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Which is older: the Orthodox Church or the Catholic Church?

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The Church of the first Bible was called the One catholic and Orthodox Church. It is the common ancestor to Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches today. It also allows both groups to cllaim to be the older - as the One True Church and Inheritor of the Word. The short answer is: “neither” - the question poses a false dichotemy. read more

The early Church was called BOTH "Orthodox" and "Catholic." St. Ignatius of Antioch, a disciple of the Apostles, calls the Church by both these names as early as A.D. 107. read more

The Roman Catholic Church is pretty much older than the Eastern Orthodox Church because the Orthodox Church is just the result of the schism that occured on 1054. The reason of the schism is the rejection of the Eastern bishops in the doctrine of the "filioque clause" which was added by the Church to make the doctrine of the Trinity clear in the Nicene Creed. read more

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