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Albanian Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania is one of the Eastern Orthodox churches. It is very new. It was created in 1922 by the fathers of the Albanian Orthodoxy Fan Noli, Visarion Xhuvani, and others. The Albanian Orthodox Church is autocephalous, meaning its bishop does not have to answer before any superior ...
Julian. 11 May 2024. The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts of Oriental Orthodoxy as well as by the Amazigh people (also known as the Berbers).
Church history and Eastern Orthodox ecclesiology is an especially complex matter and making assumptions based off of a non-Orthodox source that the Ecumenical Patriarch is the “leader” of the whole Church and breaking communion with them means you’re no longer Eastern Orthodox only hurts Wikipedia’s reputation.
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Russian Orthodox Church is, for example, much younger than Church of Cyprus, but is more senior because Russian Church has the rank of patriarchy and the Cypriot church has the rank of archeparchy. We should rank the churches in the order of seniority or by the year established, but as it is written here in the article, it is not clear which of ...
However, in parishes of the Orthodox Church in America, the wearing of the headscarf is less common and is a matter of Christian liberty. Eastern Orthodox nuns wear a head covering called an apostolnik, which is worn at all times, and is the only part of the monastic habit which distinguishes them from Eastern Orthodox monks.
The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. [1] The doctrine of the Fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis, chapters 1–3. [1]
