What came first? The Roman Catholic Church, the Coptic Church, the Greek Orthodox Church, or Lutheran Church?

Question

I'm only leaving it to the ones I listed, thanks!

Answer 1

The Orthodox Church was founded on the first Pentecost. The Copts are a schism away from the Orthodox. The Roman Catholics are a schism away from the Orthodox. The Lutherans are a schism away from the Roman Catholics.

The Orthodox were and are the first.

Answer 2

The Roman catholic Greek, Antiochian, Syriac and Coptic Orhtodox Churches can all trace their history to the Aposltes. the patriarchates of the anchient world are Rome Constantinople Alexandria Antioch and Jerusalem they were considered equal in athority and did things via council. Each patriarchate had their own liturgy and synod which is the reason yu will see ____ Orhtodox church. While the Greeks and Russian for example are the same in doctirne the Russian Church in Russia uses a form of Slavonic and has the athority to up date the translation to make the liturgy easier to understand.
Slavonic is a mix of old and modern Slavic languages which was ment to be uderstandable by differing slavs despite language/dielect as all Slavic languages are closly related. The Russian last did this in the 17h century
the Serbs in the 19th or 20th centires I beleive.
while the Greeks in Greece use Greek and the Orthodox churches in the US use a mix of English and the tradtional languages the ratio depends on the Churches needs. . the OCA which is the Orhtodox Church in America is a spin off of the Russian Church and uses English Slavonic and other languages- some times in the same service. The Church I went to in Oregon uses nothing but English while the one in Alaska used English and Russian and the one in Nevada uses English with a couple prayers and a few Lord have Mercies repeated in Slavonic Greek and Romanian
The Coptic Orhtodox became schimatic in the 4th-5th Century the Antiochian/Syriac church devided the same time over issues with the council of Chalcedon. The Roman Cathlics schismied in 1054 over issues such as the role of the Pope. The Lutherans began in about 1520 becuse Luther was protesting teachings of the Roman Church. Today the Oreitnal Orthodox (Armenian Coptic Syriac Etheopian and Indian) and the Eastern Orthodox (Greek Russian Romanian Serbian Antiochian Bugarian and the OCA) are closer to each other than either of us are to Rome or the Lutherans in terms of doctirne faith and practice.

Answer 3

The Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church are technically of the same tradition and grew apart over centuries, with the split being set in stone in 1054. One cannot be described as preceding the other; both have existed since the first century, and they both precede the Coptic and Lutheran churches.

The Coptic Church split away from the Catholic/Orthodox tradition at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 when they took a differing view on the nature of Christ.

The Lutheran Church is one of several bodies that were forced out of the Catholic Church at the Council of Trent in 1563.

Answer 4

The church which is now known as the Roman Catholic Church was the first church, founded by Jesus in Matthew 16:18. Peter was the first pope and all popes have succeeded from him in an unbroken line of leadership over the Church for the last 2000 years. The RCC is the earth's oldest institution. Today's RCC bishops are successors of the Apostles.

Although the Church was referred to as "catholic" as early as 110 AD and Peter and Paul were martyred in Rome (the Vatican is built over their tombs), the Church did not become known as the Roman Catholic Church until some years later. Nevertheless, it is the same Church, observing the same liturgies, following the same priesthood and authority, believing the same doctrines as the very first Christians.

The United States of America was not declared independent until 1776 and constituted until a few years later, yet were the Pilgrims of 1620 not Americans? Just because the institution was not named until a hundred years later does not mean it is not the same organization.

Blessings!

Answer 5

The split between the Western Europe Christianity and Eastern Europe Christianity was ongoing process that started already in the 4th century. Christianity never was unified faith, but it had large numbers of branches that competed for human soul. Eastern Church with backing of the Emperors of Byzantine empire were the dominant force in the East and pushed others like Nestorians and Arians out of their territory. The western Europe was outside of the influence of the Patriarch of Constantinople and did not obey him and his emperor, developed own theology, beliefs, and interpretation of Scripts. The beliefs varied from acceptance of Trinity or the origin of sin, and were source of ill between these two churches. While the West was rather disorganized, only Roman Church that developed on the doctrines of St. Augustine and other, was able to maintain some political, educational, and cultural integrity. These beliefs especially from St.Augustine became widely accepted in the West, and rejected in the East. Both parties since dissolution of the Roman Empire were accusing each other with heresy. When Frankish Empire emerged as the leading nation and protector of the Rome, the Byzantine theologists and philosophers withdrew from influencing western thoughts all together. This fueled distrusts and dislike, and each of the churches were persuaded about only one truth, their own. One things the Orthodox church failed to see was the rise of the West that was willing fight for its own version of the Christianity on the battlefield, while Eastern Church was at the same time facing invasion of Muslims from the East. The West also had significant card and that was a supremacy of Roman bishop, the Pope, over the rest of the christian churches. However, the Constantinople was least willing to submit is authority or belief to the Pope. So through the 10th and 11th century, the split between Pope in Rome and the West and Patriarch of Constantinople grew until mutual excommunication and labeling each other faith as heresy.

Answer 6

At first it was just "the" Church which practiced the genuine Christian doctrines prescribed by the disciples. The message was "Catholic" (Universal) in the sense that it excluded NO ONE and included EVERYONE (Pagan, Jew, etc) . Heretical sects were founded mostly by Gnostics, who changed doctrine to suit their gnostic philosophies.

It wasn't until 1054 when the Church split into East (Greek Orthodox) and West (Roman Catholic). In a sense, you could say East and West were created simultaneously when they mutually decided that they were more qualified to preserve and maintain the true Christian faith.

One curious fact. In that same year, a massive supernova ("new star') appeared, which created a star which was visible in broad daylight for 2 weeks to the Chinese, but was not recorded by either the Greeks nor the Romans.

Answer 7

1. Roman Catholic (although its really up to interpretation as to when this was actually founded as a "catholic" church. It was just all Christianity back then- but lets just assume it was around 300 AD as this most closely relates to the 1st council of Nicaea which laid down Christian canonic doctrine)

2. Coptic (this was the oldest breakout group. around AD 400)

3. Greek Orthodox

4. Lutheran (definitely the last. This was in the 1500s)

Answer 8

Ignatius of Antioch coined the name "Catholic" for the early Christian Church in the year 110 AD.

So Catholics, Coptics, Greeks, and Lutherans.

Answer 9

The Roman Catholic Church came first, founded by Saints Peter and Paul. Then, as the Romans continued to conquer, and embrace Christ, they made changes to their own religions, and those of the people in the lands they conquered, to form an "easy transition" from what they had done, to what they were "suggested" to change to. You will find that there are many similarities between pagan religion and Christianity, Judaism and Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Answer 10

Coptic Orthodox, then Greek Orthodox, then Coptic Orthodox (Monophysite), then Roman Catholic, then Coptic Catholic, then Lutheran.