Why did western christianity split from eastern orthodox christianity?
I think part of it was political in that the Roman Empire fell but the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) what would later become the Byzantine Empire, continued, and so they were separated for political reasons. The Western Empire came down with the dark ages and then the Eastern Empire flourished, but then would eventually fall with the rise of Islam, since all of the Middle East, Egypt what is now Libya and Turkey, which were formerly part of the Eastern Empire, became Islamic. So then, the Western Church became the major Christian center, and only Russia and Greece and the Northeastern European areas remained of the Orthodox tradition. With the political separation, one based in Rome and the other in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) came slight disagreements in doctrines. They’re actually not that distinct of religions. They only disagree in like the infallibility of the pope, and some of the ideologies about Mary, and then they have a different mass configuration, though
