From:	Douglas Browne dejaffa@*********.net
Subject:	[OT] Brief history question (was Re: Church in SR)
Date:	Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:34:44 -0400

> ...As time passed, the followers were
> persecuted until Christianity was removed legalized (I forget the
Emporer), and

Constantine. Now St. Constantine, for obvious reasons.

> pretty soon after that the formal Catholic Church (after much wrangling
about
> orthodoxy and icons, setting up the Orthodox Church) came into existance,
and

It's a little more complicated than that, also involving the authority of
the Pope vs. that of Church Councils, but basically, yeah. The final split
between the two chuches was in the 11th century AD.

--Dejaffa