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- An Autocephalous Church (literally, "self-headed") refers ... Patriarch of Moscow in 1970. (The Greek Orthodox Church in North America ...9 KB (1,277 words) - 19:40, 22 August 2023
- or communion. In particular, the Eastern Orthodox Church is more closely linked ... four families of churches: the Assyrian Church of the East, the Eastern ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- Russian monks and mystics in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is generally ... began a life that was very devout to the Orthodox Church at a young age. According ...6 KB (862 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- in three languages (Hebrew, Latin, and Greek), was affixed to the cross ... the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin" (King James ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- Emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He was Greek by birth, he is said to have ... is listed under January 2. The Greek Orthodox Church celebrates it on ...4 KB (637 words) - 11:50, 13 February 2022
- Today, he is renowned as a Doctor of the Church, often known as the Doctor ... Rite Churches, the title “Doctor of the Church” is awarded to only a handful ...10 KB (1,476 words) - 08:10, 3 August 2022
- bishop of Alexandria, known in Oriental Orthodox tradition as Pope St. Dioscorus ... a reconciliation between Oriental Orthodox and Chalcedonian Christians ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 09:38, 24 November 2022
- are books considered by the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy to ... confusion between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox deuterocanon and the texts ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- Alpha and Omega (Greek: Αλφα and Ω) is an appellation of God ... In the early church, the Alpha-and-Omega symbol became Christ's ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- and the Angelus prayers. In the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches ... " This was a normal greeting in the Greek language in which Luke's ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- Lérins. It was used in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as the Anglican ... Creed is rarely used even in the Western Church and the attribution to Athanasius ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- lives of thousands of men and women in the Western Church. John Cassian is venerated as a saint in both the Roman Catholic Church ...9 KB (1,360 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- spiritual influences in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is one of three ... he left, won him a lasting place in the Orthodox tradition. ...8 KB (1,279 words) - 20:50, 17 April 2023
- bush. The monastery is run by the Greek Orthodox Church and it is classified ... under the jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem. ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- Hesychasm (from Greek: ἡσυχασμός hesychasmos, meaning "stillness ... became an official doctrine of the Greek Orthodox Church in 1351 C.E.. ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 11:44, 22 January 2024
- the core differences between Catholic and Orthodox traditions. The Latin term ... a lasting break between the Catholic and Orthodox faiths. ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- and references in the writings of the Church Fathers. Its date and authorship ... early as the first century CE. The early church historian Hegesippus (died ...11 KB (1,737 words) - 14:45, 30 December 2022
- corresponded to the developed Eastern Orthodox view rather than the western ... the Old Testament appear to derive from its Greek translation, the Septuagint ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 12:08, 24 January 2023
- into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, which then became ... Christodoulos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church, visited Pope Benedict ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 07:37, 4 January 2024
- a conference of the bishops of the whole Church convened to discuss and settle ... mean all places that are inhabited by the Church, therefore "world-wide ...25 KB (3,755 words) - 21:55, 5 October 2020
- Saint Photius, or Saint Photius the Great (Greek: Φώτιος, Phōtios ... or Bibliothēkē, a compendium of Greek literature, which ultimately ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 00:51, 23 December 2022
- 1 Esdras is a book from the Septuagint Greek translation of Hebrew ... "Esdras" is simply the Greek word for "Ezra," ...11 KB (1,713 words) - 06:31, 13 June 2023
- Gennadios patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church and gave him both ... result, for five hundred years, the Greek Orthodox Church of Constantinople ...17 KB (2,731 words) - 06:49, 18 April 2024
- Saint Andrew (first century C.E.) (Greek: Ανδρέας, Andreas ... a gesture of good will toward the Greek Orthodox Church, Pope Paul VI returned ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential ... Catholic and Orthodox traditions regarding the Fathers of the Church ...21 KB (3,112 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- Epiphany (Greek: επιφάνεια, "appearance" or "manifestation ... It goes by other names in various church traditions. In Hispanic and ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 19:09, 13 February 2024
- the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes. or sacred figure or event. Originally, in Greek, "eikon" denoted ...14 KB (2,018 words) - 20:09, 26 July 2023
- theology for the edification of the Church in troubled times. So popular ... was an important part of Nisibene church heritage as Ephrem grew up. ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- including the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox claim ... The Roman Catholic Church further asserts that Jesus Christ gave Saint ...31 KB (4,731 words) - 02:04, 9 January 2023
- The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for ... According to tradition, the Coptic Orthodox Church was established ...24 KB (3,712 words) - 21:25, 4 May 2020
- is the study of doctrine pertaining to the Church itself as a community or ... In its early history, one of the Church's earliest ecclesiological ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:54, 11 March 2024
- particularly for the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholics. He ... of the text of the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament. Basing his ...17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- The word "Eucharist" comes from the Greek noun ... reflect the tradition of the early church at the time that the New ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 04:40, 22 March 2024
- ) was one of the most prolific writers of the early Church. He was ... to be highly influential in the Eastern Orthodox Church especially, where ...13 KB (2,034 words) - 15:50, 25 January 2023
- Written in Greek, probably in Alexandria, Egypt in the first or late ... A skilled narrator, he apparently wrote in Greek for a diasporan Jewish audience ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- for sins. The indulgence is granted by the Church after the sinner has confessed ... a certain amount of money as alms to the Church, and in some cases were offered ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 19:36, 8 October 2020
- conversion of Kiev and Novgorod to the Orthodox Church and began the destruction ... works. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the feast ...12 KB (1,795 words) - 20:46, 3 May 2023
- at variance with that of the one Catholic Church, and they recognize the central ... and in this sense are members of the Catholic Church. The term "Roman ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- (the process of salvation) in the early Church. The doctrine has a ... is an English rendering of the original Greek wording found in the Apostles ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- because it is addressed to no particular church or person, it is a brief ... disputed by some authorities in the early church but, it was accepted as canonical ...9 KB (1,490 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- an eminent doctor of the Western Christian Church. A sometimes persecuted champion ... While in exile he used his knowledge of Greek to create the first Latin ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 13:14, 22 January 2024
- feast of the Annunciation in the Greek Orthodox Church also marks a day ... of the eighteenth century by the Greek Orthodox Church. ...12 KB (2,039 words) - 05:11, 31 July 2023
- Lossky was a Russian Orthodox who was, by his own admission, "less ... which he converted back to the Russian Orthodox Church under the direction ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon, pronounced ... to Tobit's son, Tobiah or Tobiyah (Greek: Tobias), who is sent by ...8 KB (1,317 words) - 15:33, 30 January 2024
- St. Catherine's Monastery, following church tradition, believe that this ... are considered to be eternal things; the Orthodox definition of salvation ...11 KB (1,770 words) - 06:58, 21 April 2023
- to as paedobaptism or pedobaptism, from the Greek pais meaning "child ... infant baptism. Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian ...16 KB (2,399 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- Rome and Constantinople, reuniting the Greek and Latin churches after ... before becoming a deacon of the Roman church. In that capacity he was ...17 KB (2,672 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2022
- , also called Saint Basil the Great (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος ... which is still used today in the Eastern Orthodox Church. ...16 KB (2,517 words) - 03:31, 1 January 2022
- The book of 3 Maccabees is found in most Orthodox Bibles as a part ... the Maccabees or their revolt against the Greek Empire, as described in 1 ...9 KB (1,497 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- a virgin martyr and saint of the Christian church. Also known as Saint Agnes ... as a saint in both the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, as well as most ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- and sought to restore Attic purity to the Greek language. He was a devoted ... a fervent supporter of the union of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches (the ...8 KB (1,270 words) - 17:58, 30 April 2023
- number of disciplinary rules governing church administration and authority ... not Monophysites, and are now accepted as orthodox by Catholic and Eastern ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 08:25, 10 January 2024
- Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian ... the (Masoretic) Hebrew and the (Septuagint) Greek manuscripts of the Book of ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
- Ecumenism (from the Greek οἰκουμένη been lost with the fragmentation of the Church into different groups. ...23 KB (3,375 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- biblical canon by Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, but not by most Protestants. The Wisdom of Ben Sira was translated into Greek by Jesus ben Sira's ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- simply means "fiftieth" from the Greek, Πεντηκοστή. The ... number fifty days (Hebrew: hamishshim yom; Greek: πεντήκοντα ‘ημέρας ...19 KB (3,024 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- The Sultan regarded the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox ... their secret ties to the Greek Orthodox Church. Crypto-Christians ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- A deacon is a Christian church office generally associated with service ... The word deacon is derived from the Greek word diakonos (διάκονος ...20 KB (3,190 words) - 19:56, 22 May 2020
- a person went by both a Hebrew name and a Greek name. The later Christian ... a tradition preserved by the early church historian Eusebius (fourth ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- Nestorian schism, separating the Assyrian Church of the East from the Byzantine ... believed that Christ was indeed one person (Greek: prosopon). Opposed by Cyril ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- The name Anicetus is Greek for unconquered. He was a Syrian from the ... Polycarp of Smyrna visited the Roman church during Anicetus' time ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 09:26, 24 November 2022
- an "equal of the apostles" in Orthodox tradition. However, it also ... by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions. Several churches ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- Protestantism, Orthodox Christianity Orthodox Portal, [http://www.pravmir ... to Japan from Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox churches. When religious ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Born of the Davidic lineage, her name is a Greek rendering of the Hebrew Hannah ... Saint Anne has long been venerated in the Orthodox churches, but did ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- branch of Christianity such as the Greek Orthodox Church or the Church of ... | Greece || Greek Orthodox Church || Eastern Orthodox || no ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- A letter attributed to him, written to the church at Corinth, is the first ... sources of information about the early church. However, a large body of ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- and those who chose to adhere to the Syriac church. ==Nasrani and Saint ... as descendants of the early Mar Thoma church or Saint Thomas tradition ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 22:35, 11 January 2024
- ethical problems. The Catholic and Orthodox versions of Esther, based ... the Dead Sea Scrolls. Jewish editors of Greek Septuagint translation included ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- For example, the Armenian Apostolic Church honours him along with Saint ... the betrayer of Jesus. Their name is a Greek variant of Judah and was ...13 KB (2,095 words) - 06:38, 28 February 2023
- however, and he was condemned at a local church synod in Constantinople in 448. ... the "Mother of God" (theotokos in Greek, literally "God-bearer ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 05:26, 5 April 2021
- was a significant leader in the earliest church, but he drops out of the ... attributed to John, though not by the orthodox Christian traditions. ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 17:09, 4 May 2024
- Apocrypha (from the Greek: ἀπόκρυφα , meaning "hidden" ... of the Bible; however, Catholic and Orthodox Christians describe these ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- basis of the monasticism in the Eastern Orthodox Churches, as well as some ... monasticism came to prevail throughout the Greek-speaking lands, though the ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 03:26, 1 January 2022
- as canonical by Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant groupings. ... only in Latin manuscripts but in not Greek ones—appear to be later ...13 KB (2,222 words) - 06:43, 13 June 2023
- and included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons of the Bible. Protestants ... the Great, when the country was part of the Greek Seleucid Empire. It tells ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
- actively involved in ridding the Roman church of Gnosticism and other heresies ... #039;s time, Rome celebrated the Mass in Greek, and he may have been the ...14 KB (2,181 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- Amillennialism (Greek: a- "not" + Latin: mille "thousand ... of the Catholic Church but also the Greek Orthodox Church. It is also adhered ...19 KB (2,732 words) - 07:00, 25 July 2023
- to Jewish males over the age of 13. Non-Orthodox Jewish movements allow women ... is the chief singer employed in a church with responsibilities for ...15 KB (2,193 words) - 19:28, 25 November 2023
- who had acted as secretary for the Roman church during the persecution of ... followers held a puritanical view of the church, adopting the policy that ...17 KB (2,510 words) - 22:16, 16 November 2022
- so thoroughly suppressed that no complete Greek or Latin version has survived ... of Jubilees were fragmentary quotations in Greek (in a work by Epiphanius ...13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
- Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning "one" and physis ... Levant, Egypt, and Anatolia, while western church, under the discipline of ...23 KB (3,529 words) - 20:01, 9 November 2022
- as canonical by Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians. Another four ... An angel (from Greek: ἄγγελος, ángelos, meaning "messenger ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- unsuccessful, he later turned to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and was the ... ethnic community. He was canonized by the Orthodox Church. ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- Its original texts were written in Koine Greek by various authors ... Apostolic Fathers (generally considered orthodox) and the New Testament Apocrypha ...25 KB (3,826 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2022
- tradition of the early Christian church. ==New Testament== ... became codified as the Mass in Catholic Church and as the Divine Liturgy ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 15:39, 30 April 2023
- applied to members of the Coptic Orthodox Church irrespective of ethnic ... More than 95 percent of Copts belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 03:00, 8 January 2024
- the nations." (1:1) It encourages the church to maintain its faith in ... is it not the rich who are persecuting the church and slandering the name of ...13 KB (2,152 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- In Moesia, Ulfilas translated the Bible from Greek into the Gothic ... According to fragments of the Cappadocian church historian Philostorgius ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- of faith accepted in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church ... version of Constantinople 381 in the Orthodox churches, where this is ...31 KB (3,964 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- passion. Among churches other than the Orthodox Church, it has always been ... While once accepted as a deuterocanonical book by the Orthodox, 4 ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- given in the West to the ancient, Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible ... two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- Karlovo, and in 1837, went to study in the Greek Orthodox College in Istanbul ... . A Greek friend helped him escape to France. A year-and-a-half later ...16 KB (2,460 words) - 20:16, 13 December 2023
- ) is an ancient Greek word meaning the "right or opportune moment ... In the Eastern Orthodox Church, before the Divine Liturgy begins, ...9 KB (1,381 words) - 22:33, 4 October 2022
- Baptism, from Greek βαπτίζω associated with admission to a Christian church. Although the primary meaning ...24 KB (3,694 words) - 07:45, 20 September 2023
- A basilica, in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, is a church building ... *The Greek Orthodox church at Saint Catherine's Monastery on ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 03:32, 1 January 2022
- According to the Liber Pontificalis, Sixtus was Greek by birth, although ... Although the Liber Pontificalis says that Sixtus II was Greek, modern ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 11:45, 13 February 2022
- the Last Days in opposition to God and His church. From its New Testament origins ... Antichrist is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 06:20, 31 July 2023
- Makarios III (Greek: Μακάριος Γ, born Mihail Christodoulou ... gained momentum. His Presidency saw both Greek and Turkish interference ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- groups do adhere to it, the Catholic Church no longer strictly upholds ... * Church history and tradition * One's individual experience with God ...17 KB (2,614 words) - 03:41, 1 October 2023
- rulers, the self-governing Serbian Orthodox Church was born. The first ... transfer of power followed. He convened a Church synod to oversee and sanction ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 18:44, 7 February 2024
