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Byzantine Empire: Greek Patriarch
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The state now commonly referred to as the Byzantine Empire was never known by that name in its own time. It was called the Roman Empire or, in later centuries, Romania. Its people, who spoke mostly Koine Greek, called themselves Romans (in Greek, Romaíoi).
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The influence of Roman customs was very great in the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Byzantine people called themselves Romans, they spoke Latin like Romans, and they dressed in Roman clothes. They inherited the Greek and Roman love of learning and preserved many documents from these civilizations in their libraries.
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Section 3 explores the important role that the Eastern Orthodox Church played in the Byzantine Empire. The section explains how the argument over icons, the Patriarch's refusal to recognize the Pope as head of the Church, and the Pope's crowning of Charlemagne as Emperor of the Romans contributed to the split between the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic churches.
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