Editing Christianization (section)

=== 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}}