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| | USCCB - Guidelines Concerning The Pastoral Care of Oriental Orthodox Students in Catholic Schools |
 | | The Oriental Orthodox Churches today are the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Church, and the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India. | | | The Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox Churches do not allow their faithful to receive sacraments in any church outside the Oriental Orthodox communion, but the Armenian and Syrian Orthodox do allow it in some circumstances. | | | As a matter of principle, the Catholic Church does not seek converts among the faithful of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. |
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http://www.nccbuscc.org/seia/oriental.htm
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| | HTC: Orthodox Statements on Homosexuality |
| | For the Eastern Orthodox the goal of ecumenism is for all Christian churches to be orthodox and catholic, and so to be factually and actually one in faith and worship, in doctrine and church order, in proclamation and action. | | | Harakas in his paper, and the Orthodox who accepted it in the NCCC have understood it) to mean that the God-given unity of the Church which exists fully in the doctrinal and sacramental forms of the Orthodox Church must be manifested more fully and correctly among all churches in the NCCC. | | | The painful fact of Orthodox participation in the NCCC is that what is frequently manifested is not "ever more fully the unity of the Church," but the differences between the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Tradition and the teachings and practices of the Christian communions. |
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http://www.holy-trinity.org/morality/homosexuality.html
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| | Catholic sacraments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Oriental Orthodox communions also have the requisite mystical powers according to Catholics, but Protestant ministers do not. | | | Oriental Orthodox churches likewise have sacraments (also called mysteries) but neither formally restricts the number of sacraments to seven. | | | Adult converts from Protestantism who were previously baptized with a trinitarian formula are received into communion in the Catholic Church by confirmation. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sacraments
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| | Oriental Orthodox - OrthodoxWiki |
| | The Assyrian Church of the East ( Nestorian Church) is sometimes considered an Oriental Orthodox Church, although they left the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church in reaction to the Council of Ephesus 20 years earlier and revere as saints men anathematized by the previously mentioned Churches. | | | The separation resulted in part from the Oriental Orthodox churches' refusal to accept the Christological dogmas promulgated by the Council of Chalcedon, which held that Jesus Christ has two natures — one divine and one human, although these were inseparable and only act as one hypostasis. | | | The Oriental Orthodox churches are therefore often called " Monophysite " churches, although they reject this label, which is associated with Eutychian Monophysitism, preferring the term "non-Chalcedonian" or "Miaphysite" churches. |
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http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Oriental_Orthodox
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| | Orthodox Christian Felowship |
| | The Orthodox, therefore, make what may seem at first a surprising claim: they regard their Church as the Church which guards and teaches the true belief about God and which glorifies Him with right worship, that is, as nothing less than the Church of Christ on earth. | | | The Orthodox Church is thus a family of self-governing Churches. | | | Our subject will be those Christian who are termed not Oriental but Eastern Orthodox, that is to say, the Christian who are in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople; and so when we refer to the Orthodox Church, it is in the Eastern, not the Oriental, Orthodox that we have in view. |
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http://www.luc.edu/orgs/ocf/orthodoxy.html
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| | The Damascus Report |
| | Orthodox spirituality is profoundly marked by the theme of metanoia, a complete turning around to God in faith, hope and love. | | | It is this divine therapeutic model of salvation that the Orthodox Church evokes in all her teaching on repentance, conversion and return to God. | | | In the history of the modern ecumenical movement, Orthodox Christians have joined in prayer services with non-Orthodox on the basis that our prayer is for the sake of Christian unity, and that we are praying to the same Triune God. |
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http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/who/morges-07-e.html
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| | Dialogue with the Oriental Orthodox |
| | Regarding the church, the Oriental Orthodox affirm that the church is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, and Jesus Christ is the chief cornerstone. | | | The Oriental Orthodox churches understand priesthood to be one of the seven sacraments of the church. | | | Regarding mission, the Oriental Orthodox affirm that the church, as the living body of Christ, constantly called together and renewed by the Holy Spirit, worships the triune God on behalf of all God's creation. |
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http://www.warc.ch/dt/erl1/21.html
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| | Eastern Orthodox Forum - Monophysites |
| | Therefore, the Holy Synod of Antioch saw fit to translate the brotherly approachment relationship between the two Churches, the Antiochian Orthodox and the Syriac Orthodox for the edification of their faithful wherever they happen to be. | | | On second thought, all of this would entail faith in the Truth, the authority of the Church, the inspiration of the Fathers, the infallibility of the Âcumenical Synods, and the primacy of the Orthodox Faith. | | | Those attempts are nothing but a natural expression that the Orthodox Churches, and especially those within the Holy See of Antioch, are called to articulate the will of the Lord that all may be one, just as the Son is One with the Heavenly Father. |
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http://www.orthodoxforum.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=25
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| | Ecumenical Relations of the Syriac Orthodox Church |
| | The Syriac Orthodox Church has been a member of the World Council of Churches (WCC) since 1960, and is one of the founding members of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC). | | | The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch is in full communion with other Oriental Orthodox churches (also called Non-Chalcedonian Churches)—the Coptic, the Armenian, and the Ethiopian. | | | Among all Christian Churches, the Eastern Orthodox Churches are closer to the Oriental Churches in spirituality, doctrine, and in historical experience. |
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http://sor.cua.edu/Ecumenism
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| | God's Reign & Our Unity - Anglican-Reformed Report |
| | Both communions had their origin as distinct entities in the events of the Reformation, but both confess themselves part of the one catholic Church, even though there are important differences between them in the ways they understand their continuity with the pre-Reformation Western Church. | | | The feeling, in England, for example, that the Anglican form of worship and church order is "the religion of the English people', and in Scotland that the Presbyterian forms similarly embody the proper religion of the Scots is often deep and enduring. | | | The New Testament cannot be held to prescribe a three-fold ministry of bishops, priests and deacons, a Presbyterian or congregational form of government, or the primacy of the see of Rome. |
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http://www.warc.ch/dt/erl1/05.html
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| | A Catholic View of Orthodoxy by Aidan Nichols OP |
| | But only the Orthodox are, along with the Catholic Church, bearers of Holy Tradition - in the singular, with a capital 'T', that is, of the Gospel in its plenary organic transmission through the entirety of the life - credal, doxological, ethical - of Christ's Church. | | | What the Orthodox quite naturally and rightly object to is Uniatism as a method of detaching Orthodox dioceses and parishes from their mother churches on a principle of divide et impera. | | | Though certainly not ignoring the calls of missionary activity and practical charity, essential to the Gospel and the Gospel community as these are, the Orthodox lay their primary emphasis on the life of prayer as the absolutely necessary condition of all Christianity worth the name. |
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| | USCCB - (Office of Media Relations) - Guidelines Issued for Pastoral Care of Oriental Orthodox Students in Catholic ... |
| | The Oriental Orthodox Churches represented are the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church. | | | The Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Theological Consultation is sponsored jointly by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs and the Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches in the United States. | | | The Co-Chairmen of the Consultation are Bishop Howard Hubbard of Albany and Chorbishop John Meno of the Syrian Orthodox Church. |
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http://www.nccbuscc.org/comm/archives/1999/99-135.shtml
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| | Profile of Elenie Huszagh, Esq., (U.S.) National Council of Churches President 2002-2003 |
| | The Orthodox have been an integral part of that movement, including at the NCC, where today 11 of the 36 member communions are Orthodox (eight are Eastern; three, from Egypt and India, are termed "Oriental"); 24 are Protestant, and one is Anglican. | | | She cites the NCC’s intervention in 1983 on behalf of Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, who was then under house arrest when the government withdrew recognition of him as head of communion. | | | (The Very Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky of the Orthodox Church in America served in that post from 1990-1991.) She is, however, the first Orthodox layperson and the first Orthodox woman to become NCC president and one of only five laypersons to serve as president in the Council’s history. |
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http://www.ncccusa.org/news/huszagh.html
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| | Frequently Asked Questions About the Oriental Orthodox Faith |
| | Today the Oriental Orthodox faith is distinguished by their rites: The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch & Malankara Syrian Orthodox (the Syriac Orthodox Church in India), the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Ethiopian Tawehedo Orthodox Church, and the Eritrean Orthodox Church. | | | Until recently, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church was part of the administration of the Coptic Orthodox Church. | | | The Assyrian Orthodox Church is an older name (in the English language) for the Syriac Orthodox Church. |
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| | Independent episcopal churches |
| | We are "Orthodox" because we adhere to the "One True Faith of the early Apostolic Church of our Lord Jesus Christ" as proclaimed during the first thousand years of the Church and its first seven great Ecumenical Councils. | | | "The Western Orthodox Church in America is a Missionary Church of Orthodox Catholic Christians that seeks to bring the good news of Jesus to a world that is sick and dying; of sin, suffering and ignorance. | | | "The Orthodox Church of Canada is a canonical, autocephalous Metropolia in the lineage of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. |
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http://www.ecumenism.net/denom/independent.htm
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| | Archbishop - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | When a bishop becomes an archbishop, she or he is not in any sense being ordained nor otherwise receiving any sacrament ; by contrast (in the Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox communions) a person becoming a bishop is being ordained. | | | In the Greek Orthodox Church, archbishops outrank metropolitans, and have the same rights as Eastern Orthodox metropolitans. | | | In the Eastern churches (both Catholic and Orthodox) archbishops and metropolitans are distinct, although a metropolitan may be referred to as metropolitan archbishop. |
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| | The Christian Research Journal Encounters Orthodox Christianity |
| | While it is true that the ecclesiastical structures of the EOC, Oriental Orthodox Church, Church of the East, and Uniate Orthodox Churches are distinct from one another, this says nothing about the unity of the EOC. | | | Negrut first challenges the claim of the Orthodox Church to be universal and unified. | | | we Orthodox consider Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition as two sources of revelation of equal weight and authority, as two equivalent sources of dogma and of supernatural faith." Compare this with the Moscow Statement: "Any disjunction between Scripture and Tradition such as would treat them as two separate ‘sources of revelation’ must be rejected. |
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| | Eastern Church |
| | Although it agrees in faith with the Copts and Jacobites, it is not communion with them (a union arranged by a synod in 726 came to nothing) nor with any other Church in the world. | | | Other causes have led to the establishment of a few other independent Churches, so that now the great Orthodox communion consists of sixteen independent Churches, each of which (except that of the Bulgars) is recognized by, and in communion with, the others. | | | As they always bring their Church with them, it is a large and important community, second only to the Orthodox in size among Eastern Churches. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txw/eastern.htm
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| | ICCOU - The International Council for Catholic-Orthodox Unity |
| | Our hope is now in the people of God and their parishes, Catholic and Orthodox, who desire to pursue a dialogue in truth and love. | | | Our mission is to foster and accelerate the restoration of the full unity and communion of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church through dialogues, constructive debating leading to mutual understanding and true reconciliation. | | | In fact, it seems awefully clear that the quest for unity between Catholics and Orthodox is a very low priority. |
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| | Theological |
| | The United States Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Consultation was established in 1978, and is sponsored jointly by the BishopsÂ’ Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the USCCB and the Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches in America. | | | The members of the Consultation were particularly pleased to welcome Archbishop Mor Titus Yeldho Pathickal, of the Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in North America, who attended for the first time since his recent installation as metropolitan. | | | It will focus on developing closer relations among our churches, and on the position of the Catholic Church regarding proselytism among the Oriental Orthodox faithful. |
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http://www.syrianorthodoxchurch.org/news/theological.htm
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| | The Christian World |
| | Eastern Orthodox churches give special veneration to icons (stylized portraits of Christ or the Saints). | | | Eastern Christian worship services are long and elaborate, with chanted liturgy (usually in the language of the congregation; English is getting more common in the USA). | | | Oriental Orthodox (also called "Monophysite")-Armenia, Syria, Egypt (the Coptic Church), Ethiopia, India |
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http://www.humboldtlutherans.org/TCR-East.htm
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| | 50th Anniversary of the NCCCUSA - Celebration Daily |
| | Meeting at St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Cleveland, November 10, the Orthodox Caucus addressed issues such as how Orthodox participation in the Council might be stepped up and made more meaningful. | | | Members of Orthodox communions, racial-ethnic groups, sexual minorities, women and Indigenous people all met in caucus groups this week. | | | CLEVELAND—Caucus meetings put an accent on the diversity within the unity of the NCC community. |
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http://www.ncccusa.org/nccat50/daily/1112b.htm
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| | Faith Communions’ Observance of September 11 Anniversary |
| | This service was sponsored by the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern) and the Oriental Orthodox Churches. | | | Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was located opposite the World Trade Center. | | | Clergy of many of the Oriental Orthodox Churches participated. |
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| | Michael S. Allen: Student Affiliate |
| | Armenian Church of Atlanta, Norcross, GA Kidist Mariam Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, Decatur, GA Medhanealem Eritrean Orthodox Church, Lithonia, GA St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church, Roswell, GA St. Mary's Syrian Orthodox Church, Lilburn, GA Please write to us with suggestions about new books, articles, or sites to include, | | | The Coptic Church, for example, had no parishes before 1969; today it has over 180,000 members. | | | "Oriental" Orthodox Christianity: The Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Syrian, and Indian Churches in America |
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| | List of saints - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Note that the churches within the Anglican communion do not officially canonize saints, though a number of traditional saints are often given the title. | | | Book of Common Prayer of 1662, and the "Festivals" and "Lesser Festivals" from the Church of England 's Common Worship of 2000. | | | Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Communions, the numbers may be even higher, since there is no fixed process of " |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saints
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| | News Releases - 2002 |
| | We are sending you this letter on behalf of the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago. | | | The Rev. Deacon Aren Jebejian, St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Orthodox Church | | | The churches, synagogues and mosques represented around our table embrace nearly four million men, women and children. |
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http://www.archdiocese-chgo.org/news_releases/news_2002/news_120302.shtm
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| | United Methodist Reporter December 2002 |
| | I prayed with sisters and brothers of other Christian communions and with sisters and brothers of other faiths: Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists. | | | “A refreshing and stimulating presentation of basically orthodox Christian beliefs, this book is ‘must reading’ for every Christian yearning for a renewed and relevant church in the 21st century.” | | | At the vigil, I lit my candle and prayed for peace. |
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http://www.gbgm-umc.org/nillconf/umrdec02.htm
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| | ..:: One Lie To Rule Them All ::.. |
| | "Brothers and sisters, the watchword of the Holy Orthodox Church today is unity. | | | We are learning unity within our own house; we must pursue unity with all the children of God. | | | > The Pope Appeals For Full Unity Between Catholics and Orthodox ewtn |
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| | 50th Anniversary of the NCCCUSA - Daily Photo Gallery |
| | Mar Thoma—an ancient church with roots in South India—is one of the Oriental Orthodox communions that belongs to the NCC—a body that unites cultures as well as religious traditions. | | | Zacharias Mar Theophilus, bishop of the Mar Thoma diocese in the United States. |
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http://www.ncccusa.org/nccat50/photo2.htm
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| | List of saints |
| | Research has shown that we do not read a word letter by letter: | | | This list of local churches and religious organizations provides the location and phone number for each, the name of the senior pastor and a schedule of the main weekly day of worship. | | | Among the Eastern OrthodoxyEastern Orthodox and Oriental OrthodoxyOriental Orthodox Communions, the numbers may be even higher, since there is no fixed process of "canonization/" and each individual jurisdiction within the two Orthodox communions independently maintains parallel lists of saints that have only partial overlap. |
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http://www.infothis.com/find/List_of_saints
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| | Religious Alliance Opposes Executions (Chicago Sun-Times) |
| | The Very Rev. Dimitri Kantcavelos, chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Diocese, said that "in light of the recent failures of the judicial system" and the release of 13 Death Row prisoners who were found to be wrongly convicted of the capital crimes, "we really have reason to pause." | | | Therefore, it said, "The time has come to fundamentally challenge the use of capital punishment in our society's administration of justice." | | | The council, composed of leaders of Roman Catholic, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant and Jewish communions and institutions, applauded Gov. Ryan for invoking a temporary suspension of the death penalty in Illinois and for appointing a commission to study its administration. |
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http://www.jessejacksonjr.org/issues/i0727001493.html
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