the leader of the Byzantine Church was called the Metropolitans.
Messiah
The Pope.
The unifying force in the Byzantine empire was the church . In the church the priests were the hiqhest class & this was also true in their society. The peasants were their worshippers. The church was a way to get the lower class to follow the government by connecting it to the leader . Social classes in church apply to the government .
The Eastern Orthodox Church was the church for the Byzantine Empire.
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They are quite similar. Byzantine church for example does not recognize a pope. Instead of pope each country which is byzantine church has its own church leader so there are about 15 leaders, for instance in Russia. Western church recognize pope as gods emissary on earth.
Greek Byzantine Catholic Church was created in 1907.
Most Orthodox churches call their leader a patriarch. However, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria uses the term pope. The Byzantine Rite of the Catholic Church as well as other eastern rites of the Catholic Church also uses the term patriarch, equivalent of an archbishop.
What type of church was most commonly constructed in the Byzantine Empire
St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church was created in 1918.
The Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church was also the Byzantine Emperor, head of both Church and State.
After the Great Schism, the Byzantine church became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church. The west branch was known as the Roman Catholic Church.