the byzantine orthodox church split from the roman catholic church in 1453.
when did the byzantine orthodox church split from the roman catholic church?
1453
the common name of the church, "eastern orthodox church", is a shortened practicality that helps to avoid confusions in casual use. from ancient times through the first millennium, greek was the most prevalent shared language in the demographic regions where the byzantine empire flourished, and greek, being the language in which the new testament was written, was the primary liturgical language of the church. for this reason, the eastern churches were sometimes identified as "greek" (in contrast to the "roman" or "latin" church, which used a latin translation of the bible), even before the great schism of 1054. after 1054, "greek orthodox" or "greek catholic" marked a church as being in communion with constantinople, much as "catholic" did for communion with rome. this identification with greek, however, became increasingly confusing with time. missionaries brought orthodoxy to many regions without ethnic greeks, where the greek language was not spoken. in addition, struggles between rome and constantinople to control parts of southeastern europe resulted in the conversion of some churches to rome, which then also used "greek catholic" to indicate their continued use of the byzantine rites. today, many of those same churches remain, while a very large number of orthodox are not of greek national origin, and do not use greek as the language of worship. "eastern", then, indicates the geographical element in the church's origin and development, while "orthodox" indicates the faith, as well as communion with the ecumenical patriarchate of constantinople. there are additional christian churches in the east that are in communion with neither rome nor constantinople, who tend to be distinguished by the category named "oriental orthodox". while the church continues officially to call itself "catholic", for reasons of universality, the common title of "eastern orthodox church" avoids casual confusion with the roman catholic church.
eastern orthodox church
bullet::::- georgian orthodox church*





























bullet::::- cypriot orthodox church





























bullet::::- church of greece





























bullet::::- albanian orthodox church





























bullet::::- polish orthodox church*





























bullet::::- czech and slovak orthodox church*





























bullet::::- orthodox church in america





























section::::list of churches of byzantine liturgical tradition.:greek-catholic churches.





























bullet::::- albanian greek catholic church





























bullet::::- belarusian greek catholic church





























bullet::::- bulgarian greek catholic church





























bullet::::- byzantine catholic church of croatia and serbia





























bullet::::- greek byzantine catholic church





























bullet::::- melkite greek catholic church





























bullet::::- hungarian greek catholic church





























bullet::::- italo-albanian catholic church





























bullet::::- macedonian greek catholic church





























bullet::::- romanian church united with rome, greek-catholic





























bullet::::- russian greek catholic church
byzantine rite