Christian traditions are related, but not by one clean genealogy. This map shows broad historical lines while preserving councils, politics, migration, reunion, overlapping identities, and the ways living churches understand their own continuity.
37 historical nodes5 family lensesLinked to full profiles
Interactive lineage map
Follow families without pretending history is a straight line
Selected lineage
Ancient communions
Interconnected local churches before later patriarchal, conciliar, and denominational boundaries.
Eastern churches
Western catholic
Reformation families
Renewal and global movements
Lines show broad historical relationships, not claims that one modern church simply “became” another. Communities overlap, reunite, divide internally, exchange practices, and describe their own continuity in different theological terms.
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