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Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church (encompassing national Orthodox jurisdictions such as Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, etc.—see Eastern Orthodox Church organization) is a body of Christians which claims origins extending directly back to Jesus and his Apostles through unbroken Apostolic Succession. Its doctrines were formalized through a series of church councils, the most authoritative being the Seven Ecumenical Councils held between the 4th and 8th centuries. These councils were convened out of the necessity to resolve conflicts that ...

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Eastern Orthodox Church - Beliefs

Eastern Orthodox Church - Art and Architecture

Eastern Orthodox Church - Traditions

Eastern Orthodox Church - History

Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia II - Eastern Orthodox Church - Traditions Eastern Orthodox Church - Chanting. Orthodox services are sung nearly in their entirety. Services consist in part of a dialog between the clergy and the people (often represented by the choir or the Psaltis (Cantor). In each case the text is sung or chanted following a prescribed musical form. Almost nothing is read in a normal speaking voice with the exception of the homily if one is given. The church has developed eight Modes or Tones, (see Octoechos) within which a chant may be set, depending on the time of ye ...

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Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Autocephaly

In hierarchical Christian churches, especially Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, autocephaly is the status of a hierarchical church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop. When an ecumenical council or a high-ranking bishop, such as a patriarch or other primate, releases an ecclesiastical province from the authority of that bishop while the newly independent church remains in full communion with the hierarchy to which it then ceases to belong, the council or primate is granting autocephaly ...

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Autocephaly - External link

Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - State religion

A state religion (also called an established church or state church) is a religious body or creed officially endorsed by the state. The term state church is associated with Christianity, and is sometimes used to denote a specific national branch of Christianity. Closely related to state churches are what sociologists call ecclesiae, though the two are slightly different. State religions are examples of the official or government-sanctioned establishment of religion, as distinct from theocracy. State ...

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State religion - Types of state churches

State religion - Sociology of state churches

Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Liturgical year

History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catho ...

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Liturgical year - Western Christianity

Liturgical year - The twelve Great Feasts

Liturgical year - Resources

Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Patriarch

Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy. This is a Greek word, a composition of "πάτερ" (pater) meaning father and "άρχων" (archon) meaning leader, chief, ruler, king, etc. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are referred to as the three patriarchs of Judaism, and the period in which they lived is called the Patriarchal Age. The word has also taken on other meanin ...

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Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Binitarianism

Binitarianism is a theology of two in one God, as opposed to one (unitarianism) or three (trinitarianism). Classically, it is understood as strict monotheism — that is, that God is an absolutely single being; and yet there is a "twoness" in God. At times, this monotheism drifted toward a "twoness" of God: that is, two Beings in one "God family" that is in agreement with itself, composed of the Father and the Son. These two strains of a theology of two, and one God developed alongside one ano ...

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Binitarianism - Binitarianism Throughout History

Binitarianism - Conclusion

Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Excommunication

Excommunication is a religious censure which is used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means "out of communion," or, "once was in communion, but now is not". (Sections in alphabetical order.) ( Excommunications(List) ) Excommunication - Christianity. Excommunication - Anathema. The biblical form of excommunication is to declare one anathema. The difference between an anathema and excommunication is that generally excommunication ...

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Excommunication - Christianity

Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Council of Basel

The Council of Basel was a council of bishops and other ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church that was held at Basel, Switzerland, away from territories of the Papacy, the Holy Roman Emperor or the kings of Aragon or France, whose influences the council hoped to avoid. The council was convened at a period when the Conciliar movement was strong and the authority of the papacy weak. In the pressure for reform within the Church, a decree of the Council of Constance (9 October 1417), sanctioned by Pope Martin V, obliged ...

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Council of Basel - Union with the Eastern Orthodox Church

Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Good Friday

Good Friday is a holy day celebrated by Christians on the Friday before Easter or Pascha. It commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus at Calvary. Special prayer services are often held on this day with readings from the Gospel accounts of the events leading up to the crucifixion. Mainstream Christian churches view Christ's crucifixion as a voluntary and vicarious act, and one by which, along with his resurrec ...

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Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Original sin

This article is about sinfulness. For the movie, see Original Sin (movie) Original sin is usually understood of the condition of sinfulness (lack of holiness) in which human beings, according to Christian tradition, are born. The term is also applied, with the definite article ("the original sin"), to mankind's first sin, to which evil effects for the whole human race are attributed. Christ ...

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Original sin - The original sin the Fall

Original sin - Original sin Christian doctrine

Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Archbishops of Ohrid

List of Orthodox Archbishops of Ochrid, Macedonia, part of the Serb Orthodox Church: Category: Eastern Orthodoxy ...

Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia - Greek Orthodox Church

Greek Orthodox Church can refer to any of several hierarchical churches within the larger group of mutually recognizing Eastern Orthodox churches: Orthodox Church of Constantinople, headed by the Patriarch of Constantinople, who is also the "first among equals" of the Eastern Orthodox Communion Church of Greece, which has been autocephalous since 1833 any Eastern Orthodox church that uses a Greek liturgy, including the Orthodox Churches of: Orthodox Church of Alexandria Antiochian Orthodox Church Orthodox Church of Jer

Eastern Orthodox Church: Encyclopedia II - Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Eastern Orthodox Church jurisdictions

Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Autocephalous churches. Orthodox Church of Constantinople Orthodox Church of Alexandria Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox Church of Jerusalem Russian Orthodox Church Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church Serbian Orthodox Church Romanian Orthodox Church Bulgarian Orthodox Church Orthodox Church of Cyprus Church of Greece Polish Orthodox Church Albanian Orthodox Church Czech and Slovak Ortho ...

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