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Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
- One of the three great divisions of Christianity ; the others are the Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic Church . The Catholic and Orthodox churches were originally united, but they parted in the eleventh century, when they differed over several points of doctrine, including the supreme authority of the pope , which Orthodox Christians reject.
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It is an independent Eastern Orthodox church headed by a patriarch in Bucharest.
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