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2 giorni fa · The history of the Eastern Orthodox Church is the formation, events, and transformation of the Eastern Orthodox Church through time. According to the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church is traced back to Jesus Christ and the Apostles.
- East–West Schism
The East–West Schism, also known as the Great Schism or the...
- East–West Schism
10 mag 2024 · Recent News. Eastern Orthodoxy, one of the three major doctrinal and jurisdictional groups of Christianity. It is characterized by its continuity with the apostolic church, its liturgy, and its territorial churches. Its adherents live mainly in the Balkans, the Middle East, and former Soviet countries.
- John Meyendorff
2 giorni fa · Because of its historical location as the capital of the former Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and its role as the mother church of most modern Orthodox churches, Constantinople holds a special place of honor within Orthodoxy and serves as the seat for the Ecumenical Patriarch, who enjoys the status of primus inter pares (first ...
- ~5,000 (Turkey), ~3,800,000 (Greece), ~1,500,000 (in diaspora), =5,305,000 (total)
- St. Andrew the Apostle
4 mag 2024 · Russian Orthodox Church, one of the largest autocephalous, or ecclesiastically independent, Eastern Orthodox churches in the world. Its membership is estimated at more than 90 million. For more on Orthodox beliefs and practices, see Eastern Orthodoxy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Orthodox believers are called to pursue deification, or divine qualities, according to a Russian Orthodox leader. The most powerful way to do this, he says, is through the Eurcharist. Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev spoke with EWTN about the importance of the Eucharist at the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, on Sept. 6.
2 mag 2024 · The East-West Schism, also known as the Great Schism of 1054, marked the definitive break in communion between the Catholic Church in the West and the Eastern Orthodox Church. The schism was the culmination of long-standing theological, political, and cultural disagreements between the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West.
