The major difference between the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church and Roman Catholics

The major difference between the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church and Roman Catholics are that priests can ma?

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The Eastern Orthodox faith, whether Greek, Russian, Romanian, or a number of other expressions, is one faith, one Church. Orthodoxy is often characterized as those Christians in communion with the Patriarch of Constantinople, rather than with the Pope of Rome.

The Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church and the Roman Catholic Church were one Church for the first millennium of Christianity, so there are many similarities. Common to both are most of the points of the Nicene Creed (http://www.goarch.org/chapel/liturgical_texts/creed):
* belief in the Holy Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit
* the divinity of Jesus Christ
* the Virgin Birth
* the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ
* the ascension of Christ into heaven
* the future return of Christ and the creation of his everlasting kingdom
* eternal life

Similar also are
* the structure of church governance (a hierarchy of of various ranks and responsibilities of bishops, a priesthood, and a donate)Te * the change of communion bread and wine into the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
* baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
* liturgical worship forms
* the major sacraments (baptism, marriage, ordination, confession, etc.)
* male-only clergy
* only celibates may become bishops

Beliefs have become different in some areas over the years. The chief differences, and those which precipitated the split between Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism, commonly called the Great Schism of 1054:

Orthodoxy believes
* the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father (Nicene Creed and John 15:26)
* the patriarchs of the various churches have no ruling bishop over them all, always having been organized by councils/synods of bishops

Roman Catholicism believes
* the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son (an addition to the Creed)
* the Pope of Rome is the presiding bishop over all Christianity

Additional post-schism Catholic dogmas, required for Catholics to believe, but that have never been Orthodox dogmas:
* purgatory
* infallibility of the Pope
* the immaculate conception of Mary

There are additional differences in practice that aren't quite dogma:
* Married men may become deacons and priests in the Orthodox Church (not "priests can marry")
* Orthodox fasting practices are more severe
* Orthodoxy uses the Greek Septuagint for Old Testament, and the original Greek for New.

More on the Orthodox Faith can be found here:
http://www.goarch.org/ourfaith/introduction
http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/death/stmark_purg.asp
http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/papaldogma.aspx
http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/theotokos.aspx

There is a list first
ecological- all Ohtodox Bishops are equal some do have titles like Patriarch and archbishop and chair synods but they have one vote
theological- we don't believe in purgatory and have a different view of original sin so there is no immaculate conception of marry. The Catholis have ch aged the nicecne creed abit annd like agustine
2. practice- Orthodox fast more friday and wesnday as and advnt and lent we also say Christ is rissen oppsed to Christ died for you
The Orhtodox calendar dose difer- all of us celibrate easter on a difernt date than the west- the west changed it
Not all Orhtodox Chritans use the same calendar. Next we don't do confirmation like Rome- we chrismate after Baptism so first communion is given as a baby. We don't use a confesional booth and we ordain maried men to the preisthood while other are ordained as monks. All Bishops aremonks BTW