GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -At first, the Byzantines were Catholic. However, as the centuries progressed, religious and political differences between the Byzantines and the Catholic Church led to the Great Schism of 1054. This event marked the birth of a new branch of Christianity: the Eastern Orthodox faith.

Detailed explanation-2: -7. The Empire gave rise to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Byzantium was almost always a Christian empire, but over the centuries its Greek-speaking church developed distinct liturgical differences from the Catholic, Latin-speaking church in the West.

Detailed explanation-3: -The official name of the Eastern Orthodox Church is the “Orthodox Catholic Church". It is the name by which the church refers to itself and which is issued in its liturgical or canonical texts. Eastern Orthodox theologians refer to the church as Catholic.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jul 16, 1054 CE: Great Schism. On July 16, 1054, Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Cerularius was excommunicated, starting the “Great Schism” that created the two largest denominations in Christianity-the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faiths.