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The Eastern Roman Empire, by edict from the Emperor Constantin the Great, officially declares Christianity as a legally permitted religion in 313.
===='''Chalcedonian Schism''' (5th Century)]====
Primarily due to differing viewpoints of the dogmatic definitions from the Council of Chalcedon in 451, the Oriental Orthodox broke away from the Eastern Orthodox faith.
The Oriental Orthodox faiths are the following:
[[Coptic Orthodox Church]]
[[Armenian Apostolic Church]]
Indian Orthodox Church (Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church)
[[Syriac Orthodox Church ]] or Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East
Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia
Tewahedo Orthodox Church, which consists of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as well as the Eritrean Orthodox Church, both in the African continent.
===='''Schism with the Roman Catholic Faith '''(11th Century)==== History tends to place 1054 as the date of the schism between the [[Roman Catholic Church ]] and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
However, the two churches were developing differences in certain specific beliefs for ages.
===[[Eastern Orthodoxy Doctrine]]===
Much Eastern Orthodox teaching is the same as that as that of other Christian churches, especially Roman CahtolicismCatholicism. However there are a number of significant differences in teaching. The Church teaches that its origins extend directly back to Jesus and his Apostles through unbroken Apostolic Succession. Its doctrines were formalized through a series of church councils in the following centuries. It teaches belief in the Trinity, Justification by faith plus works, Veneration of saints the Mysteries
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