Christianization is a term for the specific type of change that occurs when someone or something has been or is being converted to Christianity. Christianization has, for the most part, spread through missions by individual conversions but has also, in some instances, been the result of coercion from governments or military leaders. Christianization is also the term used to designate the conversion of previously non-Christian practices, spaces and places to Christian uses and names. In a third manner, the term has been used to describe the changes that naturally emerge in a nation when sufficient numbers of individuals convert, or when secular leaders require those changes. Christianization of a nation is an ongoing process.
baptism of Christ by Piero
modern baptism at Eastside Christian church
The Communion of the Apostles by James Tissot
Confirmation class of 1918 at Cape Mount
Justinian I, also known as Justinian the Great, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565.
Detail of a contemporary portrait mosaic of Justinian dressed in a royal purple chlamys and jeweled stemma in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, AD 547
The ancient town of Tauresium, the birthplace of Justinian I, located in today's North Macedonia. Parts of the town had been destroyed during Justinian's life.
Mosaic of Theodora, Justinian's wife
The Carmagnola, an imperial porphyry head in Venice thought to represent Justinian
