Well, first of all, I haven't mentioned Catholic a lot. What I mentioned was catholic means universal because one holy Catholic and apostolic churche is in the Nicene creed. That's the only reason why I brought up Catholic. And I'm clarifying that it's not referring to Roman Catholic. It was shortly after the nicene creed was established, that emperor Constantine came on to the scene. He's the one that ended the war on Christians and established the first Christian institution in Rome, which is now known as the Vatican. Before that, there was no institution, so let me give you a brief history. The institution hijacked the title Catholic and applied it to themselves, mainly because the majority of the people who were following the faith embraced the institution. Because they had the wealth, they have the resources, they had the education, and they also were doing a lot of good in the world. Such as coming against Gnostics, Islam, and Jewdeizers. So let me give you a brief history of the different groups that are involved with this catholic faith. They were first known as Proto Orthodox. We then get east and west, you have coptics, Assyrian church of the east, Armenian, Syraic, Ethiopian Tewahedo. These were all considered as one catholic faith. They split and divided which is what institutions do, due to beliefs on Trinity, and a different dogma's, and saints such as st. Gregory Palamas vs. St Thomas Aquinas. They essentially had to break away from the institution and become independent. Most of the groups now are part of the Asian orthodox, Eastern orthodox, Roman catholic, and eastern catholic such as Bysintine catholic. You now have even more splits do to traditionalists and devout worship not being supported by roam.
