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Eastern Orthodoxy traces its roots to the time of the Gospels.
====Dawn of the Byzantine Period (4th Century)====
The Roman Empire was split into the western and eastern empires.
The Eastern Roman Empire, by edit from the Emperor Constantin the Great, officially considers Christianity as a legally permitted religion in 313.
Orthodox was established as the State Religion with The First Council of Constantinople in 381.[1]
====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: [12]
* [[Coptic Orthodox Church]]
====Construction of the Hagia Sofia (6th Century)====
The Church of the Holy Wisdom, or Hagia Sophia,[23] was constructed in Constantinople, what is now Istanbul.
The Hagia Sophia was to the Eastern Orthodox faithful as Saint Peter's Cathedral in Rome is to the Roman Catholic faithful.
With the Ottoman Empire's invasion of the Byzantium Empire, the Hagia Sofia was converted into a mosque in 1453.
With the exception of one Divine Liturgy in 1919 during the British, French, Italian, and Greek occupation of Istanbul after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the building has been a mosque or a museum to this day (2023).[34]
====The Ottoman Period====
The Eastern Orthodox survived through adversity. In the process, it created 2000 years of religious heritage.
In 2019, UNESCO inscribed the Byzantine chant in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.[56]
====References====
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Eastern_Orthodox_Church#Byzantine_period [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Oriental_Orthodoxy
[23]https://www.britannica.com/topic/Eastern-Orthodoxy/History
[34]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia
[45]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_music#
[56]https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/byzantine-chant-01508