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  1. 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.

  2. The Eastern Orthodox Church is decentralised, having no central authority, earthly head or a single bishop in a leadership role. Thus, the Eastern Orthodox use a synodical system canonically, which is significantly different from the hierarchical organisation of the Catholic Church that follows the doctrine of papal supremacy. [6]

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  4. Jan 1, 2024 · The Eastern Orthodox Church, characterized by its decentralized structure, comprises several autocephalous (self-governing) patriarchates and archdioceses. The foremost among these is the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, historically regarded as ‘first among equals’ in the Orthodox hierarchy. This symbolic primacy, stemming from ...

  5. Eastern Orthodoxy - Byzantine, Schism, Reformation: At the beginning of the 2nd millennium of Christian history, the church of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire, was at the peak of its world influence and power. Neither Rome, which had become a provincial town and its church an instrument in the hands of political interests, nor Europe under the Carolingian and ...

  6. Chu Trang ( chữ Hán giản thể: 周庄; bính âm: Zhōuzhuāng) là một thị trấn thuộc địa cấp thị Côn Sơn, Cộng hoà Nhân dân Trung Hoa. Chu Trang cách Tô Châu 30 km về phía đông nam. Thị trấn này nổi tiếng với cảnh phố xá xen lẫn với phố cổ có 900 năm lịch sử với các con ...

  7. Eastern Orthodoxy - Faith, Traditions, Unity: The schism between the Greek and Latin churches coincided chronologically with a surge of Christian missionary activity in northern and eastern Europe. Both sides contributed to the resultant expansion of Christianity but used different methods. The West imposed a Latin liturgy on the new converts and thus made Latin the only vehicle of Christian ...

  8. Eastern Orthodoxy, officially Orthodox Catholic Church, One of the three major branches of Christianity. Its adherents live mostly in Greece, Russia, the Balkans, Ukraine, and the Middle East, with a large following in North America and Australia. The titular head of Eastern Orthodoxy is the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople (Istanbul ...