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- n. The Eastern body of Christendom
- n. That part of Christendom apart from the Catholic Church
- n. Any non-Catholic Church
- n. The Eastern Orthodox Church
WordNet 3.0
- n. derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites
Examples
“The Servian Orthodox Church is closely affiliated to the Russian Church in this country, except that some of their churches do not recognize the jurisdiction or authority of the Russian archbishop.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“The first known bishop, Cyril, assisted in 325 at the Council of Nicæa; for the other Greek titulars see Le Quien, "Oriens christianus" (II, 1059-62); Hackett, "A History of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus" (London, 1901, p. 314).”
“A highly significant discovery was made in 1958 by Dr Morton Smith subsequently Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University, New York in the library of Mar Saba, an isolated and closed community of the Eastern Orthodox Church about a dozen miles from Jerusalem.”
“Under the name Raskolniki, the various offshoots and schismatic bodies originating from the Greek Orthodox Church of the Russian”
“The most famous monasteries in the southern part of the Orthodox Church are Mount Sinai, the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, the Meteora in”
“The name Orthodox Church is generally used to distinguish those of the Greek Rite who are not in communion with the Holy See.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“One of the symbolic books of the Orthodox Church is the Confession (Homologia) made by him to”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Orthodox Church among the Ruthenians of America, succeeded in arousing the Holy Governing Synod of Russia to the opportunity to spread Orthodoxy and Panslavism among the Ruthenians in America, and became a most bitter opponent of Catholicism.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Orthodox Church of Montenegro is autocephalous, i.e., independent of the Patriarch of Constantinople; its spiritual head, who bears the titles of Metropolitan of Skanderia and Parathalassia, Archbishop of”
“The Greek Ruthenian laity saw in it an attack upon their Slavic nationality and Eastern Rite, an idea which the Russian Orthodox Church eagerly fostered and magnified.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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