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Differences Of Christianity In Rome And Rome

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Emperor Constantine I made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, legalizing Christian worship in 313, which ended centuries of religious oppression and spread Christianity throughout Europe. Eventually, as the separate cultures began to develop, religious leaders from the Byzantine Empire and Rome refused to accept small differences in each other’s practices of Christianity; which led to the East-West Schism of the Roman Empire in 1054. Two distinct versions of Christianity emerged: Eastern Orthodoxy in the east and Roman Catholicism in the west. While the pope leads the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church has no single leader. Eastern Orthodoxy rejects the idea that all people inherit sins from the first humans who
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