Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church are alike in various ways, such as- they both believed in the composition of Bible, in Eucharist, in Marriage, in the Pope and many more.
The common beliefs that both the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church shared were as follows:-
A) They both accept the Old Testament and New Testament of Bible and also the book of Deuterocanonicals in Hebrew.
B) They both believed in the significance of ‘Mystic Supper’ or Eucharist.
C) The Orthodoxy believed in distribution of both bread and wine among their members, whereas, The Catholics gave the bread only.
D) Both believed in Marriage as an unbreakable and mystic union of man and woman.
E) Mary was titled as ‘Theotokos’ or the bearer of God in human form in Orthodox churches and in the Catholics Mary was considered the same under a different title of ‘ Mother of God’.
F) They both believed in the infallibility of the Pope as the Holy Spirit of God to serve the church.
G) Both the churches had Seven sacraments.
H) Orthodox had Saints working as a mediator to the people and Catholics had Saint who were selected based on their miraculous experience.
I) Orthodoxy believed in Sacred scripture as teaching and Catholics believed in both the scriptures and the tradition as the form of teaching.
