Table Comparing the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church - CL HW

	Eastern Orthodox Church	Roman Catholic Church
Also known as	Orthodox Catholic Church ; Orthodox Church	Western Church
Traced back	Byzantine or Roman empire
Church established by	St. Paul and the Apostles	Jesus Christ
Spiritual & temporal seat	Constantinople	Vatican in Rome
government	independent, with no central hierarchy	united under the Pope
Beliefs based on	-canons of the first seven ecumenical councils - canons of several local or provincial councils, whose authority was recognized by the whole church - Apostolic Canons - canons of the Fathers" or selected extracts from prominent church leaders having canonical importance.	- Holy Bible - Sacred Tradition interpreted by the Church's teaching authority and detailed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
head of the Church	Jesus Christ	Pope (successor of St. Peter )
practices	take communion with both bread and wine	take only bread.
	use leavened bread in communion	use unleavened bread
	fast on saturdays during Lent	fast during the entire period of Lent