30,000 of them are Protestant denominations, I read. Amazing, isn't it, the diversity of faiths that God implanted.
From Google:
The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous, self-governing particular churches in full communion with the Pope. Together with the Latin Church, they make up the Catholic Church as a whole. They preserve many centuries-old Eastern liturgical, devotional, and theological traditions, shared in most cases with the various other Eastern Christian churches with which they were once associated, such as the Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodox Church.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also referred to as the Orthodox Church and Orthodoxy, identifies itself as the present-day continuation of the theology and episcopacy established by Jesus Christ through his Apostles. The Orthodox Church is the second largest Christian church in the world, with an estimated 225–300 million adherents,primarily in Eastern Europe (especially Greece and Southeastern Europe), throughout the Middle East and across Russia.
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I'm starting to get cross eyed. Time to shut down and think of beddy-bye.
It's 8:38 P.M., still light and some poor bird is singing outside, TOTALLY confused, NOT knowing that s/he should be in beddy-bye by now.
“Within Christianity, he counts 33,820 denominations.
30,000 of them are Protestant denominations, I read. Amazing, isn’t it, the diversity of faiths that God implanted.”
A house divided against itself will fall. Profound words?