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| | Eastern Orthodox Church |
 | | Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, which regards the Holy Spirit as proceeding from the Father and the Son, the Eastern Orthodox Church claims that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father through the Son. | | | The icon is of particular importance for the Orthodox Church since it is seen as the dwelling place of God's grace, creating in the faithful a sense of the presence of God. | | | The patriarch of Constantinople has the precedence of honour in the Orthodox Church. |
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| | Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Orthodox believe she was assumed into heaven bodily; however, unlike in the Roman Catholic Church, it is not a dogmatic prescription and the holy day is usually referred to as the Feast of the Dormition, not that of the Assumption. | | | Above the nave in the dome of the church is the icon of Christ the Almighty (Pantokratoros, "Ruler of All"). | | | Orthodox doctrine regarding the Holy Trinity is summarized in the Symbol of Faith (Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church
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| | Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Oriental Orthodoxy, which includes the Coptic Church, of Egypt, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Indian Orthodox Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Church. | | | The Eastern Orthodox Church, which includes the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, the Church of Greece and the Russian Orthodox Church. | | | Several Christian Churches or church bodies are commonly referred to as "Orthodox". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_church
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| | What is the Eastern Orthodox Church |
| | The Church is "Holy" because it is the sacred Institution for the sanctification of its faithful by the Holy Spirit. | | | Orthodox Christians also believe that it is the eternally divine and perfect Son of God who was born as a man from the Virgin Mary and lived on the earth as Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah (Christ) of Israel and the Savior of the world. | | | The term "orthodox" was used in olden times to define the faith of the Church against the heresies which arose for a while denying mainly the truth of the Holy Trinity, which the "heterodox" holds, and thus the term "Orthodox" became the chief title of the Church. |
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http://www.holyghost-oca.org/orthodoxy/orthodoxy.htm
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| | Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Catholic, Greek Orthodox |
| | The Orthodox Tradition is the theological tradition, generally associated with the national churches of the eastern Mediterranean and eastern Europe and principally with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, whose distinguishing characteristic consists in preservation of the integrity of the doctrines taught by the fathers of the seven ecumenical councils of the fourth through eighth centuries. | | | In Greece the Orthodox church is the established religion. | | | Later doctrinal affirmations by the Orthodox church - for instance, the important 14th-century definitions concerning communion with God - are seen as developments of the same original faith of the early church. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Orthodox Church |
| | The Orthodox, then, are the Christians in the East of Europe, in Egypt and Asia, who accept the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon (are therefore neither Nestorians nor Monophysites), but who, as the result of the schisms of Photius (ninth cent.) and Cerularius (eleventh cent.), are not in communion with the Catholic Church. | | | They are the six national churches of Russia, Greece, Servia, Montenegro, Rumania, and Bulgaria, four independent Churches in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, namely Carlovitz, Hermannstadt, Czernovitz, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and lastly the Church of Mount Sinai, consisting of one monastery separated from Jerusalem. | | | These sixteen Churches are: (1) The four Eastern patriarchates &; Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem &; and the Church of Cyprus, independent since the Council of Ephesus. |
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| | Catechism of The Eastern Orthodox Church |
| | But the Clerics of those Churches which do not acknowledge Holy Orders as a Sacrament or have not the uninterrupted succession, and those Clerics who were ordained by a deposed Orthodox Bishop she ordains when they come into the Orthodox Church, because they are wholly without ordination. | | | The one on earth is called: the Church Militant, and the one in Heaven is called: the Church Triumphant. | | | While the Orthodox, Anglican, and Papal Churches accept that the Mother of God is ever virgin, some Protestants from the sixteenth (16th) century onward began to teach that the Blessed Virgin Mary was the mother of other children after the birth of Jesus. |
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| | Orthodox Church : Eastern Orthodoxy |
| | History for the Church of God in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries by Hassell | | | For the Orthodox, icons have always been a part of church tradition so this tradition is considered on par with Scripture. | | | The Protestant view which raises Scripture above tradition as final authority in matters of doctrine is considered by Orthodox as the sin of the Reformation. |
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| | Hall of Church History—The Eastern Orthodox |
| | Today's Orthodox Churches are situated predominantly in Eastern Europe, but Orthodoxy is a fast-growing movement even in the West. | | | The faithful also practice a mystical spiritual discipline known as hesychasm, in which tranquility and spiritual light are sought by quietism and strict control of the body, measuring the phrasing of one's silent praying by the rythm of one's breathing, in order to unite soul and body in prayer. | | | Worship in Eastern Orthodoxy is heavily sacerdotal and mystical. |
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