Catholicism vs Eastern Orthodox

Catholicism versus Eastern Orthodox comparison chart
	Catholicism	Eastern Orthodox
Place of worship	Church, chapel, cathedral, basilica.	Church
Second coming of Jesus	Affirmed.	Affirmed
Clergy	Heirarchial clergy in Holy Orders Deacons, monks, nuns, Priests and Bishops, other ranks are only offices (archibshop, cardinal Pope etc. although several other offices also exist)	Priests, Deacons, ArchDeacons, Bishops, Metroploitan(Patriarch)
Literal Meaning	catholic - from the Greek adjective καθολικός, (katholikos) meaning "general" or "universal".	orthodox- a union of Greek orthos ("straight" "correct" "true" "right") and doxa ("glory" as in Doxa Patri, "Glory to the Father")
Birth of Jesus	Virgin Birth, through God.	Virgin Birth
Founder	Jesus Christ, St. Peter the Apostle.	King Constantine of Rome, although not the founder, he led the Eastern Orthodox Empire(Byzantine Empire). Since as early as the 3rd century he was admitted to Eucamincal councils including many Bishops.
Scriptures	Holy Bible, a collection of 73 canonical books in two parts, 46 in the Old Testament, and 27 in the New Testament.	Bible: Both testaments, scriptures according to apostles.
Death of Jesus	Death by Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascended into Heaven	Death by Crucifixion
Marriage	Marriage is sacrament between one man and one woman. Divorce does not exist in Catholicism, but there is annulment (that the marriage was invalid to begin with) by competent church official.	Marriage is a mystical union between a man and a woman. Divorce is generally only allowed in cases of adultery, though there are exceptions.
Resurrection of Jesus	Affirmed	Affirmed
Day of worship	Worship should be a continual process in the lives of Roman Catholics. Sunday is not the only day Catholics can attend Church for Mass.	Sunday.
Use of statues and pictures	Crosses, statues and pictures are acceptable in Catholicism. Catholics widely use them as depictions of Christ, Mary, and the Saints.	Permitted, through Icons
Practices	Catholics are expected to participate in the liturgical life, celebrate and revere Jesus' sacrifice on the cross at Mass. The celebration of seven sacraments Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, Matrimony, Anointing of Sick, Holy Orders and Confession.	Adhereing to the teachings of Christ, and going to church. Not much different from other churches, but strict fundamentalist practice of worship, mysticism also main factor in practice.
Life after death	Eternal Salvation in Heaven; Eternal Damnation in Hell; Temporal third state before Heaven for those who desire purification, known as Purgatory.	You will need to pass through a trial, and you will be weighted based of your deeds in your life. Not neccasarily required to be Chrisitan to land in Heaven. At second coming, every soul will be re-judged.
Authority of Pope	Successor of St. Peter.	Denied. The Patriarch is the Orthodox version of the Pope.
Place of origin	Roman province of Judea, which is part of present-day Israel, Palestine and Lebanon	Byzantine Empire. But Chrisitanity in itself was founded by the Apostles and the followers of Christ, in a sense.
Concept of Deity	Believe in the Trinity. Three persons in one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.	Orthodox Christians believe in a single God who is both three and one (triune). The Father is the eternal source of the Godhead, from Whom the Son is begotten eternally and also from Whom the Holy Spirit proceeds eternally.
Branches	Latin rite & Eastern rite and as of 2008 the Anglo-Catholic derivative of Latin Rite; Orthodox Christianity.	Russian, Greek, Georgian, etc.. Orthodox (only difference is language). In Russia there is also a sect called the Old Believers, who are ultra-conservative.
About	Belonging to the Church Founded By Christ, when He chose St. Peter as His Rock (first Pope). Apostles creed gives summary of Catholic creed, man fell and Christ came to redeem mankind.	Eastern Orthodox Christians follow the teachings of Jesus and claim to be his original Church.
Status of women	Women are Equal to men and have the same dignity as men, but women are not eligible for Ordination in Catholicism. They can be religious (sister, or commonly called "Nun") and can lead many offices assisting the clergy within the church.	Women are allowed to become nuns, religious sisters, and deaconesses.
Geographical predominance	Catholicism has spread worldwide across all six settled continents, predominantly Europe, North, Central, and South America, Australia, Africa and New Zealand.	Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Greece, and Macedonia.
Introduction (from Wikipedia)	As the world's oldest and largest continuously functioning international institution, it has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.	The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also referred to as the Orthodox Church and Orthodoxy, is the second-largest Christian church in the world, with approximately 220 million baptised members.
Prophet	Moses, Abraham, John the Baptist, many others.	Jesus Christ
Rites	7 Sacraments: Baptism, Eucharist, Penance, Confirmation, Marriage, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick; exorcisms, blessings of objects, dedication of churches sacred garments installation into clerical offices. Roman Missal and eastern rites.	Church Prayer, Nicene Creed, Psalms, Kanons, and Marriages, Funerals, excorsim, excommunication (from eucharist).
Purgatory	Affirmed	An intermediate state between earth and heaven is recognized, but cleansing and purification occur in this life, not the next.
Definition	Universal; Apostolic succession; Papal authority.	Orthodox means "true", "right" and it varies from Cathloic which means "Universal"
Principle	Adam and Eve sinned, as have all subsequent human beings because God created us with a free will to make choices. Man was unable to adhere to laws of God, so Christ came as the ultimate sacrifice to reconcile us to God.	To retain the Holy creed and teachings of Christ as portrayed by the holy apostles.

Place of worship

Church, chapel, cathedral, basilica.

Church

Second coming of Jesus

Affirmed.

Affirmed

Clergy

Heirarchial clergy in Holy Orders Deacons, monks, nuns, Priests and Bishops, other ranks are only offices (archibshop, cardinal Pope etc. although several other offices also exist)

Priests, Deacons, ArchDeacons, Bishops, Metroploitan(Patriarch)

Literal Meaning

catholic - from the Greek adjective καθολικός, (katholikos) meaning "general" or "universal".

orthodox- a union of Greek orthos ("straight" "correct" "true" "right") and doxa ("glory" as in Doxa Patri, "Glory to the Father")

Birth of Jesus

Virgin Birth, through God.

Virgin Birth

Founder

Jesus Christ, St. Peter the Apostle.

King Constantine of Rome, although not the founder, he led the Eastern Orthodox Empire(Byzantine Empire). Since as early as the 3rd century he was admitted to Eucamincal councils including many Bishops.

Scriptures

Holy Bible, a collection of 73 canonical books in two parts, 46 in the Old Testament, and 27 in the New Testament.

Bible: Both testaments, scriptures according to apostles.

Death of Jesus

Death by Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascended into Heaven

Death by Crucifixion

Marriage

Marriage is sacrament between one man and one woman. Divorce does not exist in Catholicism, but there is annulment (that the marriage was invalid to begin with) by competent church official.

Marriage is a mystical union between a man and a woman. Divorce is generally only allowed in cases of adultery, though there are exceptions.

Resurrection of Jesus

Affirmed

Day of worship

Worship should be a continual process in the lives of Roman Catholics. Sunday is not the only day Catholics can attend Church for Mass.

Sunday.

Use of statues and pictures

Crosses, statues and pictures are acceptable in Catholicism. Catholics widely use them as depictions of Christ, Mary, and the Saints.

Permitted, through Icons

Practices

Catholics are expected to participate in the liturgical life, celebrate and revere Jesus' sacrifice on the cross at Mass. The celebration of seven sacraments Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, Matrimony, Anointing of Sick, Holy Orders and Confession.

Adhereing to the teachings of Christ, and going to church. Not much different from other churches, but strict fundamentalist practice of worship, mysticism also main factor in practice.

Life after death

Eternal Salvation in Heaven; Eternal Damnation in Hell; Temporal third state before Heaven for those who desire purification, known as Purgatory.

You will need to pass through a trial, and you will be weighted based of your deeds in your life. Not neccasarily required to be Chrisitan to land in Heaven. At second coming, every soul will be re-judged.

Authority of Pope

Successor of St. Peter.

Denied. The Patriarch is the Orthodox version of the Pope.

Place of origin

Roman province of Judea, which is part of present-day Israel, Palestine and Lebanon

Byzantine Empire. But Chrisitanity in itself was founded by the Apostles and the followers of Christ, in a sense.

Concept of Deity

Believe in the Trinity. Three persons in one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Orthodox Christians believe in a single God who is both three and one (triune). The Father is the eternal source of the Godhead, from Whom the Son is begotten eternally and also from Whom the Holy Spirit proceeds eternally.

Branches

Latin rite & Eastern rite and as of 2008 the Anglo-Catholic derivative of Latin Rite; Orthodox Christianity.

Russian, Greek, Georgian, etc.. Orthodox (only difference is language). In Russia there is also a sect called the Old Believers, who are ultra-conservative.

About

Belonging to the Church Founded By Christ, when He chose St. Peter as His Rock (first Pope). Apostles creed gives summary of Catholic creed, man fell and Christ came to redeem mankind.

Eastern Orthodox Christians follow the teachings of Jesus and claim to be his original Church.

Status of women

Women are Equal to men and have the same dignity as men, but women are not eligible for Ordination in Catholicism. They can be religious (sister, or commonly called "Nun") and can lead many offices assisting the clergy within the church.

Women are allowed to become nuns, religious sisters, and deaconesses.

Geographical predominance

Catholicism has spread worldwide across all six settled continents, predominantly Europe, North, Central, and South America, Australia, Africa and New Zealand.

Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Greece, and Macedonia.

Introduction (from Wikipedia)

As the world's oldest and largest continuously functioning international institution, it has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also referred to as the Orthodox Church and Orthodoxy, is the second-largest Christian church in the world, with approximately 220 million baptised members.

Prophet

Moses, Abraham, John the Baptist, many others.

Jesus Christ

Rites

7 Sacraments: Baptism, Eucharist, Penance, Confirmation, Marriage, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick; exorcisms, blessings of objects, dedication of churches sacred garments installation into clerical offices. Roman Missal and eastern rites.

Church Prayer, Nicene Creed, Psalms, Kanons, and Marriages, Funerals, excorsim, excommunication (from eucharist).

Purgatory

Affirmed

An intermediate state between earth and heaven is recognized, but cleansing and purification occur in this life, not the next.

Definition

Universal; Apostolic succession; Papal authority.

Orthodox means "true", "right" and it varies from Cathloic which means "Universal"

Principle

Adam and Eve sinned, as have all subsequent human beings because God created us with a free will to make choices. Man was unable to adhere to laws of God, so Christ came as the ultimate sacrifice to reconcile us to God.

To retain the Holy creed and teachings of Christ as portrayed by the holy apostles.

Catholicism vs. Eastern Orthodox

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