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Ecumenism, from the Greek word " oikoumene ", meaning "the whole inhabited world" (cf. Acts 17.6; Mt 24.14; Heb 2.5), is the promotion of cooperation and unity among Christians. The Union of Christendom is a traditional Catholic view of ecumenism; the view is that every non-Catholic Christian ecclesial community is destined to return to the ...
1 2 3. The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed.
Based on the New Statute of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania (Articles 17, 18), the Holy Synod decided with unanimous votes as Bishop of Amantias, Archimandrite Nathanail Lavrioti and as Bishop of Bylis ], archimandrite Asti Bakallbashi. These auxiliary bishops of the Archbishop are also titular members with full rights in the Holy ...
This church numbers roughly 150,000 faithful in 31 congregations and is the largest Eastern Orthodox church in Estonia. The primate of the church was Cornelius (Jakobs), Metropolitan of Tallinn and All Estonia, from 1992 to his death in 2018. Since 2018 the head of this church is Metropolitan Eugene (Reshetnikov).
Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia Inc. Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Archangels Michael & Gabriel, Adelaide SA. Greek Orthodox Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos, Croydon SA. Greek Orthodox Church of Sts Constantine & Helen, Goodwood SA. Greek Orthodox Chapel of Sts Cosmas & Damianos, Ridleyton SA.
Married Eastern Orthodox priest from Jerusalem with his family (three generations), circa 1893. Through the sacrament of holy orders, an ordination to priesthood is performed by the bishop. But this requires the consent of the whole people of God, so at a point in the service, the congregation acclaim the ordination by shouting " Axios !"
Emanation in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Emanation (literally "dripping") is a belief, found in Neoplatonism, that the cause of certain beings or states of being consists of an overflow from the essence of God or other higher spiritual beings, as opposed to a special act [vague] of creation. This overflow is usually conceived in a non-temporal ...
