The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches

      The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic both started out as one religion. However, it had split and the outcome was the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic.

      Let me tell you why the religion decided to split into two. The Byzantine Empire did not agree with Pope Leo II when he crowned Charlemagne as the Holy Roman Empire. Since Charlemagne had reunited most of the original Roman Empire's land back together.  The Byzantine Empire's emperor and people felt like they had just been slapped in the face, they felt insulted. Since the Byzantine Empire was the only part of the original Roman Empire that had survived. The crowning of Charlemagne made the relationship between the Eastern and Western Empire go bad. So, in the year of 1054 the two sides separated once again. The Eastern Church was then changed into the Greek Orthodox Church (a.k.a. the Eastern Orthodox Church). This action made by the Eastern Empire severed all of the ties that the Eastern Empire had with the Western Empire. 

      The two churches had different perspectives too. First of all, the Roman Catholic's (Western Empire)Pope had total control over the bishops(a senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to give out holy commands. definition taken from dictionary.com). The Roman Catholics also believed that Virgin Mary was conceived and born without sin. Whereas the Eastern Orthodox believed that Virgin Mary was able to sin, but did not. For they believed that if Virgin Mary could not sin, then that would mean that she isn't really human. Which would aso mean that Christ's flesh wasn't exactly human either.

      Well, there you go, that is a whole page about the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic came to be.