The historic term used by the pre schisim Church was the Greek rite and the Latin rite of the Universal or Catholic faith. The English were Latin rite Orthodox and the article is designed to show that the English Church pre Norman invasion was in communion with the Greek Rite church in Constantinople because they did not accept the Filioque clause in the Nicean creed amongst other Papal innovations until the comming of William the Bastard aka Conqueror.
Few understand that the Orthodox do not consider themselves broken from Rome only that Rome broke away from the Church.
Catholic, as in Roman Catholic? Are you on drugs? There was ONE CHURCH before 1054, and that ONE CHURCH had Greek-rite and Latin-rite liturgy. The Church was one, catholic (small "c") and Apostolic.
There was no such thing as "Roman Catholic Church." Talk about historical revisionism!
"This is historical revisionism of the worst sort."
Absolutely!!! This kind of crap is nearly as bad as the revisionism that sees England as the final destination of the lost tribes of Israel. It is pure fantasy created by people with an axe to grind.
Britain has always been Rome's canonical territory as evidenced by the ancient basilicas that have been unearthed here long before the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Danes got here - not to mention the arrival of St. Augustine. I wonder how a revisionist thread about Ukraine and Russia being originally Catholic would go down?
England is Our Lady's dowry and will one day be restored to the orthodox Catholic Faith again. I don't expect most of the contributors to this thread to understand this though because:
a) They are not English
and
b) They don't understand the English phronema!
Hands off our history Johnny foreigners!!!!