Eastern Catholic Churches

In the Late Middle Ages, Europe was plagued with corruption on a large scale. The Catholic Church was suffering in a state of uncertainty and lack of a strong foundation and person of authority. The Great Schism of 1054 greatly affected Europe and the rest of the modern world. This great rift between the Eastern and Western Churches caused the rapid development of each side in different ways. What were the effects of this schism on the Eastern part of Europe? The Eastern Catholic Church refers to the Eastern Christian culture, traditions and the churches which developed on the Eastern side of the Great Schism of 1054. Romania, Greece, Serbia,Russia, Bulgaria, Georgia, the Balkans, Armenia, the Middle East, Asia Minor, Northeastern Africa…

The Eastern church was founded by when the great schism happened. They had many beliefs. Before they split, the people had an argument whether Jesus was fully human, or fully divine. A group of bishops made the Nicene Creed to state that Jesus was both fully human and divine. The Eastern Orthodox didn’t believe in icons. They thought it was against the bible, and do not support it. The emperor is the head of the church, while the patriarchs handled day to day affairs. The emperor had the power…

Priestly Celibacy Certainly, celibacy, as a disciplinary norm of the Roman Catholic Church, is often subject to scrutiny and analysis in the modern age. It is due to the differences that occur within our communities and the divisions. These differences and divisions are often caused by the disapproval of some of those who have freely embraced the so-called priestly ministry in our Church. However, most of the time the ecclesiastical practice of priestly celibacy is not discussed under the right…

Fasting in the Catholic Faith doesn’t appear to be one of choice but one of obeying the rules or Law. “The rules for fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church are set forth in the Code of Canon Law (for the Roman Catholic Church) and in the Code of Oriental Churches (for the Eastern Catholic Church). The Canon Law that the followers of the Catholic Faith are to follow in relation to fasting are Canons 1250-1252. There are several laws that the Catholic need to adhere to in regards to…

Visiting St. Paul’s Parish Princeton For this field observation project, I chose to attend the 5pm Sunday service at St. Paul’s Parish in Princeton. Growing up in the Pentecostal tradition, I have become at home in free worship and contemporary liturgy. Most of the church’s I’ve attended in the past had many informal elements in their liturgy, designed to make new-comers feel a little less awkward and part of the church family. As a new Methodist, I have found many Methodist churches…

the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches dominate the religious beliefs of today, their beginnings were set in an important period and they were both powerful and accomplished. Society between these two, was supported by their community. Respectably, society in these churches are comprised of their beliefs, services, government, literature, icons, and clergy. As religion is at the center of every community, the Catholic and Orthodox churches held fast to their beliefs. Roman Catholics and…

contributed to the split between the Eastern and Western church known as the Great Schism. I will also explain how as a result of the Great Schism, the Eastern Church and Western Church became more outlying as a result of different theologies. The big break of 1054 culminated a series of ruptures and reunions occurring over centuries and involving a range of differences-not…

branches within Christianity, with further dominations under them; the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholic, and the Protestant Tradition. But the church was not always separated in this way. In 1054, after centuries of small, but compounding, differences, the Eastern Orthodox church separated from the Roman Catholic (Western) church, an event that is now known as the Great Schism. Two Christian empires existed in 11th-century Europe, the Roman Empire, centered in Rome, and the Byzantine Empire,…

are religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their prayers” (Carnine 62). The icons made the emperor feel over powered because he believed they were used as idol worship or believing in a false god (Carnine 62). The pope disagreed with this decision because he supported the use of icons…

some minor disagreements. Because of this, it is practically impossible that the results of the Great Schism, two disputing churches, are as distant from each other as they claim to be. Though highly controversial among modern-day Christians, the Western Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches are more similar in doctrine and beliefs than they are different in practice. In 1054, the Great Schism, or the East-West Schism, permanently separated the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Western Papacy. At…