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Who did the Eastern Orthodox Church not accept the authority of?
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Following the Council of Nicaea, the Church structure came under the ultimate authority of five Metropolitans - the bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria and Carthage. However, successive bishops of Rome felt that they were first among equals, and eventually the undisputed leader of the Christian Church.
The Eastern Orthodox Churches did not accept the authority of the bishop of Rome to insert the Filioque clause, which holds that the Father and the Son are equally divine, into the Nicene Creed without agreement by a Council.
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What was the dispute that split the medieval Christian church?
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What makes a Christian group protestant instead of Catholic?
Refusal to accept the office of the Pope as the supreme authority over the Church, refusal to accept the Dogmas of the faith, refusal to accept the authority of the church councils, refusal to accept the 7 sacraments, and or lack of a valid Priesthood (As opposed to Orthodox with a Valid Priesthood). Their Church is founded by a man, less then 500 years old, based on the 5 solas, Lacks the authority aside from the bible.
How is the Eastern Orthodox Church different from the Roman Catholic Church?
Catholicism is under the authority of the Pope, while Orthodoxy is under the authority of its various Patriarchs.Roman Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church is the living, breathing, Church founded by Our Blessed Lord before He left this earth. The Eastern Orthodox left the Church in the eleventh century and have pretty much remained unchanged since then. They only accept the early Councils of the Church as infallible, their cultural differences are non-existent, as when the Orthodox broke away from the Church, each Orthodox Church split in two, half remaining with Rome, and half going their own way; so to this day, there is a Greek Uniate Rite, an Armenian Uniate Rite, etc. Uniate rites are full rites within the Catholic Church, which like the Latin Rite, have their own Mass, their own language, and their own way of performing the sacraments. We usually only think of the Latin Rite when we think of the Roman Church but this is incorrect, the Greek Rite is every bit as much the Catholic Church as the Latin Rite is, we in the West are just more familiar with the Latin Rite as it is larger and the Rite that most of us were raised in.
Who was the eastern orthodox church leader or authority?
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If you are married in the Russian Orthodox Church is it possible to be married again in a Roman Catholic Church?
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Does the Greek orthodox church believe in the virgin birth?
The Eastern Orthodox Church believes in the Immaculate Conception of Jesus Christ's birth by the Blessed Virgin Mary, but it does not accept the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary's birth.
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They were not. Both the Orthodox and Roman Catholics accept the decision of the Seventh Ecumenical Council which declared that the veneration of icons is essential in the Christian Church. The split (or schism) was due to other causes, such as Papal claims of supremacy, and the change to the Creed.
What is the primary difference between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church?
It's just a difference in administration. The beliefs are identical. If a Greek moves to Russia, he worships in a Russian Orthodox church, and vice versa. In the US, there will ultimately be only one administration, an American Orthodox church. At the moment there are several administrations, each under the supervision of the national church of another country. The Greek and the Russian are the largest of those administrations. Orthodox Christians in the US are free to worship at any Orthodox church, regardless of national origin. Those who are from an Orthodox country have so far tended more often to choose a church under the supervision of that country's national church. In addition, there may be some local variations in custom and tradition. For instance, compare the iconography of Russia with Greek icons, and both of those with Coptic. They are all icons, but look a little different based on local tradition. The Faith is one, but the Orthodox Church does not shy from embracing (and transforming) native cultures. Yeah theres realy not much of a difference just the languge,everything is the same icons church equipment and church dates.
What is the significance of the year 1050 for Eastern Orthodox Christians?
The year is when the Great Schism occured, separating the Catholic and Eastern Orhtodox Church. In 325AD there were hundreds of chuches, each with its own teachings, views of Jesus and how to worship him. This was becasue of the mixing of the local faiths with the teachings of the individual apostles. In 325, Constantine the Great saught to unite all of the churches and he did, under the Holy ROman Orthodox Church. Under the new faith, each church would be its own entity under the Orthdox faith. The largest member church was the Western Church. Others included the Coptic, Greek, Armenian, Egyptian, Antioch and Palestinian Church. After 700 years of coperative rule, the Wester Churches split because they wanted their own supreme leader because of their vast size. So in 1056 the Roman Catholic church split from the Orthodox faith, and because the remaining members of ORthodoxy were in Eastern Europe we rtend to call them Eastern Orthodox.
Why did the Coptic Orthodox church break away from the other Orthodox churches?
Not only the Coptic, but also the Armenian, Syrian, Ethiopian and a few others form a group called the Oriental Orthodox Churches. They did not accept the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451 since it declared Christ to be "in two natures" (human and divine), rather than "from two natures". The difference is merely semantical (although some Eastern Orthodox would disagree), a misunderstanding at the time, fuelled by political issues. Efforts to unite the two strands of Orthodoxy are underway, but unlikely to succeed, given this may split the Eastern Orthodox (eg Greek, Russian) communion in two.
