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Christianity
Christianity
The Dalai Lama is the leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. THis makes him a Buddhist in the same way that the Pope is the leader of the "Roman Catholic" branch of Christianity.
An organized branch of Christianity is called denomination.
In the last 300 years of the Roman Empire Christians were imprisoned and tortured. When the Emperor Constantine I the Great was ruling the Roman Empire Christianity was adopted as the state religion and transferred the capital to the Eastern part of his Empire and named the city New Rome [later Constantinople]. For 10 centuries Christianity was united. In the year 1054 dogmatic differences separated the Christian Church to the Western Roman Church with the Pope as leader and the East Orthodox Church with the Patriarch of Constantinople as leader.
There are several types of Christianity, and there are a number of different leaders. The branch of Christianity with the largest membership is the Roman Catholic Church, which is currently lead by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI.
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The largest religion in Western Europe is Catholicism, which is the largest branch of Christianity. However, the fastest growing "religion" in Western Europe is no religion, as more and more Europeans in general are becoming unaffiliated or recognized Atheists.
The Christianity of the western part of the Roman Empire was originally called Western or Latin Christianity. Later it came to be called the Catholicism.
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There is no single person who is the leader of all of Christianity. The largest branch of Christianity, the Roman Catholic Church, is led by Pope Benedict XVI. Various other denominations have their own leaders, or in some cases do not have leaders. It could also be argued that Jesus Christ is the leader of all Christians, but if that is so, it is a remote kind of leadership.
Western Leader was created in 1963.