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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-12

Diadoche, a Visual History of the Early Church

diadoche.org ↗ · Oddly Specific · score 83.0
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An open-data project that maps the people, bishops, churches, councils, documents, works, and feasts connecting Jesus and the apostles to the Great Schism.

Why it surfaced

Diadoche turns a thousand years of church history into an explorable record: 2,320 people, 441 events, 1,626 works, 107 documents, 739 feasts, and 21 churches. Its unusually deliberate structure—People, Tree, World, Calendar, Sources, and Glosses—makes this feel less like a webpage than a small research instrument.

Ice Does Not Count

August 12’s newborn domains include a rule-bound archive of enormous sodas, 27 family stories cut from one afternoon, a disaster-supply map with a 24-hour freshness rule, and an ocean bell that rings only when six conditions agree.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-12 Domain Arrivals issue.