Why are there so many Orthodox churches, while there's only one major Catholic church?

why are there so many Orthodox churches, while there's only one major Catholic church?

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All king level orthodox countties gets their own patriarch

The Orthodox are nationalistic and anti Christian

Every Orthodox church has a patriarch who is the head of the nation's church. There's one head patriarch in Istanbul, but that's mostly in name only. He's not like the Pope in Catholicism.

But why did that happen in the East but not in the West? Why didn't local bishops create their own autocephalous churches in Catholicism?

Catholics aren't Christian

Because Catholic means universal, so that would be anti-catholic.

Don't the Orthodox churches claim to be "catholic" in that sense?

Didn't Timurlane destroy church unity in the east?

There are regional Catholic churches that accept papal supremacy and at least nominally accept catholic dogma. But for the most part they govern their own affairs

The west interpreted the concil ruling that the pope was 1st in the church as meaning he was supreme, where as in the east they saw him only as first among equals. The way east and west organized their churches reflects this difference with the west being far more centralized.

Actually there are 23 catholic churches.
The RCC is technically just a sui juris Church among others(one that dwarfs the other 22 and is headed by the protos, though)
actually there were.
Aquileia tried turning into a patriarchy in it's own right.

I know but the Latin Church is far more dominate in the Catholic structure than any of the Orthodox churches

Some of them do. And among those the Istanbul patriarch is "the first among equals".

It used to be that way everywhere but then the Roman patriarch claimed primacy over the entire church, so they split.

Because the Orthodox Church was destroyed by the Muhammadans in the 15 century.

There's only one orthodox doctrine and the affairs are managed more independently unlike the autocratic Catholic church founded by St. Peter 1988 years ago.

It does. It's just that most of the other Churches within the Holy See have far fewer adherents than the Latin Rite.

How did the Latin Rite become so dominant? Why didn't the Greek Rite take the same role in Orthodoxy?

that's a consequence of divergent historical evolution.
There is also one main rite in East and West, due to the 2 Romes making everyone else do it their way.

actually, that happened.
Byzantium didnt administratively dominate the other sees, but they made them use the rite of St. John Chrysostom everywhere.

Do you think that if the HRE didn't exist, the Catholic churches would be more autocephalous like the Orthodox ones?

*Not the HRE but the Carolingian empire

Nah.
The ecumenical synods made clear Rome got direct administration over ALL the West, even without arguments over Petrine Primacy.
They strengthened that by having to centralise more to name bishops regardless of petty warlords and princelings that wanted to get in the way.