20th-century history of the Catholic Church in the United States greater frequency. 20th-century history of the Catholic Church in the United States The 20th-century history of the Catholic Church in the United States was characterized by a period of continuous growth for the Church in the United States, with Catholics progressively evolving from a small minority to a large minority. In 1900 the Catholic population was 10 million, under the control of 14 Archbishops, 77 bishops, and 12,000 priests . The community had built 10,000 churches, of which two-thirds had resident pastors. Catholic schools educated nearly 1,000,000 children and youth. Catholics were heavily concentrated in the industrial and mining centers
Christianity in the 5th century the western provinces but were generally tolerant of those who chose to remain loyal to the imperial church. The Council of Ephesus in 431 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451 led to the schism with Church of the East and the schism with the Miaphysite churches. The latter schism established what is today known as Oriental Orthodoxy. In November 448, a synod at Constantinople condemned Eutyches for unorthodoxy. An archimandrite of a large Constinapolitan monastery, Eutyches taught that Christ was not consubstantial with humanity. Theodosius II called a council to settle the Nestorian controversy. Eutyches was exonerated and returned