Is Pope considered the leader of all Christian communities??

Oh so its for Catholic..But i have seen different divisions in Catholics like Roman,Latin... so is Pope the leader of all the various denomination as said above. If so what is the differnce between this different groups.

oh yes... but the media portrait Pope as the religious leader of all Christians isnt it??

The media doesn't really portray things very accurately. But, the Catholic religion, I believe, is the largest of all Christian faiths. So, he represents a lot of people. Mostly, he is considered the head of all the dioceses, parishes, etc. His is the last word when it comes to Catholic church policy and practices.

It's a lot like a political group and he's the president, or king.

Ok i understood what you said...being the largest community in christianity he has a good voice or power since most of the people are behind him.

The Pope (from Latin: papa, Papa, father; from Greek: pappas/ p?ppa?, father)[1] is the Bishop of Rome and the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church. He is believed by Catholics to fulfill this role as the Successor of Saint Peter, making him Vicar of Christ.

The office of the Pope is called the Papacy; his ecclesiastical jurisdiction is called the Holy See (Sancta Sedes in Latin) or Apostolic See (this latter, on the basis that both St. Peter and St. Paul were martyred at Rome). Early bishops occupying the See of Rome were designated Vicar of Peter; for later Popes the more authoritative Vicar of Christ was substituted; this designation was first used by the Roman Synod of 495 to refer to Pope Gelasius I, an advocate of papal supremacy among the patriarchs. Marcellinus (d. 304) is the first Bishop of Rome whom sources show used the title of Pope. The current Pope is Benedict XVI.

In addition to his service in this spiritual role, the Pope is also Head of State of the independent sovereign State of the Vatican City, a city-state and nation entirely enclaved by the city of Rome. Before 1870 the Pope's temporal authority extended over a large area of central Italy: the territory of the Papal States. The Papacy retained sovereign authority over the Papal States until the Italian unification of 1870; a final political settlement with the Italian government was not reached until the Lateran Treaty of 1929.

Oh is there some community that beleive catholics as devils.. I am hearing this for first time..can you send more information on it.

I have heard that, too. But, there are people in every faith that will say the same thing about people in other faiths.

Yes thats true..nowadays people do not know their religion or community and also is blaming others.

ohh thats great to know that you are Orthodox. where is its head quaters? coz i have heard that there are different factions of Orthodox christians.. isnt it?

There are many orthodox churches and the head of each church is in his country. We have no one pope. Pope Shenouda is in Alexandria Church

Whilst what 0122777528 says is true, there are many Orthodox churches they remain in communion with each other and in that sense are one. Indeed the Bishop of Rome was originally part of the Orthodox Church till, in a fit of hubris, in the 11th Century the then Bishop of Rome declared himself Pope and so the Roman Catholic Church was formed.

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Definitely... But, I m not sure whether Catholics are the largest group among Christians?

So does that mean Latin catholics wont consider him as a leader.

I agree, He is not the head of Christianity. He is head of Roman Catholic Church. Pope means like the top dog. There used to be 5 Popes, in the early church. There was one in Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antioch,?, and rome... Rome was the only one in the west, then there was a pope ( i forget which one) a pope in rome,and he declared himself ponificus maximus, (head head top dog), and the other pope's were like NO WAY!, and Roman Pope was like YES WAY, and they excommunicated eachother.
Then you have many hundreds of years, much ugliness, then the reformation, then a few more hundred years, (lots happens) and now you have the mess we are in now.
I am a Christian, I just do the book, the 66 books of the Bible.
The pope does not represent me as a Christian.

Hey Keepingithome, I love your way of describing the hubris of the Pope

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Oh is Catholics the first followers of Jesus??

No, the Catholic Church was not the original Church, dating only to the 11th Century when it split from the Orthodox Church. Even the Orthodox Church may not be the original Church.

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so which one will be the first??

yes that was the most response about that.