How westerns and people from country where Catholicism and Protestant are main religion see the Orthodoxy and orthodox...

Orthodox churches are very nice, but lack the grandiosity feel of gothic cathedrals.

I learned Orthodox Christianity exists when I was 12 or something, I was quite surprised to find out that there's a third "kind" of Christianity. I looked t pictures etc to find out more. It was pretty... strange for me since everything looked more foreign and distinct from both Catholicism and Protestantism to me. But I came quickly to respect it. It's definitely interesting. However, it's still not really on my mind, just not present enough around here.

As intellectual cancer.

You have shit taste my friend
There was rivalry before the split. The holy sees were at odds for power and it manifested in theological discrepancies that they tought to whoever they converted respectively. For instance, the Pope in Rome would have all converts to learn the bible in either Latin, Greek or Hebrew while the Archibishop in Constantinople would allow the bible to be translated in languages like old church slavonic.

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Slowly overtime western and eastern theology made differences from each other. Until the point that the theology of both churches were too different from each other to be called the same. Before this both churches were the Orthodox Catholics. The church was run the the modern Orthodox Church but they called themselves Catholic. Which is why you have the Emperor Justinian calling himself Catholic even though the church in his time was more or less the orthodox one.

Ngl, most people here are unaware of your particular set of beliefs (including myself) but like with any other branch of christianity, we'll most likely be ok with you. (At least you're not one of them muslims).

In America they are mostly associated with picrel and other ethnic festivals

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American Protestants just think of it as "Catholicism but for Slavs instead of Latinos."

that's not what happened at all
It used to be one church with many important priests, the most important being in Constantinople. Then the priest in Rome decided he wanted more power than everyone else, the other priests told him no so he split off and started his own "Roman Catholicism" and declared himself as the infallible representative of God on Earth. The End.

the common folk here barely know about Orthodox churches, except for some diasporas
my mother like the byzantine style icons I've bought to her in my travels
>inb4 Brazil isn't western

Google "Russia"

Lol

The most important patriarch was always the Pope until the schism. He was the first among equals until they broke off and the honour went to the Patriach of Constantinople.

Christianity spread and local variants become a thing. Many different sects were created. For example: Monophysites, Nestorians, Arians, Roman Catholics, Irish monks, Bosnian monks. Etc. Each denomination were based on the local culture. As time went on these religious sects were intertwined with political powers. Roman Catholicism with the Frankish Empire. Orthodoxy with the Byzantines. The Eastern ones were wiped out by Islam and Greeks. Western ones were uniformized under Rome.

>The most important patriarch was always the Pope until the schism.
Nope. Rome literally fell and was taken over by barbarians. That's why the seat of the church moved with the Roman power at the time to the East(ern Roman Empire).

This is true of all Western Europe except the Northern British aisles. They were evangelized by Christians out of North Africa and held on to their Orthodox roots for as long as they could before being Latinized

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It literally just came down to politics. Most theological differences were inconsequential liturgical matters, there are still Eastern Catholic churches that are not Orthodox but are tied to the Holy See. The majority of Eastern churches became Orthodox because they didn't want to be subservient to Rome.

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Do ruskies really

Based

Do proddies know that the Pope is actually weak as fuck and most Catholic countries always pushed him around as they wanted?

We dont

What are you on about? The Pope was still a Roman vassal as he was part of the Roman orthodox church. He was regularly invited to Constantinople and followed orders and could be replaced the same as any other Patriarch.

orthodox churches here tend to be these small comfy cabins

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Isn't half your country proddie? You should know