Orthodox Chronology

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hronology

Origins described in Gen 1-1 1)

Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph in

Egypt dates unknown; described in Gen 12-50)

Moses, the Exodus, the Law at Sinai ca. 1240f ;

described in Ex, Lev, Num)

Tentative possession of Canaan ca. 1210; de-

scribed in Josh)

Judges ca. 1200-1025)

Deborah ca. 1125)

Philistine victory at Aphek ca. 1050)

Samuel and Saul described in 1 Sam)

David ca. 1010-970; described in 2 Sam)

Solomon 970-931) and the monarchy to ca. 850

described in 1 Kings)

1st Temple built 4th yr. of Solomon)

Ahab +853; year of Battle at Qarqar)

Elijah-Elisha and the monarchies through to their

destructions described in 1 2 Kings)

Amos and Hosea ca. 750)

Fall of Samaria 72 1)

Is 1-39 and Micah

Hezekiah

Byzantium founded 660)

Josiah 640-609) and Reform

Deut

Zeph, Nahum, Hab

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Fall of Jerusalem and Exile 587)


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A.D.

Exilic codification of Scrip ture

Deu teronom istic Historian, Is 40-55, Lam, Ob ,

Job

Cyrus establishes Persian Em pire (539-333)

Return (538 f.)

Hag, Zech 1-8

2nd T emple built (5 19-5 15)

IS 55-66

Zech 9-14, Ma1

Ezra and the Torah (458)

Neh (4451444)

1 , 2 Chr, Ruth

Joel, Jon

Plato (+347)

Greek Period (333-63 B.c.)

Alexander conquers Palestine (333-330)

Let Jer (3 17?)

Eccl

LXX Translation begins

Tob (225-175)

Bar (200-60?)

Sir (before 180)

I Enoch (date unknown)

Dan (167-1

64

1 Esd, Esth (after 164)

Jdt (135-105)

Qum ran founded

Additions to Dan: Song of Thr, Sus, Be1 (2nd c)

Add Esth (1 14 f.)

1 Macc (104)

2 Macc (104-63)

Letter of Aristeas, 3 Macc (ca. 100)

W is, Pr M an (late 1st c.)

Roman Period (63-A.D. 135)

Birth of Jesus (6 B.c.?)

Judaizers

Docetists

Dualists

Jesus ministry (ca. 30)

Paul s Letters: 1 Thess, Gal, 1 2 Cor, Philp,

Rom, Philm

Martyrdom of Peter and Paul (+6 4)

Jewish Revolt and Destruction of Jerusalem

(66-70), Mk


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Mt

Com pletion of Pauline corpus: 2 Thess, Col, Eph

Lk-Acts

Jn, 1-3 Jn

2 Esd, 4 M acc (dates uncertain)

Heb

Rev (ca. 95)

1 Clem ent (95196)

Gnostics

Montanists

Modalists

Advent of Rabbinic Pharisaism

Roman persecutions

Epistle to Barnabas, Didache (ca. 100)

Jas, 1 Pet, Jude

Ignatius of Antioch

+

115)

Pastoral Letters; 1 Tim, 2 Tim , Titus

ar

Cochba Revolt (132-135); Aelia Capitolina

f.

2 Pet (ca. 140)

Shepherd of Hennas (ca. 148)

Protoevangelium of James (ca. 150)

2 Clem ent (date unknown, possibly ca. 150)

Polycarp of Sm yrna

+

156)

Apologists: Justin M artyr

+

165) et al.

Cont. above plus

Adoptionists

Novationists (mid c.)

Manichaeans

Encratites

Subordinationists

Plotinus

+

270)

Irenaeus of Lyons (+ca . 200)

Clem ent of A lexandria

+2

15)

Hippolytus of Rom e

+

236)

Origen (+254)

Cyprian of Carthage

+

258)

Didaskalia (late 3rd c.)

Donatists

Arians

Eunomians

Messalians

?)

Apollinarians

LXX Versions:

Lucian s-Constantinople,

Hesy-

chius s-Alexandria, Origen s-Palestine


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Church of Armenia 3 15), Gregory Illuminator

1st Ecum enical Council in Nicaea 325)

Patriarchate of the Church of Alexandria 325)

Patriarchate of the Church of Antioch 325)

Church of Georgia 330)

Constantinople founded by Constantine 330)

Eusebius of Caesarea

+

340)

Church of Ethiopia Abyssinia, mid c.)

Desert Fathers: Pachomius +3 47), Antony

+356), Macarius of Egypt +3 90)

Ephrem the Syrian +37 3)

Athanasius of Alexandria +3 73)

2nd Ecumenical Council in Constantinople 381)

Cyril of Jerusalem +3 86)

Cappadocians: Basil +3 79), Gregory Nazianzus

+389), Gregory of Nyssa +3 94), John

Chrysostom +407)

Ambrose of Milan

+

397)

Evagrius of Pontus +399)

Makarian Ps.) Hom ilies date unknown)

Nestorians

Pelagians

Eutychians

Monophysites

John Chrysostom +40 7)

Autocephaly of the Church of Cyprus 413)

Jerome +419)

Lausiac History 419)

Theodore of Mopsuestia +4 28)

Augustine of Hippo +430)

3rd Ecumenical Council in Ephesus 431)

Cyril of Alexandria +444)

Tome of Leo 449)

4th Ecumenical Council in Chalcedon 451

Ecumenical Patriarchate of the Church of Con-

stantinople 45 1)

Patriarchate of the Church of Jerusalem 45 1)

Theodoret of Cyrrhus +4 66)

Fall of Rome, 3rd barbarian invasion 476)

Acacian Schism 482-5 19)

Origenists

Dionysius Ps., dates unknown)

Code of Justinian 529)

Hagia Sophia rebuilt 537)

Leontius of Byzantium +543)


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5th Ecum enical Council in Constantinople (553)

Romanos the Melodist (+55 5)

Jacob Baradeus (+578 )

Advent of Islam

Monothelites

Paulicians

John Climacus

+

649)

Pope Martin (+655 )

Maximus C onfessor (+6 62)

6th Ecum enical Council in Constantinople

(680-68 1)

Iconoclasts

Andrew of Crete (+74 0)

John of Damascus (+74 9)

7th Ecum enical Council in Nicaea (787)

Donation of C onstan tine (date unknown)

Iconoclasts

Filioquists

harlemagneI arolingians

(800 f.)

Theodore of Studion (+8 26 )

Triumph and Synodicon of Orthodoxy (842-843)

Constantine-Cyril and M ethodius (mid c.)

Encyclical Letter of Photius (867)

Bogomils (10th-14th c.)

Naum of Ochrid (+910)

Clement of Ochrid (+ 9 16)

Patriarchate of Bulgaria (917)

Baptism of Kievan Rus' (988)

Azymites

Platonists

Crusaders (1095-1 291)

Athanasius of Athos

+

1003)

Symeon the New Theologian

+

1022)

Mutual excommunications, West and East

(1054)

First Letter of Michael Cerularius to Peter of An-

tioch (1054)

Autocephaly of the Church of Georgia (1089)

Primary Chronicle of Rus'

Novgorodian Tradition (1 156-1471)

Novgorodian Questions of Kirik (mid c.)

Zonaras, Balsam on, Canon Lawyers (mid c.)

Finnish Orthodox Church

Crusaders occupy

Constantinople (1204-1261)


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Autonomy of the Church of Serbia (1219)

Tartar invasions of Rus (1237)

Alexander Nevskii

+

1263)

Barlaamites

Advent of Ottoman Empire

Patriarchate of the Church of Serbia (Pec, 1346)

Councils of Constantinople on Hesychasm

(1341, 1351)

Gregory Palamas

+

1359)

Battle of Kossovo (1389)

Sergius of Radonezh

+

1392)

Zyryan Mission, Stephen of Perm

Latinophones

Judaizing Heresy

Encyclical Letter of Mark of Ephesus (1440 -1441)

Autocephaly of the Church of Russia (1448)

Fall of Constantinople (1453)

Confession of Faith by Gennadius of Constan-

tinople (1455-1456)

Novgorodian Gennad ievskii Church Slavic

Bible (1499 f.)

Protestants

Joseph of Volokolamsk

+

1515)

M uscovite Council of 100 Chapters

Replies of Jeremias I to the Lutherans (1573-

1581)

Ostrog Church S lavic Bible (1580-81)

1st Patriarchate of the Church of Russia

(1589-1700)

Uniates

Old B elievers

Calvinists

Confession of Faith by Metrophanes Kritopoulos

(1625)

Cyril Lukaris, Patriarch of Constan tinople

+

1638)

Confession of Peter Moghila (1642, Council of

Jassy)

Kievan metropolitanate oins M oscow (1654)

Confession of Dositheus (1672, Synod of Beth-

lehem)

Freemasons

Spiritual Regulation of Peter

(25 January 1721)


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Answers to the Non-Jurors of the O rthodox Pa-

triarchs (1718,172 3)

Philokalia (1782, 1793)

Alaskan Mission , Herm an of Alaska (1794)

Makrakians

Tolstoyans

Radstockists

Platon Levshin, Metropolitan of Moscow

(+1812)

Seraphim of Sarov

+

1833)

Slavophile Movement (1840-1 850)

Reply to Pope Pius IX of the Orthodox Patriarchs

(1848)

Autocephaly of the Church of Greece (1850)

Autocephaly of the Church of Romania (1859,

1885)

Japanese Orthodox Church (1873)

Russian Bible completed (1875)

Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow

+

1879)

Reply to Pope Leo XI11 of the Synod of Con-

stantinople (1895)

Pashkovists

Imyabozhniki

Old Calendarists

Living Churchmen

Advent of Communism

Reform s of the Russian Church (1905-19 18)

Autocephalous Catholicate

of the Church of

Georgia (1917)

2nd Patriarchate of the C hurch of Russia, Tikhon

Belavin (19 18)

2nd Patriarchate of the Church of Serbia (1920)

African (U gandan) Orthodox Church (1920)

Encyclical Letters of the Patriarchate of C onstan-

tinople on the unity of Christians and the Ecu-

menical Movement (1920, 1952)

Autonomy of the Church of Czechoslovakia

(1923)

Autonomy of the Church of Finland (1923)

Autocephaly of the Church of Poland (1924)

Patriarchate of Rom ania (1925)

Autocephaly of the Church of Albania (1937)

Autocephaly of the Church of Czech and Slova-

kia (1951)


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Standing Conference of Orthodox

Bps.

in Amer-

ica 1960)

3rd Patriarchate of the Church of Bulgaria 1961)

Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in America

1970)

Autonomy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

1993)

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