What are the denominations of the Catholic Church? As far as I know there is Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Catholic, the East-West divide as it concerns Catholicism.
I thought one is either Catholic or Protestant (Protestant meaning any of the two thousand demonations of Protestantism.
And again, the Roman Catholic Church was the first established in the 1st century and all other denominations are break aways from that original Church.
You confuse the original Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church with the later-emergent Roman Catholic Church. The original 1st-century "c"atholic church is not the later "C"atholic church.
The RCC and EOC both claim to be the original. Regardless how it all declined, the RCC whored the church out and some kind of restoration was needed. The RCC is more corrupt now than ever, though many good hearted people are trapped without a true awareness of the RCC world agenda.
I don't agree with many things that have emerged from Protestantism, but ANYTHING beats Papal supremacy, forbidding to marry, doctrines of indulgences, and the myriad of mystical and legalistic practices of the RCC.