Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church is a communion comprising the collective body of sixteen separate autocephalous hierarchical churches that recognize each other as "canonical" Orthodox Christian churches. The head of the communion is the Patriarch of Constantinople, who is also head of one of the sixteen churches. The sixteen organizations are in full communion with each other, so any priest of any of those churches may lawfully minister to any member of any of them, and no member of any is excluded from any form of worship in any of the others. Despite the fact that, like the Roman Catholic church, they are "closed communion" churches, i.e. with rare exceptions excluding non-members from receiving the Eucharist, nonetheless they admit each other's members to that sacrament. Friction among them is over matters of church politics rather than doctrine.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church claims to be the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

All the disagreements among persons of differing religious beliefs beget strange nomenclature, and accordingly the so-called Western Orthodox Church is a part of the Eastern Orthodox Church as that term is defined here.

Autocephalous Churches

Church of Constantinople
Church of Alexandria
Church of Antioch
Church of Jerusalem
Orthodox Church of Macedonia
Church of Russia
Church of Georgia
Church of Serbia
Church of Romania
Church of Bulgaria
Church of Cyprus
Church of Greece
Church of Poland
Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia
Orthodox Church in America
Church of Albania

Autonomous Churches

Church of Sinai
Church of Finland
Church of Japan
Church of Ukraine

External link

http://www.oca.org/pages/orth_chri/Orthodox-Churches/

Crosswords: Eastern Orthodox Church

English words defined with "Eastern Orthodox Church": Byzantine ♦ canonisation, canonization, Constantinople ♦ Eastern Orthodox ♦ Greek Church, Greek Orthodox, Greek Orthodox Church ♦ Istanbul ♦ Orthodox ♦ Russian Orthodox ♦ Stamboul, Stambul, starets. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Eastern Orthodox Church": Orthodox Sunday. (references)

Commercial Usage: Eastern Orthodox Church

Domain	Title
Books	A dictionary of the Eastern Orthodox Church (reference) Hymnology of the Eastern Orthodox Church (reference) The Question of Union: A Forthright Discussion of the Possibility of Union of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholicism (reference) The Sacrament of Matrimony According to the Doctrine and Ritual of the Eastern Orthodox Church (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Eastern Orthodox Church

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Bulgaria	The Government provides financial support for the Eastern Orthodox Church, as well as for several other religious communities perceived as holding historic places in society, such as the Muslim, Roman Catholic, and Jewish faiths, which also are considered "traditional." These groups benefit from a relatively high degree of governmental and public tolerance. (references)
	Greece	The Constitution establishes the Eastern Orthodox Church of Christ (Greek Orthodoxy) as the "prevailing" religion, but also provides for the right of all citizens to practice the religion of their choice; however, while the Government generally respects this right, at times non-Orthodox groups face administrative obstacles or legal restrictions on religious practice. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eastern Orthodox Church

Modern Translations: Eastern Orthodox Church

Language		Translations for "eastern orthodox church"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		easternay orthodoxay urchchay.(various references)

Portuguese		hemisfério oriental. (various references)

Spanish		iglesia ortodoxa oriental. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Eastern Orthodox Church

Alternative Orthography: Eastern Orthodox Church

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 61 73 74 65 72 6E 4F 72 74 68 6F 64 6F 78 43 68 75 72 63 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101110 00100000 01001111 01110010 01110100 01101000 01101111 01100100 01101111 01111000 00100000 01000011 01101000 01110101 01110010 01100011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#110 &#32 &#79 &#114 &#116 &#104 &#111 &#100 &#111 &#120 &#32 &#67 &#104 &#117 &#114 &#99 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0061 0073 0074 0065 0072 006E 004F 0072 0074 0068 006F 0064 006F 0078 0043 0068 0075 0072 0063 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
eastern orthodox church	31
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Felis concolor cougar, Gallirallus australis hectori, Larix americana, Larix laricina, Puma concolor cougar, Sisymbrium columnae Jacq., Sisymbrium orientale Torn.. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Eastern Orthodox Church

Definition: Eastern Orthodox Church