Almost everything about catholic faith revolves around events that (allegedly) happened in the Middle East. Most of the holiest sites seem to be there in relation to the bible’s depiction of events. So wouldn’t it make sense that the pope/vatican would place its power center as near as possible from the holiest sites? How did it come to be Rome? Was this a decision based on the current political climate at the time or was there a reason based on faith/rethoric of the church?
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Because the Catholic church was based in the holy see in Rome. The other early Christian power centers were in Constantinople, Alexandria and Antioch (modern Turkey, Egypt and Syria). So as you can see they were mainly in the middle east while Rome was the westernmost one.
They split into different churches due to politics, isolation due to the empire splitting up, and disagreement on how to interpret the Christian sources and the nature of Christ and the trinity.
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