They created the Eastern Orthodox religion, they preserved almost all of the Greek artifacts we have currently, and Justinian's Corpus iuris civilis became the foundation of nearly all European law and legal practice. The Eastern Orthodox Church's members number over 250 million worldwide, many of which are in the United States. There have been many efforts to establish a single American Orthodox church, but no union has been created. In 1950, several Eastern Orthodox denominations joined with Protestant groups in the formation of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in...

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Since the permanent dividing of the Roman Empire in 395 ad, eastern rulers viewed themselves as the emperors of Rome. ... During the years of the Byzantine Empire, differences occurred between the eastern and western parts of the church. ... Well in 730 Emperor Leo 3rd banned the use of religious images used by eastern Christians. ... Therefore they split and had the Roman Catholic Church in the west, while the Orthodox Church was in the east. ... Slavs were people on the Black Sea that were converted by the Orthodox Christians....

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The Byzantine Empire, the Greek eastern section of the old Roman Empire, survived the disintegration of the Latin West by approximately a thousand years. ... Instead, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and sacked the Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. ... The city itself remained prosperous as the Muslim capital in the Ottoman period, but the Christian Eastern Orthodoxy period ended at this time. ... The Hagias Sophia served as the Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. This church once served as the Or...

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The Byzantine empire, once known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was heavily influenced by the Roman culture. ... The basilica opened in February of 360 AD and practiced Eastern Orthodox Christianity; it served as the primary place of worship in Constantinople. ...

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