This is Blogacus!: Nation of Churches

We have had many discussions in the last couple of weeks about the initiation of Christianity to the Roman state and the influence from Constantine the Great. The Roman state adopted Christianity as the states major religion during the 4th century AD. The Emperor Constantine was convinced that the Christian god had promoted him in his rise to power and was determined to ensure on-going divine protection for his empire. To ensure that the interest of Church and State were closely related, a major symbolic relationship defined the Byzantine Empire.

The Orthodox church emerged receiving numerous legal and financial dispensations which made it a key player in the Byzantine Empire. The Church was then able to regard Constantine as God's chosen representative on earth who guide his people according to the divine will instead of being regarded as a God himself. As the Byzantines debated the nature of Christ, the Council of Nicaea and Ecumenical Church Councils were created to convene any matters of religious controversy.

The Church of Byzantium played a major role in the development in religious traditions that then spread throughout the Middle East. Below is a list of fourteen Churchs that followed the Byzantine Liturgy with their own variations and history.
1. Albanian Church 8. Italo-Albanian Church
2. Bulgarian Church 9. Melkite Church
3. Byelorussian Church 10.Romanian Church
4. Croatian Church 11. Russian Church
5. Georgian Church 12. Ruthenian Church
6. Greek Church 13. Slovakian Church
7. Hungarian Church 14. Ukrainian Church

These Churches created a trend and domino effect that has given us such a diversity of Religions across the world.