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To make clear and explicit to all something in both MJ's and Rosie's responses, the Russian Orthodox Church is an Eastern Orthodox Church, just like the Greek Orthodox Church.
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- What Is The Eastern Orthodox Church?
- Eastern Or Greek Orthodox?
- How Many Different Types of Orthodox Churches Are Out there?
- Sounds Like A Federation of Nationalistic Churches…
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The word Orthodox is a combination of two Greek words orthos and doxa. Orthos means “straight” or “correct.” Doxa means “glory,” “worship,” and “doctrine.” So, the word Orthodox means both “proper worship” and “correct doctrine.” Eastern Orthodoxy (sometimes simply called the Orthodox Church) has an organic and continuous 2,000-year historyspanning...
Historically, the term “Greek Orthodox” has been used to describe all Eastern Orthodox Churches in general. In these cases, “Greek” referred to the heritage of the Byzantine Empire. Theologians utilized the Greek language in early writings, and Greek was spoken widely throughout the Empire. Over the next several centuries, most parts of the liturgy...
Most Orthodox churches today fall into either Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy. In addition to these, some other churches exist that have no affiliation, mostly in the West. *Only the Russian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Polish, the Czech-Slovak churches recognize the Orthodox Church in America as autocephalous. So, depending on which archdiocese y...
On the contrary! Think of it this way: the Orthodox Church is structured as One Church. However, that Church has several “jurisdictions,” which were established and expanded by missionaries and by the immigrant communities who came to America. The doctrine and worship of each jurisdiction and parish is the same. But in some, languages other than En...
The Eastern Orthodox Church is a lot simpler than people believe when first encountering her. She is an incredibly beautiful, diverse family of followers of Jesus Christ, who all worship according to local customs and tradition, and collectively follow the doctrine set forth by the Fathers in the days of the ancient Church. We are not all Greeks, n...
The Eastern Orthodox Church is the primary religious denomination in Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, Belarus, Serbia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, North Macedonia, Cyprus and Montenegro. Roughly half of Eastern Orthodox Christians live in the post Eastern Bloc countries, mostly in Russia.
St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in McKinney Texas (20 miles N of Dallas) Here is wealth of information about Orthodoxy and Orthodox Church Life. If you are looking for spiritual things, we have Sunday and Feast day sermons, daily meditations on the Scriptures, lives of the saints, and articles about Great Lent, Pascha (Easter), Pentecost ...
Orthodox are all the same. I am Antiochian Orthodox but we have Russians, Greeks, Romanians, and Serbs that also come to our church. The Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox are not in communion but their beliefs and liturgy are nearly the same.
- This kinda falls into general reference territory. There are two major groups of "Orthodox" churches. The Eastern Orthodox Church is one large...
- Officially all the Eastern Orthodox Churches share "one Lord, one faith, one baptism," and this is manifested by intercommunion among, say, the see...
- The churches your speaking about are all the same in faith and are all Eastern Orthodox. The reason they have different names is because of the et...
- Actually, the Coptic Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox, there's also the Ethiopians, the Malankar (I think), and others who escape me at this...
- Eastern Orthodox churches all share the same religious dogma. Where they vary is language and with regard to some rituals and customs. For example,...
- The first answer was awsome. Very clear and informative. One exception is that Rome & some of the OE Churches have returned to limited communion. C...
Oct 15, 2022 · Orthodoxy comprises a range of autonomous churches, the Russian and Greek being the most prominent. During the first millennium of the church, the Latin West and the predominantly Greek-speaking East drifted apart linguistically, culturally, and theologically.
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