Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Eccl. Hist. the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the
Byzantine Church .
WordNet 3.0
- n. state church of Greece; an autonomous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Examples
“It is a traditional opinion, lately controverted, that John Damascene composed the "Octoëchos", which contains the liturgical hymns used by the Greek Church in its Sunday services.”
“The Eastern Question originally grew out of a quarrel between France and Russia concerning the possession of certain holy places in Palestine; both the Latin and the Greek Church wanted to control them.”
“Finally, the missionaries sent by the Greek Church among the Slavic people, especially Sts. Cyril and Methodius, created the Slavonic alphabet, from which the writings of all the Slavonic peoples are derived.”
“On the latter date the Greek Church also celebrates as virgin and martyr still another Pelagia of Tarsus.”
“In the Latin Church follow the Rogation Days; in the Greek Church on Tuesday is kept the apodosis or conclusion of the feast of Easter.”
“We have sermons from the Greek Church much earlier than from the Latin.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Jerusalem and in the churches of the Franciscans it is called the feast of the Holy Sepulchre of Christ; in the Greek Church it is called ion myrophoron (Sunday of the women who brought ointments to the sepulchre of Christ); the Armenians celebrate on this Sunday the dedication of the first Christian church on Mount Sion.”
“Greek Church to the present day, the deacon, at his ordination, receives the hagion ripidion, or sacred fan, which is generally made to the likeness of a cherub's six-winged face, and in the sacrifice of the Mass he waves it gently over the species from the time of the”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“He referred probably to the reunion of the Greek Church with Rome, discussed between Martin V and the Byzantine emperor (John Palaeologus), but put off by reason of the pope's death.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“The Greek Church celebrates the feast of Joseph of Arimathea on 31 July, and the Roman”
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