Trisagion Hymn

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The Trisagion Hymn is an ancient and central Christian liturgical chant that repeatedly acclaims God as “Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal,” used especially in Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic worship.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian liturgical hymn
Christian prayer
liturgical chant
addressedTo God
approximateCenturyOfOrigin 5th century
associatedWithDoctrine Christology
Trinity
category Eastern Christian hymn
Greek liturgical hymn
commemoratedIn Eastern Christian liturgical commentaries
controversy Christological disputes in the 5th century
hasVariant Trisagion with the addition "who wast crucified for us"
includedIn Eastern Christian devotional practice
Orthodox prayer rule
influenced later Eastern Christian hymnography
languageOfEarliestForm Greek
liturgicalFunction acclamation of God
penitential supplication
processional chant
liturgicalRank fixed ordinary element of the Divine Liturgy
musicalForm chant
openingWords Agios o Theos, Agios Ischyros, Agios Athanatos, eleison imas
originPeriod late antiquity
performancePractice antiphonal singing
responsorial singing
petition have mercy on us
recitedBefore Scripture readings in the Divine Liturgy
refrainStructure threefold acclamation of God
religiousTradition Christianity
repetitionCount threefold
textType short acclamatory hymn
theologyFocus divine holiness
divine immortality
divine power
traditionallyLinkedTo Byzantine liturgical development
translationOfOpeningWords Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us
usedBy choir
clergy
congregation
usedDuring Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
surface form: Divine Liturgy

Great Compline
Orthros
funeral services
various sacramental services
usedIn Byzantine Rite
Eastern Catholic Churches
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church

Oriental Orthodoxy
surface form: Oriental Orthodox Churches

Syriac liturgical tradition
veneratedAs ancient and central element of Eastern Christian worship

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