Portal:Eastern Christianity

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Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions which developed in the Balkans, the Near East/Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe over several centuries of religious antiquity. Its division from Western Christianity has as much to do with culture, language, and politics as theology.
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The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is one of the fourteen or fifteen autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. It is headed by the Ecumenical Patriarch, who has the status of "first among equals" among the world's Orthodox bishops. According to tradition, it has its roots in the preaching of the Apostle Andrew in Constantinople (then Byzantium) in AD 38. Its current leader is Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I.

Christianity in Byzantium existed from the time of the Twelve Apostles, but it was in the year 330 that the Roman Constantine the Great moved his imperial capital to the small Greek town of Byzantium, renaming it Constantinople. From that time, the importance of the church there grew, along with the influence of its bishop.

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