The History of the Catholic Church Quiz

Which Pope was not a priest, but became Pope by his reputation alone. He was reputed for laying the ground work for the Catholic Church in Rome, organizing the lives of saints, and martyrs.

What did the Japanese use to remember the Eucharist despite the execution and expulsion of all clergy.

This Bishop was executed by the orders of his best friend who was King of England?

Pope Boniface VIII sent the Papal Bull Ausculta Fili (Listen Boy) to which French King

The conversion of the Vikings from Norse to Catholicism by most historians is due to what group?

This saint entered a life of poverty, and was rejected from having the sacrament of Orders. He spent his life as a beggar of Rome. He was known for being disliked for bucking social convention.

What Supreme Court ruling prohibited the removal of all private education facilities in the United States.

Jesuit missionaries discovered which plant in Peru in the 17th century? They proclaimed it's religious symbolism.

Who wrote the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum?

Most of the early martyrs in the Catholic Church were?

This saint was murdered in his garden with his flock during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion.

Who is the founder of the monastery of Fulda?

This naturalist was a Professor of Cologne, Paris. He was a Dominican monk, and conducted his own experiments, philosophy especially Aristotle.

What miracle revealed by Saint Juan Diego that Christ came for all people not just Europeans?

Which saint was born but not baptized then died, and seven years later returned to life, and finally baptized?

Which saint did not walk on water?

Which Roman general is in directly responsible for the death of Saint Augustine by his military decisions 430 CE?

Which was the first of the stylites?

This saint traversed the Atlantic before Christopher Columbus?

This Saint refused to reveal the confession of the Queen of Bohemia's sins to her husband King Wenceslaus?

In the Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales A chapter called the Parson's Tale which saint was not mentioned?

What saint was mentioned in the Second Nun's tale in Canterbury tales?

Which Lithuanian chronicle promoted Catholicism in USSR Lithuania?

In the Penitential ascribed by Albers to Bede, which is the punishment for killing a monk or cleric?

According to the Cannon's of Saint Patrick when is a child to be baptized.

Which saint gave this quote "Wherever this bell sound let the power of enemies retreat, so also the shadow of phantoms, the assault of whirlwinds, the stroke of lightning, the harm of thunders... and every spirit of the storm wind."

Which of these movements was started by Peter Waldo?

This Lay movement was supported by Pope Innocent II

Which Pope sent Augustine of Canterbury to evangelize Britain?

Which English King was converted by Augustine of Canterbury?

In 1618 William Slavata, Jaroslav Martinic, and Frabricius were thrown out a window in Prague is called what?

There are five saints called Lupus which one begged on his death bed that condemned prisoners be set free?

What is the feast day of Saint Lucifer? (No not Lucifer the Light bearer and fallen angel) He was a Bishop of Cagliari a virulent polemist and enemy of the Arians

This Pope was mocked by a Grimm's Fairytale called the tale of three languages.

Who developed the two swords theory?

Which is not a Christian Queen who married a pagan King and converted her husband

Who was the bishop that prepared to march on Rome to become Pope, but was thwarted by his own brother?

To diminish the influence of kings and princes. Nicholas the II created what?

The term "Going to Canossa," revives from the quarrel from?

Who was the first female religious to earn a PHD in mathematics in the United States?

What was the original name of The Knights of Malta?

William Langland wrote The Vision of William Concerning Piers The Ploughman to protest

The Black Death from 1347 - 1349 greatly depleted the clergy during the crisis, but what happened after that was a deep concern?

Except in monastaries the introduction of this instrument inspired new music at Mass?

Which Pope commissioned Michelanglo to paint the Sistine Chapel?

Who was the first to perfect three-dimensional painting in The Adoration of The Lamb?

Cardinal Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros was known for reforming the Catholic Church who was he confessor too?

The Roman Penitential what is the punishment for being a wizard (mathmaticus) that is takes away the mind of a man by the invocation of a demons, he shall what?

How did the Japanese remember the catechism despite no clergy or literature survived.

Which city did the surviving Catholic Japanese live in?

The Chinese people had two major grievances with the Roman Catholic Churches nuns during the 1940's -1900, What were the two grievances.

What is the name of the 77th Pope?

According to P. E. Manni da Massino, what is the Tarusc word for priest created and used by the Omrellai

This Italian Jesuit chronicled the grammar of what Spanish conquered language?

St. John Berchmans was a Jesuit, and died without committing the least deliberate fault. He became a Jesuit on?

A Middle Ages story was when the Apostles opened the Virgin Mary's tomb they found it empty except for what?

The influential book The Consolations of Philosophy was written by

The First Crusade against a Christian King was?

The Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 forbade priests from doing what?

St. Aper was the bishop of?

These saints were brother and sister and died together?

Who was the author of The spiritual Espousals, Opera Omnia, the Seven Steps of the Ladder of Spiritual Love, and Loves Gradatory?

The Liber Miraculorum Sancte Fidis was written by?

In the Litany of Peter Prince of the Apostles What is the seventh mention of St. Peter

According to Apocrypha the good thief was called

A draper's assistant named Thomas Sherwood was drawn and quartered for saying?

St. Omer had a tag a long saint in his hagiography what was his name?

Which Saint did Pope Celestine III not canonize as a Saint?

Pope Pius VII erected this Diocese in 1820?

What is the only thing known about Pope Landus (Lando) reign

Saint Rita of Cascia feast day is?

The Traditional Litany of Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, Saint in Bari what is his seventh pray for us?

Sir Henry Cole in 1843 invented the Christmas Card to create a more sacred Christmas. Who was the artist?

At the Council of Constance who were the two people that were burned at the stake?

Lay woman Margery Kempe died around 1433 what was she known for?

What is known as the phantom heresy?