Eastern Orthodox Christianity

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Eastern Orthodox Christianity is one of the three main branches of Christianity, characterized by its continuity with the early Church, its liturgical worship, and its communion of autocephalous churches centered primarily in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.


Statements (111)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian denomination family
branch of Christianity
alsoKnownAs Eastern Orthodoxy
Orthodox Christianity
Orthodox Church
attributesToLeader primacy of honor to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
centralFigure Jesus Christ
coreDoctrine Incarnation of Jesus Christ
Trinity
bodily Resurrection of Christ
original sin understood as ancestral sin
real presence of Christ in the Eucharist
veneration of saints
veneration of the Theotokos
doesNotHave single universal earthly head like the Pope
emphasizes Holy Tradition
apostolic succession
continuity with the early Church
liturgical worship
sacramental life
theosis
eschatology belief in Second Coming of Christ
belief in final judgment
belief in resurrection of the dead
followsCreed Nicene Creed
Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed
geographicCenter Balkans
Caucasus region
Eastern Europe
Middle East
governedBy synods of bishops
hasClergyRank bishop
deacon
priest
hasHolyBookPart New Testament
Old Testament
hasLeaderRole Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
hasLiturgicalForm Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
hasMajorChurch Antiochian Orthodox Church
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Georgian Orthodox Church
Greek Orthodox Church
Orthodox Church in America
Orthodox Church of Albania
Orthodox Church of Alexandria
Orthodox Church of Cyprus
Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
Orthodox Church of Poland
Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia
Romanian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Church
Serbian Orthodox Church
hasMonasticTradition hesychasm
hasPolity communion of autocephalous churches
episcopal polity
hasPopulation hundreds of millions of adherents worldwide
hasPrimaryScripture Bible
hasSacrament Anointing of the Sick
Baptism
Chrismation
Confession
Eucharist
Holy Orders
Marriage
hasSpiritualSource Philokalia
hasSpiritualWriter Church Fathers
hasSupremeOffice archbishop
metropolitan
patriarch
hasTheology Nicene Christianity
historicalOrigin Eastern Roman Empire
early Christian Church
liturgicalFocus Divine Liturgy
majorFeast Dormition of the Theotokos
Nativity of Christ
Pascha
Theophany
Transfiguration
moralTeachingBasedOn Sermon on the Mount
Ten Commandments
partOf Christianity
practices fasting
icon veneration
liturgical chant
monasticism
use of incense in worship
recognizesCouncil Council of Chalcedon
Council of Ephesus
First Council of Constantinople
First Council of Nicaea
Second Council of Constantinople
Second Council of Nicaea
Third Council of Constantinople
rejectsDoctrine Filioque clause in the Nicene Creed
papal supremacy as defined in Roman Catholicism
sharesRootsWith Oriental Orthodoxy
Roman Catholicism
splitFrom Roman Catholic Church in the East–West Schism of 1054
usesCalendar Julian calendar in many churches
Revised Julian calendar in some churches
usesLanguage Arabic in liturgy
Church Slavonic in liturgy
Georgian in liturgy
Koine Greek in liturgy
Romanian in liturgy
various vernacular languages in liturgy
usesRite Byzantine Rite
usesScripture Septuagint-based Old Testament in many traditions
worships Holy Trinity

Referenced by (showing first 500 of 924)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Abkhazians
Adjara
Adjarians
Albanians ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Alexander Nevsky ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Alexandros Mavrokordatos ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Alexios I Komnenos
Alexis of Russia ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Archbishop of Athens and All Greece ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Archimandrite Ignaty ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Austrians ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Baku Governorate ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Bartholomew I of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Basil II
Batumi
Berditchev, Russian Empire ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Black Sea Governorate ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Boris Godunov ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Boris III of Bulgaria ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Bosnia and Herzegovina ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Boyana Church
Bukovina ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Bulgarian National Revival ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Bulgarian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Bulgarian royal family ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Bulgarian schism ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Iconoclasm ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Byzantine Iconoclasm ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Caribbean Americans ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Caterina Gattilusio ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Chkondidi Cathedral ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Christianization of Kievan Rus'
Church of the Deposition of the Robe ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Church of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Chuvash ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Constantine I of Greece ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Constantine XI Palaiologos ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Corfu (city)
Cossack Hetmanate ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Cossacks ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Daniel Ciobotea ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Daniil Aleksandrovich of Moscow ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Danubian Principalities ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Danylo of Halych ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Daphni Monastery ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
David IV of Georgia
Demetrios Palaiologos ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Despot of the Morea
Dečani Monastery ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Dionysios Solomos ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Dionysiou Monastery ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Dmitry Donskoy ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Dochiariou Monastery ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Duchy of Athens ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Duchy of Neopatras ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
East Slavs ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
El Greco ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Eleni Kounalakis ("Greek Orthodox Christianity")
Elisavetgrad, Russian Empire ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Emil Cioran ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Emperor of the Romans ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Empress Irene of Athens
Eudoxia Lopukhina ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Eudoxia Streshneva ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
European Canadians ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
False Dmitry I ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Feodor III of Russia ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Finnish Karelians ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
First Bulgarian Empire
G. E. H. Palmer ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Gagauz
Gelati Monastery
Genoese colonies in Crimea ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Georgian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Georgy Malenkov ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Golden Horde ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Governorate of Livonia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Grand Duchy of Lithuania ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Grand Duchy of Moscow ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Grand Duchy of Vladimir ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Greeks
Gregory Palamas ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Guria
Gurians
Helena Dragaš ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Hilandar Monastery ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy Metropolis of Stagoi and Meteora ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy Mountain ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy Synod (Georgian Orthodox Church) ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy Synod of Bishops ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy Synod of the Church of Greece ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy Trinity Monastery ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete 2016) ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
House of Godunov ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Hungarian American diaspora ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Ieronymos II of Athens ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Ilia II ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Imereti
Imeretians
Ingrian Finns ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Ioannis Kapodistrias ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Ioannis Phokas ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Ivan III of Russia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Ivan IV the Terrible ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Iviron Monastery ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Jean Moréas ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
John H. Sununu
John VIII Palaiologos ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Jordanian Arab Orthodox ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Joseph Stalin ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Jvari Monastery
Kakheti
Kakhetians
Kalderash
Kallistos Ware ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kalymnos
Karelia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kartlians
Karyes
Kiev Governorate ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
King George I of Greece ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Kingdom of Bulgaria ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kingdom of Georgia
Kingdom of Greece ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Kingdom of Hungary ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kingdom of Imereti ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland) ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kingdom of Romania ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Komnenos dynasty ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Konstamonitou Monastery ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Konstantin Mereschkowski ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Koutloumousiou Monastery ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kraljevo (Žiča) ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kresy ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kuzma Minin ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Kyivan Rus
Kyriakos Mitsotakis ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Leo I of Galicia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Leonid Kravchuk ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
religion
Alexander Nevsky Lavra ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Bagrati Cathedral ("Eastern Orthodox")
Bulgarian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Simferopol ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Church of St. John the Baptist (8th–10th century) ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Church of the Holy Apostles ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Council of Hieria ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Dochiariou Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Great Lavra ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Greek Necropolis
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Iviron Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Karakallou Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Kazan Cathedral ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Konstamonitou Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Koutloumousiou Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Orthodox Church in America ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Pantokratoros Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Patriarch Porfirije ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Patriarch of All Romania ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Patriarchate of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Romanian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Saint Cassian of Imola ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Saint Patrick ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Saint Petersburg Theological Academy ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Second Council of Constantinople ("Chalcedonian Christianity")
Second Council of Nicaea ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
St. George’s Cathedral, Phanar ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
St. Michael’s Cathedral
St. Paul Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Stavronikita Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Vatopedi Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Xenophontos Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Xeropotamou Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
denomination
Advent ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Apostles' Fast ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Ascension ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Ash Wednesday ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Black Saturday ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Dormition of the Theotokos ("Eastern Orthodox Christians")
Easter Eve ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Eastertide ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Epiphany ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Feast of the Holy Innocents ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos ("Eastern Orthodox Christians")
Good Friday ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Great Fifty Days ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Holy Saturday ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Holy Tuesday ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Holy Week ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Joyous Saturday ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Lent ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Maundy Thursday ("Eastern Orthodox Christians")
Resurrection Sunday ("Eastern Orthodox Christians")
St George's Day ("Eastern Orthodox Christians")
Sunday ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Whitsunday ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
observedBy
Chalcedonian Definition ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Church Fathers ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Constantinople III ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Council of Chalcedon ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Council of Ephesus ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Council of Jerusalem ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
First Council of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
First Council of Nicaea ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Fourteen anathemas against the Three Chapters ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Gospels ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Historical Books (Christian canon) ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
James the brother of Jesus ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Joseph ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Lateran Council of 649 ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Pauline Epistles ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Second Council of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Third Council of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Third Ecumenical Council ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Tome of Leo ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
recognizedBy
Belarus ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Bulgarians
Cyprus
Eastern Europe ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Epirus
Georgians
Germans ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Holy Mountain
Kartvelebi
Lanchkhuti
Lemnos
Montenegrins ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Romania
Russians ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Sarajevo ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Serbs ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Ukraine ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Ukrainians ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
majorReligion
Balkans ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Btourram
Chokhatauri
First Hellenic Republic ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
House of Oldenburg ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Istria ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Late Byzantine period
Monomakhovichi
Skopelos
South Caucasus
Volhynia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Western Georgia
Yurievichi
hasReligion
Athanasius of Alexandria ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
Basil of Caesarea ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
Evagrius Ponticus ("Eastern Orthodox spirituality")
Great Commission ("Eastern Orthodox mission theology")
Gregory Palamas ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
John Chrysostom ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
John of Damascus ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
Maximus the Confessor ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
influenced
2 Maccabees ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Acts of the Apostles ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Book of Revelation ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Catholic Epistles ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
First Epistle of John ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Gospel of Luke ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Second Epistle to the Corinthians ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
The Twelve Minor Prophets ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
canonicalIn
Gregory Palamas ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Macarius of Antioch ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Maximus the Confessor ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus' ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Saint Cyril ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Saint Isaac of Dalmatia ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Saint Methodius ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
church
Blagoevgrad ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Central Europe ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Eastern Georgia
European Russia
Gori
Middle Ages ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Ozurgeti
Socialist Republic of Croatia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
dominantReligion
Epistle of Jude ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Epistle to Philemon ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Epistle to Titus ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Epistle to the Philippians ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Esther ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
First Epistle to Timothy ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Second Epistle to Timothy ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Third Epistle of John ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
includedInCanonOf
Ascension Day ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Easter ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Palm Sunday ("Eastern Orthodox Christians")
Pentecost ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Transfiguration ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
celebratedBy
Coronation of the Virgin ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Easter Vigil ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Little Entrance ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
On the Making of Man ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
Original sin ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Tatyana
associatedWith
Alix of Hesse and by Rhine ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Catherine I of Russia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Empress Alexandra Feodorovna ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Olga of Kiev ("Christianity in Constantinople")
Peter III of Russia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
convertedTo
Georgian script
Lazistan
Nuskhuri
Petro
Vladimir ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
associatedReligion
Imperial double-headed eagle of Russia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Mary ("Orthodox Christianity")
Mtskheta
Slavs ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Via Dolorosa ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
associatedWithReligion
Father, Son, and Spirit are not distinct eternal persons ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Modalism ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Monothelitism ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Nestorianism ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Pelagianism ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
consideredHeresyBy
Caucasus
Poland-Lithuania in the early modern period ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Simferopol ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Slavic cultural sphere ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Volyn Oblast ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
hasMajorReligion
Bulgarian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodox communion")
Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodox communion")
Kallistos Ware ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Orthodox Church of Albania ("Eastern Orthodox communion")
Patriarch Athenagoras I ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
memberOf
Antiochian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Greek Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodox communion")
Orthodox Church of Alexandria ("Eastern Orthodox communion")
Orthodox Church of Jerusalem ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Serbian Patriarch ("Eastern Orthodox communion")
partOf
Athanasius of Alexandria ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Constantine the Great ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Constantinus Magnus ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Gregory Palamas ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
canonizedBy
Patmos
Samegrelo
St. Anne Skete
Tsageri
primaryReligion
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ("Orthodox Church")
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ("Orthodox Christianity")
alsoKnownAs
Latter-day Saint movement churches ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Lutheranism ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
Protestant Christianity ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
differsFrom
Three Kings Day ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Western civilization ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
icon of Our Lady of Kazan (copy) ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
hasReligiousTradition
Apostolic Succession ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Holy Tradition ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Perpetual Virginity of Mary ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
isAffirmedBy
Confirmation ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Sacrament of Confirmation ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
hesychast tradition ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
practicedIn
Docetism ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Filioque clause in the Nicene Creed ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Tritheism ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
rejectedBy
Gospel of Matthew ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Letter to the Hebrews ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
acceptedBy
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (Yalta) ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Faith and Order Commission ("Eastern Orthodox churches")
affiliation
Canon law ("Eastern Orthodox Churches")
Eastern Orthodox canon law ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
appliesTo
St. Peter of Damascus ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Symeon the New Theologian ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
churchTradition
Greek Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Orthodox Church of Cyprus ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
communionWith
Constitution of 1827 (Troezen) ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Constitution of 1952 (Greece) ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
definedStateReligion
Christian Church ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Oriental Orthodoxy ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
distinguishesFrom
Second Coming of Christ ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
resurrection of Jesus Christ ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
doctrineHeldBy
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ("Orthodox Church of Poland")
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ("Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia")
hasMajorChurch
Amorgos
Kaspi Municipality
hasPrimaryReligion
Christianization of Bulgaria ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Social Trinitarianism ("Eastern Orthodox Trinitarian theology")
influencedBy
Christianization of Europe ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
East–West Schism ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
involves
Coptic Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
Syriac Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
notInCommunionWith
Hilandar Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Christians")
Iviron Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Christians")
pilgrimageSiteFor
Unitatis Redintegratio ("Eastern Orthodox Churches")
addresses
Trinity ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
affirmedBy
Incarnation of Christ ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
affirmedByTradition
St. George’s Cathedral, Phanar ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
associatedBranchOfChristianity
St. Patrick's Day ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
associatedChurch
Mkhedruli
associatedReligionHistorical
Canon 1 ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
authorityIn
Ivan VI of Russia ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
baptismReligion
St. Andrew Skete ("Orthodox Church")
belongsTo
Feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
belongsToTradition
Feast of the Theophany ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
celebratedIn
universal Church ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
centralInTradition
Holy Eucharist ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
centralTo
Holy Baptism ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
centralToDenomination
Annunciation ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
commemoratedBy
Saint David ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
commemoratedIn
Pyrrhus of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
condemnedBy
Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete 2016) ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
confession
Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church ("Orthodox Christianity")
confessionalFamily
Patripassianism ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
consideredErrorBy
Holy Eucharist ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
consideredSacramentBy
Chalcedon ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
councilInfluenceOn
Byzantine Empire ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
culturalInfluence
Mikhail ("Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition")
culturalOrigin
Romanians ("Eastern Orthodox world")
culturalSphere
Orthodox Church of Alexandria ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
denominationalFamily
Oriental Orthodoxy ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
dialogueWith
Final Judgment ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
doctrineIn
Nicene Christianity ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
dominantInBranch
Old Catholicism ("Eastern Orthodox churches")
ecumenicalRelations
Kingship of Jesus ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
emphasizedInTradition
Andrew the Apostle ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
feastDayObservedBy
Kallistos Ware ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
fieldOfWork
Bartholomew I of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
follows
Orthodox Church of Jerusalem ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
followsTheology
St. Stephen Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
governedBy
Christian missionary movements ("Eastern Orthodox churches")
hasAgent
Decalogue ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
hasCanonicalStatusIn
Bible ("Orthodox canon")
hasCanonVariationIn
Byzantine poetry
hasCulturalContext
St. Panteleimon Monastery ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
hasDenomination
Qasr al-Yahud ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
hasDenominationalUse
Mount Lebanon ("Greek Orthodox Christians")
hasEthnicGroup
Third Council of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
hasImpactOn
Christianity ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
hasMajorBranch
Alexey
hasNameDayTradition
Pantokratoros Monastery ("Orthodox Christianity")
hasPrimaryFaith
Svan language
hasPrimaryReligionOfSpeakers
Greek War of Independence
hasReligionOfMajorityInsurgents
Eastern Slovakia ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
hasReligiousCommunity
Byzantine art ("Orthodox Christianity")
hasReligiousContext
Christian Roma ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
hasReligiousDenomination
Antiochian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
hasTheologicalTradition
Virgin Birth of Jesus ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
heldBy
Trabzon
historicallyHadReligion
Macedonians
historicalReligion
Eastern Christianity ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
includes
Patriarchal cross ("Orthodox Church")
isAssociatedWith
Assumption of Mary ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
isBelievedBy
Holy Tradition ("Eastern Orthodox theology")
isCentralTo
Nativity of Christ ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
isCentralToTradition
Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
isLiturgicallyObservedBy
Great Week ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
isObservedBy
Consubstantiation ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
isOftenRejectedBy
Christian ethics ("Orthodox Church")
isPracticedBy
Holy Orders ("Orthodox Churches")
isRecognizedBy
Bible ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
isSacredTextOf
Paschal cycle ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
isUsedBy
Bartholomew I of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
leaderOf
Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
liturgicalTradition
Gagauz ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
majorDenomination
World Council of Churches ("Eastern Orthodox churches")
membershipIncludes
Turkmenistan ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
minorityReligion
Lithuanians ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
minorReligion
Lev
nameDayTradition
Poles ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
notableMinorityReligion
Kallistos Ware ("The Orthodox Church")
notableWork
Immaculate Conception ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
notDogmaIn
Lateran Council of 649 ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
notEcumenicalFor
Fourth Council of Constantinople ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
notRecognizedAsEcumenicalBy
Council of Hieria ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
notRecognizedBy
Byzantine Empire ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
officialChurch
First Bulgarian Empire ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
officialReligionAfterChristianization
Terjola
officialReligionMajority
Georgian Orthodox Church ("Eastern Orthodox")
orientation
Hagia Sophia ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
originalDenomination
Photian Schism ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
participant
Unction of the Sick ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
practicedBy
Savior ("Eastern Orthodoxy")
prominentInTradition
Canon 28 ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
receivedBy
Psalm 151 ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
recognizedAsCanonicalBy
John Chrysostom ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
recognizedAsEcumenicalDoctorBy
Holy Baptism ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
recognizedAsSacramentBy
Constitution of 1827 (Troezen) ("Eastern Orthodox Church")
recognizedReligion

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