Which term refers to the Russian form of Christianity brought from the Byzantine Empire?

• A. Russian Orthodoxy
• B. Roman Catholicism
• C. Protestantism
• D. Islam

Answer: (A)

Recognize the branch of Christianity that traveled with the Byzantine world into Russia. When the Byzantine Empire spread Eastern Christian practices, Russia adopted that same tradition after Christianizing the region around 988. This form of Christianity—often called Russian Orthodoxy—shares its liturgy, theology, and church structure with other Eastern Orthodox churches and grew into a distinctly Russian expression centered in Moscow. It represents the Eastern Christian path that Russia followed, separate from Western Catholic and later Protestant traditions, and clearly separate from Islam.

Roman Catholicism is the Western form centered on Rome, Protestantism is a later Western European reform movement, and Islam is a different religion altogether.