http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church
Please inform yourself a little bit ProJewCatholic!
My G-d I can't believe what kind of discussion we have in here!
What is wrong with you people?!?!
The same old, same old, IT'S NOT ABOUT ORTHODOX vs CATHOLICS, IT'S ABOUT ISLAM SPREADING WHILE WE ARE FIGHTING!!!!
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT??
Jasmina and ProJewCatholic,
As I already said the first Christians were not Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, or Coptics. The first Christians were just that--Christians. The only division in the early church, if you want to call it a division, was between Jewish and Gentile (i.e. Greek or Roman) Christians. The denominations and branches we see today did not exist!
At the Council of Chalcedon (450), we started to see a distinction between the Eastern Church in Constantinople (what would become the Orthodox Church) and the Western Church in Rome (the RCC). Prior to that it did not exist. Protestantism did not come about whatsoever before the 1300s (starting with John Wycliffe and Jan Hus, who were both burned at the stake for heresy under the anti-Semitic, Crusaderist Holy Roman regimes of the time) and did not really take formal shape until the early 1500s (under Ulrich Zwingli and then Martin Luther and John Calvin).
Give up this childish fighting or you should both be banned.