Church of Constantinople
The Church of Constantinople or Byzantine Église was one of the first Christian Churches and one of the components of the Pentarchie. According to the tradition, it would have been rested by the apostle André.
Following displacement in 330 of the capital of the Roman Empire of Rome to Byzance, renamed Constantinople or new Rome, the bishop of the city obtained the préémimence of honor after that of Rome.
After the Schism of 1054 (Great Schism of the East), which marked the rupture with the Église of Rome, it will occupy a dominating place among the orthodoxe Églises.
The orthodoxe Église of Constantinople current is in the direct heiress.
For the period of the Crusades, Rome organized transitory a Latin Église of Constantinople. The Croisades changed the life of many orthodoxe. The Moslems went to north to continue the war. When they travelled towards north, much of orthodoxe Christians left the Middle East and they went to live in Greece.
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