Religion

• Pope John VIII
  Pope John VIII
  Pope John VIII was pope from December 13, 872 to December 16, 882. He is often considered one of the ablest pontiffs of the ninth century and the last bright spot on the papacy until Leo IX two centuries later....
  
   issues the bull Industriae Tuae, creating an independent ecclesiastical province in Great Moravia
  Great Moravia
  Great Moravia was a Slavic state that existed in Central Europe and lasted for nearly seventy years in the 9th century whose creators were the ancestors of the Czechs and Slovaks. It was a vassal state of the Germanic Frankish kingdom and paid an annual tribute to it. There is some controversy as...
  
   with Archbishop Saint Methodius as its head. The Old Church Slavonic
  Old Church Slavonic
  Old Church Slavonic or Old Church Slavic was the first literary Slavic language, first developed by the 9th century Byzantine Greek missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius who were credited with standardizing the language and using it for translating the Bible and other Ancient Greek...
  
   is recognized as the fourth liturgical language, besides Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
• A bishopric is established in Nitra
  Nitra
  Nitra is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra. With a population of about 83,572, it is the fifth largest city in Slovakia. Nitra is also one of the oldest cities in Slovakia and the country's earliest political and cultural center...
  
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