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Show Church Divided Into Orthodox and Catholic Many a word In Its origin is a screen concealing an Interesting shelf of history. "Orthodox," from Greek words meaning true opinion. Is an example. ex-ample. The first occasion of Its use Beems to have been by Clement of Alexandria Al-exandria In the Second century. It was used to describe the whole church In very ancient times, but after the great division, when the church became divided between Greek and Roman, the former church seems to have appreciated the word "orthodox" "orth-odox" as describing Itself and the latter lat-ter the word "catholic." The division of the church Into Roman Catholic and Greeek Orthodox was one of the results re-sults of the division of the Roman empire, em-pire, which, for a time, had two capitals, cap-itals, Constantinople and Rome. But "orthodox" was early and generally used as a kind of official description of the eastern church. The division came nround A. D. 313. Detroit News. |