When the other main churches in the Middle East and North Africa were overrun by the Muslims after they surged out of Arabia in AD 632, then the Roman church became the leader of the western church in competition with the Greek Orthodox Church of Constantinople.
Ha dikereke tse ding tse kgolo mane Botjhabela Bomahareng Leboya la Afrika dine dile pusong ya Muslims kamorao ho hotswa ho Arabia ka 632 AD, yaba kereke ya Roman eba le moetapele hotswa bophirima ya nang matla a tlhodisano ekgolo mmoho le kereke ya Greek Orthodox ya Constantinople.