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5 days ago · Filioque ( / ˌfɪliˈoʊkwi, - kweɪ / FIL-ee-OH-kwee, -kway; Ecclesiastical Latin: [filiˈokwe] ), a Latin term meaning "and from the Son," was added to the original Nicene Creed, and has been the subject of great controversy between Eastern and Western Christianity. The term refers to the Son, Jesus Christ, with the Father, as the one ...
5 days ago · Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church: Head: Pope Tawadros II: Region: Egypt, Libya, Sudan, South Sudan, Middle East, and diaspora: Language: Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Dialectal Arabic, Tamazight (minority) Liturgy: Coptic Rite: Headquarters: Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Cairo, Egypt: Founder: St. Mark the Evangelist (Traditional ...
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Apr 11, 2024 · Origen (born c. 185, probably Alexandria, Egypt—died c. 254, Tyre, Phoenicia [now Ṣūr, Lebanon]) was the most important theologian and biblical scholar of the early Greek church. His greatest work is the Hexapla, which is a synopsis of six versions of the Old Testament.
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5 days ago · The Library of Alexandria was not the first library of its kind. A long tradition of libraries existed in both Greece and in the ancient Near East. The earliest recorded archive of written materials comes from the ancient Sumerian city-state of Uruk in around 3400 BC, when writing had only just begun to develop.
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5 days ago · The Croatian Rite, based primarily in Croatia with a significant population in the United States, reunited with Rome in 1611 and employs Old Slavonic as a liturgical language. The Greek Rite, which is centered in Greece and Turkey with congregations also in Asia Minor and Europe, reunited with Rome in 1829 and uses the Greek language in the ...
Apr 2, 2024 · Philo Judaeus (born 15–10 bce, Alexandria—died 45–50 ce, Alexandria) was a Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher, the most important representative of Hellenistic Judaism. His writings provide the clearest view of this development of Judaism in the Diaspora.
Apr 11, 2024 · A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church. For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one ...
