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by Anonymous on November 18th, 2003

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Are all Christian denominations considered to have branched off from Catholicism?

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  • by lilly42 on September 15th, 2005

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    Although there may have been some obscure churches before the Great Schisim in 1054, the Catholic Church was originally ment to be the "universal" church. Note: Cahtolic means universal. However, due to the Great Schism it was split into the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

    Then in the 1500's the Protestant reformation started. There eventually ended up being no less-keep in mind there are quite possibly much more world-wide- Protestant "sub denominations". The Protestant reformation was ment to reform the Catholic Church thus, Protestant denominations were derived from the Catholic Church.

    However, later came Moromonism which was started by Joseph Smith around 1823. Then there are the non-denominational group, which does not consider themselves either Mormons, Catholics, Protestants, or any of the above. So in short, no not every single denomination branched off from Catholicism.

    Here are my sources (both books): Relgions of the world by Ronald J. Wilkins and the Book of Mormon-(Introduction)


    Edit: If a sub denomination comes from a denomination that was derived from Catholiscim then it was indirectly derived from Catholicism.

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    • Good answer.

      Alatea

      by Alatea on November 14th, 2005

    • partailly true since most of the current n-C church are offshoots of EACH OTHER.

      Ignatius

      by Ignatius on March 12th, 2006

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