And how did other denominations form from that inital denomination and why?
2007-12-20 19:40:38 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Jerusalem Church with St. James (a.k.a. James the Just) as its head. It all spread out from there.
2007-12-20 19:42:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholicism was the first that was established. There was a Schism in 1054 ad. The Roman Rite and the Eastern Rite had a split in 1054 ad. Both rites are almost similar to each other in theology. The big difference between the Eastern rite and the Roman rite is that the Eastern rite does not believe that power should be centralized into one man which is the Pope in Rome. In the 16th century there was the Protestant reformation. Lutherans and Anglicans were born. The Church of England was started by Henry the 8th because he wanted an annulment which was not granted by the Catholic Church. The Lutherans came about because Martin Luther wanted to reform the Church, but ultimately he created a new denomination. Methodists come from Anglicans, however they are not a part of the Anglican communion. Since the Protestant reformation, there has been a lot of splintering in the different protestant denominations. There were Huguenots in France, Zwingliests in, I believe Switzerland, Lutherans in Germany, Presbyterians in Scotland, Anglicans in England and so on.
In the USA, Anglicans got a name change to Episcopalians. Almost all of the Episcopalians are in the Anglican Communion.
In the mid 19th century, there were many revivals in the South-Eastern USA which paved the way for the different Baptists, Pentecostal, and Evangelical Movements.
2007-12-21 03:54:33 · answer #2 · answered by Indy Indy Indy!!!! 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well.. After the coming of Christ, some Jews became Christians.. then the disciples went in different directions : St.Mark to Egypt (Alexandria ) , St. Peter to Rome ( Europe) and so on.. after a while there was a separation that resulted in Catholics and Orthodox. The Orthodox claims that they kept following the same original religion and faith without change, while Catholics ( for the Orthodox ) got off the trail. Later there was plenty of separation in both Catholicism and Orthodox. The Protestant came out of Catholicism and the Orthodox split into different types. You have Copts ( The original Christians of Egypt) the Greek , The Armenians, The Romanians etc...
2007-12-21 03:48:01 · answer #3 · answered by guy_from_there 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Definately NOT Judaism. That is a religion on its own which have different practices and does not believe in Jesus as the son of god or as a messiah. Judaism is what Christianity based most of their religion on. The first christians were Jews of course but then it spread to the poor classes in the Roman empire. It was for a long time just one of many different sects in the empire, until Constantine I converted for political expediency. He frequently interfered in the then churches and forced them to standardise doctrine etc. and become more organised. The Catholic church can be said with reasonable certainty was the first official denomination of christianity.
2007-12-21 04:23:33 · answer #4 · answered by Jingizu 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the first Church was the Orthodox Cathoic Church which begain when Christ called the apostles. All the Apostles were equal with Paul and Peter having a Primacy of Honnor. It is true the Jerusalem Patriarch was started first then Antioch and Alexandria but primacy was bassed on the size of the city.
The rest sprung off due to errors and pride. for example Rome broke from the Church due to their view of the role of the Pope. From simply first amoungst equals to uberbishop. The protestans in reaction to papal coruption and other protestants out of a desire to invint their own teachings.
2007-12-21 04:35:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crikey - Jews are not a subset of chrisianity. Many would be startled by the ignorance shown here in the past few minutes (all the Jews I have known have been highly educated).
I think the Catholic church would have to be first because it was founded by St Peter. Also, the small christian communities who were often persecuted (in the earliest of times) were largely unorganised at a high level.
2007-12-21 03:49:38 · answer #6 · answered by Brett2010 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There was no denomination named yet. But many argue either Catholicism or Greek Orthodox.
2007-12-21 03:44:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Catholicism. They broke away and started their own denomination because they started to question Catholic Doctrine and began to disagree.
2007-12-21 03:49:53 · answer #8 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholicism.
2007-12-21 03:48:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Judaism. Just kidding. Catholicism I think.
2007-12-21 03:43:00 · answer #10 · answered by eatmynipple 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋