Meaning of the orthodox church (what is it, concept and definition)

What is the Orthodox Church:

The Orthodox Church or Church of the East or Greek Orthodox Church is one of the branches of congregation of believers of Christianity.

The Orthodox Catholic Church was born from the definitive separation of the Christian Church in the schism of the year 1054. Before the schism, all Christian churches were under the jurisdiction of Rome, which completely separated from Rome in 1054, dividing into:

• the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church Orthodox Catholic Church or Orthodox Church or Eastern Church

The Orthodox Church as its name says is orthodox which means 'straight belief' therefore it maintains the original creed without the alterations that the Roman Catholic Church introduced. Some of them are:

• the Holy Spirit: its origin is only from the father in the original version. Purgatory: The Orthodox Church says souls after death go to 'final judgment' instead of the recently revoked purgatory of the Roman Catholic Church. original sin is a concept of the Roman Catholic Church. The Orthodox Church continue with ancestral sin that refers to the force that induces us to incline towards evil. the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary: the Orthodox Church affirms that the Virgin Mary was born out of intercourse. Only Jesus, son of the Virgin Mary, is born of immaculate conception.

Due to Christian theology, which studies the word of God, the Christian Church began to have discrepancies of interpretation such as the concepts of trinity and the interpretation of the life and death of Jesus among other things, dividing into 3:

• the Orthodox Catholic Church or Eastern Church or Greek Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church whose believers are called Catholics Protestant Church whose followers are called Protestants

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