations
- 6
- Earliest
- 410
- Latest
- 496
- Asia
- 3
- Europe
- 3
- Africa
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.