It’s worse. I didn’t know this but in reading, after the Roman patriachate split off after the Great Schism, Antioch and Alexandria continued to do so into many others.
Anway, my main objective in all that ad naseum was to make the point that Roman Catholics that they have their own history of heading off in their own direction, just like the Protestants. Not saying it’s good or bad, just saying that it is.
***.. that Roman Catholics that they have their own history of heading off in their own direction***
Back about thrty eight years ago I read an interesting newspaper article by an Orthodox priest. He claimed that in the Great Schism, the Catholics left the “true church”.
His words, not mine.