why are there so many Orthodox churches, while there's only

All king level orthodox countties gets their own patriarch

The Orthodox are nationalistic and anti Christian

Every Orthodox church has a patriarch who is the head of the nation's church. There's one head patriarch in Istanbul, but that's mostly in name only. He's not like the Pope in Catholicism.

>>2762779
But why did that happen in the East but not in the West? Why didn't local bishops create their own autocephalous churches in Catholicism?

>>2762774
Catholics aren't Christian

>>2762782
Because Catholic means universal, so that would be anti-catholic.

>>2762803
Don't the Orthodox churches claim to be "catholic" in that sense?

>>2762782
Didn't Timurlane destroy church unity in the east?

>>2762618
There are regional Catholic churches that accept papal supremacy and at least nominally accept catholic dogma. But for the most part they govern their own affairs

The west interpreted the concil ruling that the pope was 1st in the church as meaning he was supreme, where as in the east they saw him only as first among equals. The way east and west organized their churches reflects this difference with the west being far more centralized.

>>2762618
Actually there are 23 catholic churches.
The RCC is technically just a sui juris Church among others(one that dwarfs the other 22 and is headed by the protos, though)
>>2762782
actually there were.
Aquileia tried turning into a patriarchy in it's own right.

>>2762897
I know but the Latin Church is far more dominate in the Catholic structure than any of the Orthodox churches

>>2762806
Some of them do. And among those the Istanbul patriarch is "the first among equals".

>>2762782
It used to be that way everywhere but then the Roman patriarch claimed primacy over the entire church, so they split.

>>2762618

Because the Orthodox Church was destroyed by the Muhammadans in the 15 century.

>>2762618
There's only one orthodox doctrine and the affairs are managed more independently unlike the autocratic Catholic church founded by St. Peter 1988 years ago.

>>2762782
It does. It's just that most of the other Churches within the Holy See have far fewer adherents than the Latin Rite.

>>2763028
How did the Latin Rite become so dominant? Why didn't the Greek Rite take the same role in Orthodoxy?

>>2762902
that's a consequence of divergent historical evolution.
There is also one main rite in East and West, due to the 2 Romes making everyone else do it their way.

>>2763031
actually, that happened.
Byzantium didnt administratively dominate the other sees, but they made them use the rite of St. John Chrysostom everywhere.

>>2763072
Do you think that if the HRE didn't exist, the Catholic churches would be more autocephalous like the Orthodox ones?

>>2763083
*Not the HRE but the Carolingian empire

>>2763083
Nah.
The ecumenical synods made clear Rome got direct administration over ALL the West, even without arguments over Petrine Primacy.
They strengthened that by having to centralise more to name bishops regardless of petty warlords and princelings that wanted to get in the way.