**If you are Roman Catholic, your church shared the same rich apostolic and doctrinal heritage as the Orthodox Church for the first thousand years of its history, since during the first millennium they were one and the same Church. Lamentably, in 1054, the Pope of Rome broke away from the other four Apostolic Patriarchates (which include Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem), by tampering with the Original Creed of the Church, and considering himself to be infallible. Thus your church is 1,000 years old. **
I wonder about this.
I don’t think the Orthodox on this thread agree about the Catholic Church being only 1,000 years old, just that the two churches have been divided (for whatever sad reasons) for that long.
freegards—and thank you for all your effort on FR