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The early Christian church was sometimes called the Catholic Church or universal church. A thousand years later the Orthodox Church split from the Catholic Church
The term "Catholic" applied to Christians in the first century. Catholicism and Christianity were often used interchangeably in the early church.


Today the term Catholic and Christian mean the same thing to a Catholic Christian and different meanings for a non-Catholic Christian.


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