I didn’t say that you are stupid or ignorant. I said you were ignorant of Church history. Which you seem to prove by failing to address the issues and seeking to say I called you names. The church of the Middle East (Iraq, Syria, Persia, and etc) descended directly from the original Jerusalem church (from the Fundementalist/Pentecostal book of Acts) continued functioning until the time of the later Crusades. The so-called Roman Church was divided when the Roman Empire divided into East and West. So, which one of these three was “the Church”. The Roman Church only gained prominence because of Politics and Secular Power. Jesus has always had His ‘true Church’ of ‘true disciples and believers’ among almost every church. Here’s betting you really can’t answer this post.
Baldwin of Edessa, (later King Baldwin I of Jerusalem) was even adopted into an Armenian Christian family. Embarrassingly the ritual was meant for a child and he had to crawl out from under his new “mother”’s dress.
I also find it amusing that one of the main arguments that caused the rift between the Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches was what language the Mass was to be spoken in; Greek- the language that much of the New Testament was written in, or Latin- the language of those who crucified and scourged Christ.
Somehow I don't think Christ would consider this a fundamental distinction, and if HE did, I would tend to think he might weigh in on the Greek side. JMHO. :)