What are the differences between Catholics and Orthodox Christians?
and where can i find orthodox christians?
i mean in which countries most?
im atheist so far
The East-West Schism, or the Great Schism, divided medieval Christendom into Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches, which later became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, respectively. Relations between East and West had long been embittered by political and ecclesiastical differences and theological disputes. Pope Leo IX and Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Cerularius, heightened the conflict by suppressing Greek and Latin in their respective domains. In 1054, Roman legates traveled to Cerularius to deny him the title Ecumenical Patriarch and to insist that he recognize the Roman Catholic claim to be the head and mother of the churches. Cerularius refused. The leader of the Latin contingent excommunicated Cerularius, while he excommunicated the legates.
The Western legate’s acts are of doubtful validity because Leo had died, while Cerularius’s excommunication applied only to the legates personally. Still, the Church split along doctrinal, theological, linguistic, political, and geographical lines, and the fundamental breach has never been healed. Western cruelty during the Crusades, the capture and sack of Constantinople in 1204, and the imposition of Latin Patriarchs made reconciliation more difficult. This included the taking of many precious religious artifacts and the destruction of the Library of Constantinople. On paper, the two churches actually reunited in 1274 (by the Second Council of Lyon) and in 1439 (by the Council of Florence), but in each case the councils were repudiated by the Orthodox as a whole, on the grounds that the hierarchs had overstepped their authority in consenting to reunification. In 1484, 31 years after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, a Synod of Constantinople repudiated the Union of Florence, marking the final breach. In 1965, the Pope and the Ecumenical Patriarch nullified the anathemas of 1054. Further attempts to reconcile the two bodies are ongoing.
A schism is a break in the Church’s authority structure and communion, different from a heresy, which means false doctrine. Church authorities have long recognized that the sacraments function even if their minister is in schism. There have been many other schisms, from the 2nd century until today, but none as significant as the one between East and West.
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December 27 2008 12:30 am | Uncategorized
* on 27 Dec 2008 at 6:06 am #
Catholics have confession, and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
We believe in the saints to intercede for us.
Orthodox do not believe in saints.
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Ignatius J. Reilly on 27 Dec 2008 at 6:54 am #
Virtually nothing. The Catholics are under the Pope of Rome, and the Orthodox are not. The Orthodox have a more ritualized worship style than the Catholics. Each Orthodox denomination (Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, etc) may use some of their own language in the service.
THere are plenty of Orthodox in America. Any major US city should have one ore more Orthodox churchs. Outside of the USA, mostly you will find them in Greece, and most middle European countries. The Orthodox are world-wide.
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CAE on 27 Dec 2008 at 7:35 am #
It depends on what you mean by orthodox
When someone refers to themselves as a Christian orthodox or otherwise
They mean they are a member of a protestant faith.
Any church where they consider members to be born again.
The Mormons are another example.
See Mennonites, amish and pentecosts for more info.
Catholics will usually say I’m Catholic. (They accept the Pope as Church leader) even though technically they belong to one branch of Christianity.
There is also the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches through out the world and they represent other kinds of Christianity.
Search Eastern Orthodox to find some of the info you are looking for
There are also denominations of Orthodox Catholicism, although they are seen as kind of a fringe group.
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omni on 27 Dec 2008 at 8:24 am #
The Catholics and the Orthodox Christians (which btw are both heavy overgeneralizations, but for the quick sake of argument…) both participate in the 7 Sacraments, and acknowledge the other's as valid. The Orthodox recognize the Holy See (Vatican), however there are several theological and doctrinal issues that separate the two – ie., Filioque, Original Sin, the Primacy of the Pope.
As far as where you can find Orthodox Christans "most" — The East of Europe, in Egypt and Asia, Russia, Greece, Servia, Montenegro, Rumania, and Bulgaria, four independent Churches in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, namely Carlovitz, Hermannstadt, Czernovitz, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and lastly the Church of Mount Sinai, consisting of one monastery separated from Jerusalem. One of these Churches, that of Bulgaria, is in schism with Constantinople since 1872. The total number of Orthodox Christians in the world is estimated variously as 95 to 100 million.
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Dr. Zoom Zoom 3.0 on 27 Dec 2008 at 8:41 am #
The East-West Schism, or the Great Schism, divided medieval Christendom into Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches, which later became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, respectively. Relations between East and West had long been embittered by political and ecclesiastical differences and theological disputes. Pope Leo IX and Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Cerularius, heightened the conflict by suppressing Greek and Latin in their respective domains. In 1054, Roman legates traveled to Cerularius to deny him the title Ecumenical Patriarch and to insist that he recognize the Roman Catholic claim to be the head and mother of the churches. Cerularius refused. The leader of the Latin contingent excommunicated Cerularius, while he excommunicated the legates.
The Western legate’s acts are of doubtful validity because Leo had died, while Cerularius’s excommunication applied only to the legates personally. Still, the Church split along doctrinal, theological, linguistic, political, and geographical lines, and the fundamental breach has never been healed. Western cruelty during the Crusades, the capture and sack of Constantinople in 1204, and the imposition of Latin Patriarchs made reconciliation more difficult. This included the taking of many precious religious artifacts and the destruction of the Library of Constantinople. On paper, the two churches actually reunited in 1274 (by the Second Council of Lyon) and in 1439 (by the Council of Florence), but in each case the councils were repudiated by the Orthodox as a whole, on the grounds that the hierarchs had overstepped their authority in consenting to reunification. In 1484, 31 years after the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, a Synod of Constantinople repudiated the Union of Florence, marking the final breach. In 1965, the Pope and the Ecumenical Patriarch nullified the anathemas of 1054. Further attempts to reconcile the two bodies are ongoing.
A schism is a break in the Church’s authority structure and communion, different from a heresy, which means false doctrine. Church authorities have long recognized that the sacraments function even if their minister is in schism. There have been many other schisms, from the 2nd century until today, but none as significant as the one between East and West.
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