Branches of Christianity

After Jesus died his followers built a church to pray to him. "Church" means a group of Christians who worship together. The Roman Catholic church is the oldest branch of Western Christianity. There are many branches of Orthodox Christianity. The two largest groups are Russian orthodox and Greek orthodox. Most Orthodox christians  live  in the eastern parts of the world but there are many Orthodox christians living in Western Europe and America. The Protestant churches are the churches or groups in Western christianity that are not Roman Catholic. The word "protestant" comes from the sixteenth century when some people protested about things which they felt were wrong in the Roman Catholic church at the time.