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I just want to point out that "Oriental" comes from the Latin word for "east". Now think about how Christianity has an "Eastern Orthodox Church", an "Oriental Orthodox Church", and a "Church of the East"... and they're all different churches.

My dad was right next to me laughing at how confusing this all is, and I said wait until we get to the Protestants.

I really appreciate the fact that not only do you specifically dedicate time in your videos to addressing critiques from your comments, but you even modify your charts to incorporate those issues or to provide greater clarity. That's a rare level of dedication to your craft and to providing clear accurate information. Thank you, and keep up the great work!

I honestly wish you all the best with making a coherent tree for all the Protestant/Restorationist denominations. It is nothing short of a mess, even from my very narrow viewpoint

I would also mention the Old Believers, who broke off from the Russian Orthodox Church during reforms in the 17th century, and were anathematized. Recently, some of those anathemas were lifted, but they're still mostly independent.

Fun fact: There used to be a third patriarch in Constantinople, after the 4th Crusade the Catholics set up their own Latin Patriarch to replace the Orthodox one, and this position still existed long after they were driven from the city as a "titular see", only being abolished in 1964.

Prayers for my persecuted Orthodox brothers and sisters, and all those around the world. While I’m non-denominational, the persecution of those who “worship in unapproved fashion” is unconscionable. Peace and light be upon all those who walk the path.

“Today most Old Calendarists… are late to appointments, often by several weeks.”

Guys, the Protestant video is going to be WILD. 😄😁 Would have to do a separate video to cover the various Pentecostal churches.

it’d be cool if you added a rough estimate of how many people pertain to each branch

As an Eastern Orthodox christian, I think good thing to point out, would be that some of the Orthodox churches were abolished/revoked by Russia or Russian Empire, for example Georgia was christianized around the 4th century, but it only recently regained autocephaly.

Fun fact: the city of Lviv used to be the seat of three Catholic archdioceses at once: a Roman, a Greek (Ukrainian) and an Armenian one. Also, since we have the Old Calendarists on the chart, maybe we could also have the Old Believers (Old Ritualists) - a splinter group(s) of the Russian Orthodox Church that rejected the reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the early second half of the 17th century and go one to this day? Edit: an amazing video overall, of course!

As a Catholic, who had a jewish mother, i cant tell u how I enjoy hearing a Jewish man explaining the organization of the catholic church. ;) My mother would always say, "why do they make it so hard?"

It amazes me how unbiased you are, excellent video, I’m a Catholic myself so you did an great job explaining the church. Also interesting different between the eastern rite Catholic Church’s , they have married priests

Very interesting. I watched this episode especially since my husband was Greek Orthodox and I am Roman Catholic.

Thank you for discussing the St. Thomas Christians of India in this video. You mention the role of the apostle St. Thomas, in spreading Christianity in India. Armenia has a similar history of the Apostles St. Bartholomew and St. Thaddeus.

Perhaps you could also include the "Old Believers", who broke away from the Russian Orthodox Church after the reforms of Patriarch Nikon (between 1652 and 1667)? Also, thank you for doing all this work and presenting it to us. As a non-religious person, the structure and timeline of christian denominations has always been hard to follow for me, this helps a lot. :)

Accurate information on the Syro Malabar Catholic Church. Also, they have dioceses outside India, like Chicago, Melbourne and the UK. The archbishop or the Cardinal who is based out of Kerala state in India, is the head of the whole Syro Malabar Catholic Church within and outside India.

Ready for Harvest and UsefulCharts making a denomination tree together is match made in heaven

I'm Christian Coptic Orthodox from Egypt ☦️🇪🇬

Just to note , the see of Antioch is still in Syria, but their seat is now in Damascus. Same for the see of alexandria. Their seat is now in cairo

I highly appreciate your decision to choose Ready to Harvest as your fellow in the adventure of Christian denominations! He's one of the most knowledgeable guys about Christian denominations, especially protestant ones, in the entire KZfaq Also he's one of very few religion KZfaqrs who keep being neutral without getting cynical about religion itself. There are many religion analysts who are just modernists happened to get interested in outdated traditions called religions, and in the other side there are many religious KZfaqrs who inevitably has strong biases as for religious matters. Joshua is very rare one who sincerely cares about each Christian denominations and gives you accurate descriptions of them to help you to choose the church best suited for your faith..

Many thanks for the representation of Eastern Catholicism!

I was raised in charismatic churches, particularly Pentecostal. I don’t know what I consider myself now but I’ve taken a deep dive into the history of Christianity in my 20’s and 30’s. I’m fascinated but how much history, traditions, beliefs, and rituals there are in all the Christian denominations. I was cut off from all that since Pentecostalism is bare bones Christianity. Though, I won’t step foot in a charismatic church now. 😅 All the personal beliefs I held throughout my life on god and Jesus and how I always saw them, imagine my surprise that I would be considered a heretic by the very tenets of Christianity. Can’t wait for part 3!

As always, you guys never disappoint in presenting genuine, reliable charts tracing back this time the different branches of Christianity. Definitely going to suggest my students to go and watch this video for an assignment. Keep up the good work guys!

ahh i love how much history you can read from this, really fascinating! i'm not sure if theres enough information for more than a brief mention, but the story of what we think happened to Christianity in Britannia after the Roman Empire withdrew is fascinating (i've been going over it in college now, i'm an archaeological apprentice). It was definitely here before the Empire fell (see the Chi-Rho fresco in Lullington for one) but it kinda had to fend for itself during the Saxon migrations as by the time Iona and Lindisfarne were established, the population was majority pagan again. Since the islands were more or less abandoned by Rome for a long time, when what would become Latin Catholic christianity came back, they encountered this Insular Christianity (or "Celtic" Christianity) which had survived in some corners and Ireland (which Gildas makes a critique of in 560) and spread about to convert the majority of the Saxon Heptarchy by the time Norse invasion ramped up. It was reabsorbed for the most part when people fell back in line with Europe in the early medieval period but it's having a bit of a flavour revival now! great content as always x

The Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem has such a hilariously Italian name. Pizzaballa? Like "Ayy Luigi pass-a me that-a pizzaball-a! I need-a cook-a da pizza!"

I hope the final poster has all 23 Eastern Catholic Churches. It would be nice to see my Church on it, especially since it never broke Communion with either Rome or Constantinople

I think its very fascinating to mention that the power is very much tied to the very chair they sit in, a "Cathedra" which is where you get the term "Cathedral". Such as the St. Peters chair.

24:50 The different churches in Jerusalem (especially in the old city) are constantly arguing about jurisdiction in Jerusalem. Especially in the old city. (And I didn't even mention all the rivalries within the Orthodox church). Those tensions even led to violent conflicts many times and even required police interventions.

One thing I would like to understand better is the various ideas and movements that the Church Fathers were educated in when formulating their positions. Like, the development of the Concept of Logos from Heraclitus to Philo to John. I'd also like to know the difference between the Thomasines and Johannines, like you touched on in a previous video, and other movements

I really love this serie. Though would have liked you to tell a little bit more about the Old Catholic churches, maybe a mention of the Nordic-Catholic Churh. And something little about the complexity of Russian Orthodox churches because of the suppression during the Soviet Union. I recomend these vids to about everyone I know and really looking forward to the next.

0:07 Part 1 Recap • Origins of Christianity • 1st 2 Church Councils ⛪️ 0:42 Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox Churches 2:15 1st: Addressing a few video 1 comments. 3:18 Ebionite Christians, Samaritans, Karaites - Jews who do not accept teachings of early rabbis. Early breakaway group. 5:24 *The Pentarchy* 1. Antioch 2. Rome 3. Alexandria 4. Jerusalem 5. Constantinople 6:17 Oriental Orthodoxy. Coptic Church. Ethiopian Christians. 7:35 Eastern Orthodoxy: Melkites 8:27 _Power Struggle_ Rome: Claims Precedence of Imperial Power Constantinople Holy Roman Empire Schism Byzantine Empire. 10:10 Filioque 10:50 United until 1054 13:28 Orthodox Church in America ☦️🇺🇸 ⛪️ 15:41 2018 Church Merger. 17:55 Latin Roman catholic Church 23:45 The Contemporary Pentarchy 25:17 Vatican I

Truly amazing Matt. this is in depth and phenomenal work. I was raised a protestant so I'm really looking forward to mid march. I've had my hours and days of research on this and got super confused to a point where I got my head heated. blessings and strength to you my man. Thank you for sharing this value.

Love to see Ready to Harvest get some attention. His videos are excellent, extremely information-dense, and definitely unbiased and straightforward, without the proselytizing.

I am Jewish boy that convert to Eastern Orthodox Church. Their idea of God man and creation was just to beautiful

I'm excited for the Protestant family tree which I'm hoping comes next after this video. Great work as always.

Amazing video 👍👍👍 However, I would like to point out that placing the Georgian church as a church originating from the Russian church is an oversimplification since the Georgian Orthodox Church has existed long before the russian one. As a Georgian Christian I would like to add some additional information about the history of Georgian Orthodox Church in order to "unsimplify" the chart. Originally, since the IV century, the Church of Mtskheta (the Georgian church) was under the authority of the church of Antioch. However, due to long distances, Georgian church operated de-facto independently. In the late V century, Georgian church declared itself to be autocephalous (independent from Antioch), however initially Georgian church was not recognized by other churches (the exact date of this declaration is unknown, but traditionally the date was considered to be 484 AD). After the Caucasian campaign of byzantine emperor Heraclius the church of Constantinople claimed authority over the entire Caucasus region, however, in reality the byzantine church only controlled some parts of modern-day western Georgia. This western Georgian church became de-facto independent from the byzantines after Byzantium was engulfed in iconoclasm. The original Georgian church (Church of Mtskheta) continued operating in the eastern and southern areas of modern day Georgia and achieved recognition from the Patriarch of Antioch in X century. In XI century Georgian church was also recognized by the Patriarch of Constantinople as well. After this recognition, Georgian church became fully recognized member of the Orthodox community. Western Georgian church was officially under the authority of Mtskheta as well, but enjoyed a great deal of autonomy. In XV century, following the collapse of the united Georgian kingdom, the western Georgian church declared secession from Mtskheta, however other churches didn't recognize the secession. This western church was originally based in Bichvinta/Pitius and later in Kutaisi. In XVIII century the leader of the western church somewhat reconciled with the Patriarch of Mtskheta and recognized his authority over the west. In 1810 Georgian Orthodox Church was abolished by the church of moscow. The last Georgian Patriarch was detained and sent in exile to Russia, and the last leader of the western church was murdered by russian soldiers. Georgian church was placed under the authority of a russian exarch. The exarch was an appointed church official, who actively participated in an attempted (and luckily unsuccessful) cultural genocide of the Georgian people. Thousands of Georgian icons were stripped of valueables (which were later pocketed by corrupt russian clergymen) and hundreds of painted historic churches were covered in white paint in an attempt to erase historic Georgian frescoes. In 1917 Georgian clergymen ousted the exarch and declared the restoration of autocephaly. Moscow finally recognized the Georgian church in 1943. In 1990 the restoration of the Georgian church was recognized by Constantinople as well. In 1990's as a result of political and socio-economic instability following the collapse of the Soviet Union multiple minor breakaway groups were formed. Largest of these is the so called abkhazian orthodox church, which operates in abkhazia (a region of Georgia which was ethnically cleansed and seized by a separatist rebellion, currently is under Russian military occupation and is run by a Russian puppet regime). Abkhazian church claims to be the spiritual successor of the medieval western Georgian church, however none of the Orthodox churches (not even the Russian church) recognize the legitimacy of the abkhazian church. Russian patriarch uses abkhazian issue as a kind of political tool to influence and threaten (blackmail) the Georgians. This is the exact reason why Georgian church didn't recognize the Ukrainian church and only time will tell what will happen in the future... Anyway, if anyone has come this far, I hope my comment was informative and thanks for reading the whole thing👍

Thanks! This is incredibly informative. It not only covers church history but also a great deal about how societies organized themselves over the past 2,000 years.

These are amazing! I would just like to suggest two changes: 1. Technically speaking, all Catholics (inducing Eastern) are Roman Catholics as they are Catholics in communion with Rome. So you should have kept the Roman Catholic Box on the tree and then added another branch for the Latin Church, *then* go onto the provinces etc. Don’t worry about getting it wrong, most of us Catholics don’t know these details. 2. You got it the wrong way round. The Church of Antioch was first based in Turkey but relocated to Damascus in Syria. Keep up this amazing work. These graphics are so helpful to visual learners.

I was actually watching a Ready to Harvest video when I got this notification.

Huge thanks of doing this. It's already mind-blowingly complex and the protestants are yet to come. Oh dear.

Most people in Poland isn't aware that the Polish Orthodox Church is independent from the Russian Orthodox Church and Orthodox Christians often meet with discrimination and insults from side of Catholic Poles especially since 2022 and the beginning of the war in Ukraine.

*cooks entire box of popcorn in preparation for the 3.5 hour Protestant segment and 11 hour follow-up clarification segment*

24:55 I gotta admit, that last name made me laugh. Also, this is not the first time in my life that I'm thinking about spherical pizzas.

Thank you for including Samaritans!

I have been following both you guys for forever. Nice to see you working together.

So cool that you're partnering with Ready to Harvest! Love both of your content.

Thank you for doing this….what an eye opener!

The amount of research that goes into your videos must be staggering. Thanks for sharing!

Dude, this channel is like gold, simply gold. Thanks for teaching history, all the way, Thanks for another video on the topic.

Thank you so much for Useful Charts. I love all the information. The Christian Denominations Family Tree is very interesting.

Great video! Just wanted to point out that some RC dioceses have multiple cathedrals, such as the two co-cathedrals in the diocese of Houston/Galveston. Also, there's technically a third one in the same diocese but for a different purpose: the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter (headed by another bishop), which is in place to invite Anglican clergy to be received "back" into the RC church.

Thanks for doing this, I've learned more from these two videos than I ever have on church history/timeline.

These are great vids Matt. Can't wait to see the final chart, it's going to be super helpful.

Great video. Glad you teamed up with Ready to Harvest, his videos have been great for understanding lots of Christian denominations.

This is my favorite series the channel has ever done. Thank you for taking the time to go down each branch. I think explaining the history of Christianity in this was is very useful.

I love Ready tor Harvest. Exceptional host

Love Ready to Harvest! Joshua is great!

Wow, this was absolutely fascinating! Thanks for all your work, and thanks for sharing with us!!!

Can’t wait for the next video. Great succinct and clear conent as usual

This is by far the most extensive chart I’ve seen on the denominations of Christianity. Thanks for putting this together, I know it’s hard work that takes a lot of dedication and research.

When I saw that both you and Ready for Harvest released a video on a similar topic, I got so excited. Glad my suspicions were confirmed!

Ready to Harvest is a very underrated channel, I’m glad a large channel like yours is collaborating with him!

Thank you for this series. It's fascinating to see the history of Christianity so clearly depicted :)

I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the amazing job you do with your Useful Charts video on Christian denominations. As someone who has always been interested in religion and spirituality, I found your chart to be incredibly informative and well-researched. It's clear that you put a lot of time and effort into creating this resource, and I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your hard work. Your video has been an invaluable tool for me, and I have shared it with several of my friends who have also found it helpful. It's great to see someone who is so passionate about their subject matter and who is dedicated to making complex information more accessible to the general public. Once again, thank you so much for all that you do. I look forward to seeing more of your work in the future! PETER

Lots of support Matt Your channel is truly amazing Just jumped from Josh's video

The narrator has a nice, soothing voice quality. It’s also slow and intentional, allowing me to focus, great job!

Oh I was waiting! Excited to watch ❤ thank you

Really very impressive work. Only missing, for example, the Orthodox churches, which arose from the Greek Othodox Patriachate of Antioch, e.g. the Georgian Orthodox Church, which should not be forgotten.

This effort that you put forth here seems to be exhausting. Thanks for putting in so much work to entertain us, Matt.

Fantastic educational content you produce, thank you.

Awesome! Been looking forward to this one!

Thanks for clearing up Eastern and Oriental! I can't wait to buy this poster.

Thank you for your making all the divisions clear-or at least as clear as they can be made.

I love this series! Can’t wait for the next video, they are so interesting to watch while crocheting

Awesome of you mention Ready to Harvest! Such a helpful channel.

Matt @UsefulCharts Thank you so much! I've been studying early Greek Texts of the New Testament and this is truly helpful in understanding how, who, and where in regards to the early manuscripts.

Greetings from Belguim, i am from the Syriac orthodox church

This was so interesting and very informative. As a Cradle Catholic, I learned a lot of new information! You do a great job of explaining without showing a bias…that’s so important! Thanks so much. I’m looking forward to more of your videos. I’ve enjoyed videos from Ready for Harvest, too!

Would it be possible to represent the Avignon Papal Schism on this chart somehow? I think it would make sense to include that since other "exinct" sects are included.

Great explanation of Ukrainian churches, I wanted to suggest some changes to chart but text is definitely top notch

Speaking as a professor of technical communication, you do a wonderful job with these infographic videos!

Thank you for all of your hard work in research and laying this all out!

This is my favorite series ever.

Great Video. As a Roman Catholic (Latin Catholic) It all now makes sense.

Very interesting. I've been following your channel for a some time and when new episodes are released, I always look forward to watching them.

this series is excellent. i am enjoying it very much. looking forward to ep 3.

This was fantastic. I can't wait for the Protestant follow ups. Since they're most of the Christians I come across, some relevant knowledge and vocabulary will be greatly helpful 🙏

Can't wait for the next one!

Thanks brother, always enjoyable explanations!

Amazing work!! Cant wait for the other videos!!

Great video,very informative

This has nothing to do with the video, but I can tell by your voice that you are well-versed in what you teach and I am glad to have this content free on KZfaq. I am just starting my journey of theology, and like with everything, questions outnumber the answers. But you're videos are a good aid to my studies so thank you.

I look forward to the next episode.

Very informative n looking forward towards the 3th episode .

This is so fascinating and easy to follow! Looking forward to the other parts, I hope you discuss the catholic ordinariates, they’re one of the only groups in this I have any experience with and it’s pretty interesting.

Been waiting for this video, Matt this main be outside of your subject are but could u do a video on the leaders of some of these denominations?

Very informative! I look forward to the next episode!