What were the characters is of roman catholicism and eastern orthodoxy

 The beginning of the Church was with Jesus and the Apostles. To succeed the work they had began, some people were chosen, the bishops and later 5 Patriarchades, but, with time, some differences came up and the Orthodod Church had their Fathers of the Church. The Catholic Church hasthe Pope as its supreme leader.

utilized the penal colony

the monroe doctrine is the best known u.s. policy toward the western hemisphere. buried in a routine annual message delivered to congress by president james monroe in december 1823, the doctrine warns european nations that the united states would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs.