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To: Young Werther
Rome fell in 407AD. Constatine had formed the Eastern Roman Empire because of a schism of the Catholic Religion. His home was Byzantium and he remaned it Constantinople. By the 5th Century the Byzantine Empire stretched from Northeast Greece across Asia Minor.

Huh? The above is historically incorrect for so many different reasons.
21 posted on 08/25/2009 10:20:26 AM PDT by Antoninus (Sarah Palin will soon have more fans on Facebook than most major newspapers have readers.)
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To: Antoninus; Young Werther

Young Werther your info is a little off.

Constantine ruled a united empire which became divided again after his death - the division was administrative along cultural lines for ease of administration not for any Christian schism.

This division created the Latin church and the Greek church that later became the Catholic Church is it is now called in the west and the Orthodox Church (though both churches call themselves the same name officially - One Holy and Apostolic Catholic Church - ‘catholic’ is a Greek word that means ‘universal’).


28 posted on 08/25/2009 12:17:42 PM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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