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Article: ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
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For the first 1,000 years after the death of Jesus Christ, all Christians
were members of the same religion--Christianity. There were no separate
sects, or branches, of Christianity as there are today. The word catholic
means ``universal,'' and for those first 1,000 years after the death
of Jesus Christ, all Christians were members of the Catholic Church.
In 1054, however, after a long dispute between Church leaders in Rome
and Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey), the Catholic Church split.
Eastern churches under the leadership of Constantinople would not
accept the bishop of Rome, known as the pope, as head of the entire
Church. The Eastern churches became ...