The Catholic Church, in communion with the Bishop of Rome, is the largest Christian body in the world, ordered through dioceses and parishes under its bishops and the Pope.
Organizations in This Tradition
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The Eastern Catholic Churches
twenty-three self-governing churches in communion with Rome that keep the liturgies and disciplines of the Christian East.
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The Holy See
the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome and the central government of the Catholic Church, exercised through the Roman Curia.
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The Latin Church
the largest of the Catholic Church's twenty-four self-governing churches, ordered in dioceses under the Pope.
Religious Art & Images
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Hagia Sophia
Justinian's great church in Constantinople (532–537), whose dome seemed to contemporaries to hang from heaven — and whose mosaics record, in one building, icon, iconoclasm, conquest, museum, and mosque.
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The Good Shepherd of the Catacombs
A young shepherd carrying a lamb across his shoulders, painted and carved across the Roman catacombs: the earliest Christian image of Christ, chosen as a symbol before it was a portrait.
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