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The Nicene Creed, which is professed by both Catholic and Orthodox Chrisitans makes a very specific statement about what the true Church is:

"We believe in one, holy catholic, and apostolic Church"

The Chruch is one when it is not spiritually and docttrinally divided against itself. If a Church is one then it can be identified as a whole cohesive church under one name. The Catholics are one - they are called the Catholic Chruch and all one billion Catholics throughout the world can be said to belong to one Church. It is not so with the Orthodox. It is not simply just 'the orthodox church' but several different orthodox churches (the Greek Orthodox, the Russian Orthodox, etc.) A Church cannot be one if it consists of many separate and disunited groups.

The church is catholic (with a lower-case c) when it is for all people, in all places, at all times. The Orthodox churches make distinctions based on ethnic differences and is therefore not for all people in all places.

Since the orthodox churches are clearly missing two of the four essentail elements of the Church, they obviously cannot be the true church of Christ.

For further reading see the four marks of the Church see the Catechism of the Catholic Church part one, section two, chapter three, article nine, paragraphs 811-870.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p123a9p3.htm

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