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	Orthodox Eastern Church - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ORTHODOX EASTERN CHURCH [Orthodox Eastern Church] community of Christian churches whose chief strength is in the Middle East and E Europe.
		Orthodox acceptance of the seven councils resulted in the exclusion from their communion, on grounds of heresy, of the Nestorian, Jacobite, Coptic, and Armenian churches; it also involves holding a sacramental doctrine of grace ex opere operato (see grace) and of veneration of the Virgin Mary, two points differentiating the Orthodox from Protestants.
		The number of Orthodox churches recognizing one another as such is indefinite because of the fluid state of the relations of Orthodox bishops in countries to which communicants have emigrated.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-orthodox.html (1943 words)

	Albanian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The church suffered during the Second World War, and in the communist period that followed, especially after 1967 when Albania was declared an atheist state, and no public or private expression of religion was allowed.
		The church greatly suffered during the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha as all churches were placed under government control and land originally held by religious institutions were taken by the state.
		The Ecumenical Patriarch and the Greek government appointed Professor Anastasios Yannoulatos to be the Patriarchal Exarch for the Albanian Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albanian_Orthodox_Church (736 words)

	Orthodox Eastern Church. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Orthodox patriarchates of Alexandria and Antioch are minority churches (for the corresponding separated churches, see Copts; Jacobite Church), as is the patriarchate of Jerusalem.
		The language of the ritual is Church Slavonic.
		In 1962 several observers from the Orthodox churches attended the Second Vatican Council, convened by Pope John XXIII.
	www.bartleby.com /65/or/Orthodox.html (1768 words)

	Fan NOLI
		Noli was born in the village of Ibrik Tepe (Alb.
		Tension reached its climax in 1907 when a Greek Orthodox priest refused to officiate at the burial of an Albanian in Hudson, Massachusetts on the grounds that, as a nationalist, the deceased was automatically excommunicated.
		He was now both head of the Orthodox Church in Albania and leader of a liberal political party, the main opposition to the conservative forces of Ahmet Zogu (1895-1961), who were supported primarily by the feudal landowners and the middle class.
	www.albanianliterature.com /authors2/AA2-12.html (2399 words)

	What is the Orthodox Church?
		Orthodox parishes tend to be identified and organized according to the language in which services are celebrated and the national identity of parishioners.
		Presently the Orthodox are engaged in bilateral and other "ecumenical" dialogues with the Roman Catholic Church and various Protestant confessions, not to seek some kind of compromise in doctrine and polity, but with the hope of leading those bodies back to confession and celebration of the ancient and traditional Apostolic Faith.
		The beauty and richness of Orthodox liturgical services serve to draw the faithful into a living experience of the triune God, to unite them in faith and love with one another and with the saints of all ages, and to bless their lives with a profound sense of God's merciful, compassionate presence in their midst.
	www.saintignatiuschurch.org /orthodoxchurch.html (1251 words)

	Orthodox Europe :: Albania
		Since 1991 the Albanian Archdiocese has rebuilt 83 new churches from their foundations, 5 monasteries and 72 churches/monuments have been restored, and more than 140 churches have been repaired.
		In the past ten years 125 new clergy, all Albanian citizens, have graduated from the Resurrection of Christ Theological Academy, in addition to the three Orthodox priests who survive from the pre-1990 period.
		Orthodox catechism classes are available to adults and children in every major city and many villages.
	www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk /oealbani.htm (527 words)

	ATA News from Albania, 96-08-06
		Albanian forces seriously valuated this new mission of the Albanian army and with the German forces were intensively and professionally prepared.
		The committee for the defence of autocephaly of the Albanian Orthodox Church on August 1st launched a protest to Istanbul Oecumenical Patriarchate Fanari, to Patriarch Bartholomew, against the nomination of three Greek bishops as metropolitans of Gjirokastra, Vlora and Korca.
		The Istanbul Patriarchate recognised the autocephaly of the Albanian Orthodox Church in 1936.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1996/96-08-06.ata.html (1635 words)

	History part III
		During the dictatorship of General Pangalos, in 1927, the statutes regarding the Church were again modified with the result that the Greek Orthodox Church was again government controlled with the highest authority of the Church a permanent Holy Synod.
		Despite the operations of a conflicting church hierarchy, whose followers sympathized with the Royalist political faction in contrast to the sympathies of the Patriarchal Church for the Venizelists, the Greek Church grew and prospered.
		The Communist government of Russia, culminating with the deposing of the Metropolitan in 1927, halted the progress of the Orthodox church in the Ukraine.
	holytrinity-la.org /engl/pages/general/hist3.html (6569 words)

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		Orthodox Church elected a monk of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch as Bishop.
		The Albanian Orthodox Church was recognized by Constantinople as late as April 12, 1937.
		Archbishop Joachim Souris, with the assistance of Archbishop Stanislaus DeWitow of the Holy Orthodox Church in America, on October 3, 1964 at the Cathedral Church of the Holy Resurrection in the Bronx, New York, consecrated Archbishop Metropolitan Walter Propheta for the American Orthodox Catholic Church.
	www.mrtrid.com /succession.html (1672 words)

	Welcome to Frosina.org :: An Albanian Immigrant and Cultural Resource
		On May 27, 1900 Drita (Albanian newspaper in Romania) had as the first point in its program the separation of the Albanian church from the Greek Patriarchate and the introduction of the Albanian language in its liturgy.
		The Albanian Orthodox Church of America, which was established with the ordination of Fan S. Noli as priest was authorized to conduct services in Albanian, was a missionary church under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church.
		The congress, while irregular in composition, declared the Albanian Orthodox church to be autocephalous and ruled that Albanian instead of Greek should be used in the liturgy.
	www.frosina.org /about/infobits.asp?id=148 (726 words)

	Albanian Resurrection - The Story of Archbishop Anastasios & the Rebirth of the Albanian Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was the desire to serve the church as a missionary that finally brought him to ordination as a priest.
		His eventual recovery from malaria made it possible in 1981 to return to East Africa, arriving when the Orthodox Church in Kenya was in a state of division and severe crisis.
		The one church in Tirana that was beginning to serve as a place of public worship had been a gymnasium since 1967.
	www.touchstonemag.com /docs/issues/14.6docs/14-6pg26.html (4291 words)

	Saint Nicholas Albanian Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, having also studied at St. Vladimir's Seminary and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Theological School and is chaplain of Hospice in Lynn, MA, an agency which tends to the needs of the terminally ill and their families.
		An appeal was made that all parishes comply with the Orthodox Church in America's policies on sexual misconduct/improprieties.
		Elections: A new procedure for nominating diocesan officers was instituted for the first time this year, allowing for candidates to be proposed by parishes in advance of the assembly.
	www.stnicholasalbanian.org /book/view/224 (1472 words)

	News
		Church of the Holy Family is also the United Nations Parish for the Catholic Diplomats.
		Since Orthodox Church in America was granted canonical autocephaly in 1970 by the Moscow Patriarchate generally bishop of Russian Orthodox Church does not officially participate in SCOBA activities, however in recent years the Administrator of Patriarchal Parishes was invited for the main events in respect of the role Russian Orthodox Church.
		The tour was sponsored by the Orthodox Christian Women of Metro-Detroit, a group started in 1993 at St. Innocent Church by a member of the parish, with Fr.
	www.stmichaelroc.org /news.htm (1570 words)

	ATA News from Albania, 96-08-01
		The Albanian Committee for the Defence of the Albanian Orthodox Autocephalous Church has issued a protest to the oecumenical Patriarchy of Istanbul, Fanari, and to patriarch Bartholomew against the appointment by the patriarchy of three Greek bishops as metropolitans of Gjirokastra, Vlora and Korca.
		The Patriarchy, fully violating the status of the Albanian Orthodox Autocephalous Church of 1929, an autocephaly recognised in 1936, consecrated a few days ago, without the approval of the Albanian Church and State, three Greek bishops for three dioceses in Albania.
		The Albanian Orthodox Autocephalous Church is called by the entire Albanian people 'The National Autocephalous Church of Albania'.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1996/96-08-01.ata.html (2773 words)

	Religious Freedom Page
		The Albanian Orthodox Church split from the Greek Orthodox Church early in the century, and adherents strongly identify with the national church as distinct from the Greek Church.
		The current archbishop is a Greek citizen, even though the Albanian Orthodox Church's 1929 statute states that all its archbishops must be of Albanian heritage, because there are no Albanian clerics qualified for this position.
		In 1967 the Communists banned all religious practices and expropriated the property of the established Islamic, Orthodox, and Catholic churches.
	religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu /nationprofiles/Albania/status.html (327 words)

	Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Several Christian Churches or church bodies are commonly referred to as "Orthodox".
		The Church of Slovakia and the Czech Lands
		It is also used by some church bodies associated with the Old Catholic Church, Continuing Anglican Movement, and Liberal Catholic Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orthodox_Church (216 words)

	Eastern Orthodox Church \| Orthodox Church \| Orthodox Catholic Church \| Eastern Orthodox \| Questia.com Online Library
		...THE EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH ERNST BENZ was born in Germany...important theological school of the Eastern Orthodox Church -- and is a regular member of...in the spring of...
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		Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley ("A New Wave of Immigration and the Arrival of Eastern Orthodox Churches" begins on p.
	www.questia.com /library/religion/eastern-orthodox-church.jsp (614 words)

	ST. INNOCENT CHURCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Innocent of Irkutsk Orthodox Church is a small, English-speaking, multi-ethnic and multi-racial, new-calendar parish under the Patriarchate of Moscow, comprised of families and single people, spanning 4 generations, and including many young children.
		Recent Russian-Ukrainian-Belarus immigrants are also discovering that St. Innocent Church makes them feel welcome and at home, and they appreciate the unpretentious and prayerful atmosphere of Divine Services, the fuller liturgical life, the family atmosphere of the parish community, and the feeding of their social as well as spiritual needs.
		Recently Canonized Orthodox Saints: Their Lives and Icons, be written and published, with each saint's life and photos of the icons.
	www.firebirdvideos.com /stinnocentchurch.htm (4457 words)

	ST NICHOLAS ORTHODOX CHURCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nicholas Orthodox Church is a parish of the Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America.
		Our aim is to be an Orthodox Church open to all people at all times-- in keeping with the Lord's own commandments.
		We are Orthodox-- unchanging in faith, yet ever a living tradition-- one for all people in every time and place.
	www.stnicholasma.org (289 words)

	Admin Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Boston Church Directory lists the Christian churches located within the city limits of Boston and Cambridge.
		It is our intent that the Directory be used for developing relationships between members of Boston's Christian community; referrals; finding a church home; research in church planting; and other scholarly, relational or spiritual purposes.
		Click here for additional information about churches in Boston and the Boston Church Directory.
	www.egc.org /churches (194 words)

	Fan Noli
		Fan Noli, also known as Theophan Stylian Noli, was not only an outstanding leader of the Albanian-American community, but also a pre-eminent and multi-talented figure of Albanian literature, culture, religious life and politics.
		(Albanian - what was it, what is it and what will become of it?
		With Vatra funds collected under Noli’s direction, Albanian-American delegates were sent to Paris, London and Washington to promote international recognition of Albanian independence.
	www.geocities.com /spiritofalbania/noli.htm (2425 words)

	Catholic World News : Albanian Orthodox Ask For End To Church Attacks
		TIRANA, Albania (CWNews.com) - The Albanian Orthodox Church on Tuesday called for an end to attacks on its churches in the mainly Muslim country to avoid a spill over of ethnic and religious tensions from its neighbors, notably Serbia and Kosovo.
		"We raise our voice not only to defend our churches and monasteries but also religious harmony and the peaceful coexistence characteristic to our country," the statement added.
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	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=10773 (121 words)

	Albanian Diocese of America
		Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
		Archepiscopate of the Russian Orthodox Churches of Western Europe
		Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Czech Repubblic and Slovakia
	atlasofchurch.altervista.org /vari/aordine.htm (205 words)

	Albanian Cookbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		f you want to understand Albanian cooking, you have to understand the country's customs and traditions.
		, a fund-raising effort of the Women's Guild of St. Mary's Assumption Albanian Orthodox Church in Worcester, MA.
		Click here to hear a sample of Albanian Music!!
	www.albaniancookbook.com /index.html (80 words)

	Touchstone Archives: Albanian Resurrection
		“Albanian Resurrection” first appeared in the July/August, 2001 issue of Touchstone.
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	www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=14-06-026-f (4361 words)

	ALBANIAN ORTHODOX DIOCESE
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	www.goarch.org /en/otherpatriarchal/alb.asp (46 words)

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