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| | Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Orthodox Christians believe in a single God who is both three and one—Triune—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, "one in essence and undivided." The Holy Trinity is three "unconfused" distinct divine persons (hypostases), with no overlap or modality among them, who share one divine essence (ousia)—uncreated, immaterial and eternal. | | | Eastern Orthodox Monks at prayer in their monastery church. | | | Anointing, or Holy Unction, is one of the seven sacraments recognized by the Orthodox Church. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eastern Churches |
| | Eastern Churches depend originally on the Eastern Empire at Constantinople; they are those that either find their centre in the patriarchate of that city (since the centralization of the fourth century) or have been formed by schisms which in the first instance concerned Constantinople rather than the Western world. | | | Eastern Church, 326); the ludicrous scandal at Monastir, in Macedonia, when they fought over a dead man's body and set the whole town ablaze because some wanted him to be buried in Greek and some in Rumanian (op. | | | The people have gradually mixed up Christianity with a number of pagan and magical elements, and are specially noted for strong Jewish tendencies (they circumcise and have on their altars a sort of Ark of the Covenant containing the Ten Commandments). |
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| | CNN.com - Orthodox Christians in Holy Land celebrate Christmas - Jan. 6, 2004 |
| | The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Eireneos I, dressed in a red cape with gold embroidery, was kissed and hugged by Bethlehem officials and greeted by a large crowd of residents as he made his way to the Church of the Nativity, escorted by police. | | | Christmas falls on January 7 for Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, Russia and other Eastern Orthodox churches that use the old Julian calendar instead of the 16th-century Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholics and Protestants and commonly used in secular life around the world. | | | Other Orthodox Christians, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew -- the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox -- and the Greek church in Greece and the Americas, celebrated the holiday on December 25. |
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| | The Rev. Sharon E. Watkins, senior minister of the Disciples Christian Church of Bartlesville, Okla., has been nominated to become the next leader of the Indianapolis-based Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). | | | Western Christian churches use the Gregorian calendar, which adds leap days, sometimes placing Easter before Passover, as happened this year. | | | Archbishop Demetrios, primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in America, which claims about 1.5 million members in the United States, will lead an Agape Service on Easter at Holy Trinity Cathedral in New York. |
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| | Orthodox Church : Eastern Orthodoxy |
| | For the Orthodox, icons have always been a part of church tradition so this tradition is considered on par with Scripture. | | | Like Eastern Orthodoxy, we also hold in common the view that the rejection of the Trinity constitutes heresy. | | | The Fundamental Teachings of the Eastern Orthodox Church By Rev. George Mastrantonis |
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| | Our Faith |
| | The Origins and Authority of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church | | | The Boundaries of the Church: An Orthodox Debate | | | The Greek (Eastern) Orthodox Church and The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Of America |
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| | Adherents.com: Orthodox (Eastern) Christians |
| | The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest religious body in the world. | | | This data set is from the 1990 National Survey of Religious Identification, conducted by the City University of New York, based on self-identification, as collected through a nationwide phone survey of 113,000 people. | | | Top 10 U.S. States with the Highest Proportion of Orthodox (Eastern) Christians |
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| | Orthodox Church in America |
| | 10/05 - Bishop Tikhon to be installed as Orthodox Bishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania | | | 10/14 - 2006 National Orthodox Camp Conference to be held in Minnesota January 26-29 | | | 10/07 - Wonderworking Sitka Icon visits NE Ohio Orthodox parishes |
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