Eastern Church

However, there are some differences between this western version and eastern Byzantine large churches.

The eastern church used Greek instead of the western Latin.

This then is not the capitulation of the eastern churches to Roman authority.

Thus despite the wishes of the pope the eastern churches ignored his protests.

It appealed to several eastern Christian churches for help.

The first layer of frescoes, which originally covered the entire eastern church, dates from the 11th-12th-century.

Control swung back and forth between the western and eastern churches throughout this period.

The eastern church has a lectern on small marble pillars, the remnants of which can be seen at the site.

However despite his energetic protests the canon remained adhered to by the eastern churches.

The schism between the eastern and western churches was worked out and ended by the eighth century.