what are the differences between catholicism , orthodox churches and anglicans?

Question

why they themselves called catholics? when there is one catholic churc or they is more than catholic church?do they celebrate the mass?

Answer 1

Catholic means universal. There is only one catholic church. It is composed of all christian churches. Except, of course, the heretics. Unfortunately, most christian churches think everyone else is a heretic so catholic has lost its meaning, although it still shows up in the creed.

The proper name for what is normally called the catholic church is the Roman catholic church. It is the branch of christianity which has a pope and which believes in the filioque clause of the Nicene creed - that the holy ghost proceeds from the father and the son.

The orthodox church does not have a pope and does not believe in the filioque clause. This clause was the proximate cause of their split. The orthodox church is divided up into different churches based originally on countries and now based on ethnicity (like the Greek orthodox church).

The Anglicans believe in the filioque clause but not the pope. The split during the reformation along with the rest of the protestant churches. The Anglican church was originally English. It is now divided into country based churches (like the Episcopal church in the US).

All these churches celebrate mass, which is another word for the eucharist, which is another word for communion.

Answer 2

Those are three different denominations.

The Orthodox split from the Catholics in 1054 A.D. The Anglicans split from the Catholics in the reign of Henry VIII of England, in the 1500's.

So both Orthodox and Anglican are "offshoots" of the Catholic Church.

Anglican celebrate the Catholic mass but they made major doctrinal changes to it. They do not believe the Eucharist is the body and blood of Christ.

Orthodox celebrate the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostym, which has always been the tradition of the East. There are also some Catholics that celebrate the Divine Liturgy as well.

Answer 3

The main stream Catholic church is the Roman church that has the Bishop of Rome (the Pope) as its leader. The orthodox churches began to form with the schism in the 11th centry (I think). The only realy difference between them and The Roman church is that they don't see the Bishop of Rome as the head of the church. Other than that they're pretty similiar. The Roman church will even go as far as saying that the Eucharist the Orthodox churches celebrate during their mass is valid. They do not say that for the Anglican church. The Anglican church is considered a protestan church and was formed by Henry the VIII because the Pope would not let him divorce his wife. He was the one that killed several of his wives because he wanted a son and the first few were not able to give him one. Of all the protestant churches their theology is closest to that of the Catholic church. They do not claim to be Catholic though.

Answer 4

the in straightforward words needed distinction between Roman Catholics and Anglicans is that Roman Catholics recognize the Pope because the precise of the Church on the earth, even as Anglicans trust that the Queen of england has that position. intense Anglicans are a twin of Roman Catholics in each understand except of their most suitable authority. different Anglicans are at liberty to trust something they prefer which does indirectly contradict the e book of instantly ahead Prayer.

Answer 5

If you want a full breakdown, just read up on what each church believes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican

Answer 6

Basically they all fight over different chapters of the same book