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All Christian Churches trace their origins to the life of Jesus Christ, and His Death and Resurrection, over two thousand years ago. For adherents of Christianity, these are the central events in the history and salvation of mankind.

Yet over the millennia, Christians have separated themselves from each other, not only by virtue of the political, cultural, and social diversities that distinguish them, but with differences of dogma, doctrine, and religious customs that developed over this long period. Already in the early centuries of the first millennium AD, the Church in the Eastern regions of the Roman Empire had developed characteristics that defines it to this today, in distinction to the Latin tradition that characterized the Empire’s Western regions until the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation in the early sixteenth century. This latter, on-going event, which took centuries rather than decades to complete, destroyed the hegemony of the Roman Catholic Church in Western and Northern Europe and elsewhere in the Christian world. In its wake, Protestant religions, such as Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, and the evangelical Baptist, Methodist, and other free church movements have strongly defined Christianity in the West. Yet in the modern world, they have all retreated before the onslaught of secularism, atheism, and agnosticism.