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14 hours ago · The Armenian Apostolic Church (Armenian: Հայ Առաքելական Եկեղեցի, romanized: Hay Aṙak'elakan Yekeghetsi) is the national church of Armenia. Part of Oriental Orthodoxy, it is one of the most ancient Christian institutions.
2 days ago · The Coptic Orthodox Church (Coptic: Ϯⲉⲕ̀ⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ ⲛ̀ⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ⲛ̀ⲟⲣⲑⲟⲇⲟⲝⲟⲥ, romanized: Ti-eklisia en-remenkimi en-orthodhoxos, lit. 'the Egyptian Orthodox Church'), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt.
3 days ago · Oriental Orthodox Christianity displays rich variation. Each national church is autocephalous (though the Coptic pope enjoys spiritual primacy in the Ethiopian and Eritrean churches). Each church also has its own structure, usually with a single head (though the Armenian church has two catholicoses ), its own liturgy, and other distinctive ...
1 day ago · The Syro-Malabar Church is primarily based in India; with five metropolitan archeparchies and ten suffragan eparchies in Kerala, there are 17 eparchies in other parts of India, and four eparchies outside India.
4 days ago · Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, greets the newly elected Bulgarian Patriarch Daniil after his enthronement ceremony at...
3 days ago · Christianity - Eastern, Western, Theology: The two main forms of the relationship between church and state that have been predominant and decisive through the centuries and in which the structural difference between the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy becomes most evident can best be explained by comparing the views of two great ...
3 days ago · When in 988 Grand Prince Vladimir proclaimed Orthodox Christianity to be Kiev’s state religion, this was a choice for Byzantine civilization, and for accepting the East Roman imperial model of relations between the ruler and the Church hierarchy; but with the Mongol conquest and the ensuing Golden Horde period, the Oriental vector in Russia ...
