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In a narrow technical sense you are right, the original Hagia Sophia was built ~500 years before the East-West Schism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%
by Jun8 9y ago
In a narrow technical sense you are right, the original Hagia Sophia was built ~500 years before the East-West Schism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism) that split the Church.
However, in the usual sense that Catholic is used, calling Hagia Sophia, which was the seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, a Catholic church is ridiculous.
- jessriedel 9y agoBut in the sentence being criticized, "Catholic church" is primarily being used to distinguish from "Muslim mosque". And of course, the official name of the Eastern Orthodox Church is the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church, because both churches consider themselves catholic, as did the unified church that existed before the Schism.