Major+Groups

media type="custom" key="7879181" The major groups in Christianity are: Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestant.

==== The word Catholic in Greek means according to the whole. The highest authority in matters of faith, morality and Catholics churches are headed by a Bishop. The Bishop of Rome is the governance. The Pope is in communion with the Bishop. Jesus founded Catholic and one sixth of the worlds population. Catholics recieve the eucharist at mass weekly which is the body of Jesus Christ, also they can drink a sip of wine which is known as the blood of Jesus. ==== Eastern Orthodox was the Eastern part of the Roman Empire called Byzantium. They mainly used the Greek language. There is no Pope in the Eastern Orthodox Church. For Eastern Orthodox Christians they each have to have a personal experiance of the truth to get closer to God. Mostly allow married men to be preists in church. The scriptures are interpreted by seven ecumenical councils of a certain church. There are about 225 million Eastern Orthodox Christians.

Protestantism was founded in the 16th century by Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, and John Calvin. This religion came into existance from a group of churches that broke off from the Roman Catholic church. The word prodestant means someone who is a witness. Today there is about 590 million prodestants around the world, which makes up about 27 percent of Christians.