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CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD

Throughout the first 1000 years of church history, councils were held, bringing church leaders together from around what we now call Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. However, gradually the Eastern churches, centred on the Byzantine Empire which had its capital in Constantinople, and the Western churches, centred on Rome, drifted apart in both their style and their leadership. In 1054, the two sections of the Christian church formally separated. Thereafter, Western Europe was dominated by the Roman Catholic Church, and the East by the Eastern Orthodox churches. MORE…