Slavic Orthodox Churches

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Slavic Orthodox Churches are Eastern Christian churches rooted in the Slavic cultural and linguistic tradition, sharing Byzantine liturgy, theology, and sacramental life.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf group of Eastern Orthodox churches
religious tradition
culturalContext Slavic
followsChristology Chalcedonian Christology
followsEcclesiology conciliarity (synodality)
geographicConcentration Balkans
Belarus
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Eastern Europe
Montenegro
North Macedonia
Poland
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovakia
Ukraine
governanceForm autocephalous and autonomous churches
historicalInfluenceFrom Byzantine Empire
historicalMissionaryFigures Saints Cyril and Methodius
historicalRoot Christianization of the Slavs
includesChurch Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia
surface form: Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church

Macedonian Orthodox Church
surface form: Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric

Montenegrin Orthodox Church (disputed status)
Polish Orthodox Church
Romanian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church
Serbian Orthodox Church
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
surface form: Ukrainian Orthodox Church (various jurisdictions)
linguisticTradition Slavic languages
recognizesAuthority Patriarchate of Constantinople
surface form: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (primacy of honor)
recognizesCouncil Council of Chalcedon
Council of Ephesus
First Council of Constantinople
First Council of Nicaea
rejectsDoctrine Filioque clause in the Nicene Creed
surface form: Filioque clause

papal supremacy
religiousFamily Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy
scriptTradition Cyrillic script
surface form: Cyrillic alphabet

Glagolitic script
surface form: Glagolitic alphabet (historically)
sharesCanonicalText Koine Greek New Testament
surface form: Greek New Testament

Septuagint-based Old Testament
sharesCreed Nicene Creed
surface form: Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (without Filioque)
sharesDoctrine apostolic succession
theosis (deification)
veneration of icons
sharesFeast Dormition of the Theotokos
Nativity of Christ
surface form: Nativity of Christ (Christmas)

Easter
surface form: Pascha (Easter)

Theophany
Transfiguration
sharesLiturgy Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
surface form: Presanctified Liturgy of St. Gregory the Dialogist
sharesLiturgyType Byzantine Rite
sharesMonasticTradition Byzantine monasticism
sharesSacrament Holy Eucharist
surface form: Eucharist

anointing of the sick
baptism
chrismation
confession
marriage
ordination
sharesSacramentalLife Eastern Orthodox sacramental theology
sharesTheology Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodox theology
usesCalendar Julian calendar (in many churches)
Revised Julian or Gregorian calendar (in some churches)
usesLiturgicalLanguage Church Slavonic
local Slavic vernaculars
venerates Christian saints
surface form: Eastern Orthodox saints

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Old Church Slavonic Bible tradition Slavic Orthodox Churches
this entity surface form: Slavic Orthodox Christianity
Paraklesis to the Theotokos veneratedIn Slavic Orthodox Churches
Kiev Missal denomination Slavic Orthodox Churches
this entity surface form: Slavic Christianity
Christ is Risen usedBy Slavic Orthodox Churches