WEST SLAVIC CHURCH COLLECTION

West Slavic groups are diverse variety of ethnic groups in Eastern Europe, and in this context also include Southern Slavic groups. Traditionally this list includes: Poles, Bohemians, Moravians, Slovaks, and Silesians for western Slavs, and: Serbo-Croats, Bulgarians, Slovenes, and Macedonians. The appearance of these groups threw much of the episcopal authority of Christianity into chaos, as the question of who would be responsible for their conversion was a point of dispute between Rome and Constantinople. What resulted was a sense of split loyalty, with West Slavs becoming largely Catholic, and with Southern Slavs becoming mostly Orthodox. Moreover, there would be largely questions regarding the nature of the various Slavic tongues, which would be transliterated into the Latin alphabet, and also into a new alphabet, Cyrillic, under the missionary work of Sts. Cyril and Methodius.