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HangrySkeptic t1_j2ey7lw wrote

Catholic is the OG Christian (or OC as it were). Every other branch of Christianity came from the Catholic tree trunk.

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JustinianImp t1_j2eyzmh wrote

Constantinople enters the chat….

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HangrySkeptic t1_j2f13si wrote

Have you never seen a tree that splits into two trunks?

The Schism of 1054 that split eastern and western practices was still a formal spilt from Western Christianity (i.e. Roman Catholicism) to recognize an equally long standing set of practices and traditions. There were other political factors that assisted the formal split and those do not negate the long standing traditions of the eastern church. I get it but it was still an ELI5 explanation.

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