What was the role of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire? Text to speech
A:A. The Church played a central role in government as well as in the daily lives of the people.
B:B. The Church controlled the empire, and the patriarch of Constantinople was the empire's top leader.
C:C. The Church was only one of many different religious institutions in the empire.
D:D. The Church was significant to a small number of people in the empire, but it played no major role.