Christianization Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Bohemia/Czech lands === {{main|Christianization of Bohemia|Christianization of Moravia}} What was Bohemia forms much of the Czech Republic, comprising the central and western portions of the country.{{sfn|Friese|2017}} [[File:Czech Rep. - Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia IV (en).png|thumb|Czech Republic – Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia IV (en)|alt=map showing Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia]] Significant missionary activity only took place after Charlemagne defeated the [[Avar Khanate|Avar Khaganate]] several times at the end of the 8th century and beginning of the ninth centuries.{{sfn|Ivanič|2016|pp=124–125}} The first Christian church of the Western and Eastern Slavs (known to written sources) was built in 828 by [[Pribina]] (c. 800–861) ruler and Prince of the [[Principality of Nitra]].{{sfn|Goldberg|2006|pp=16, 83–84}} In 880, Pope John VIII issued the bull ''Industriae Tuae'', by which he set up the independent ecclesiastical province with Archbishop Methodius as its head.{{sfn|Ivanič|2016|p=128}} Relics withstood the fall of Great Moravia.{{sfn|Ivanič|2016|p=129}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page