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	Orthodox Europe :: Czechia
		The Orthodox Church in Bohemia and Moravia was forbidden to operate and its churches and chapels closed.
		Probably the finest theological mind the Russian Church produced in the twentieth century, he was the leading advocate of the restoration of the freedom of the Russian Church and the Patriarchate, after the decadent period instituted by Peter I. After the 1918 Council he was imprisoned in a Uniat monastery.
		Hus was burnt at the stake by the Catholic Church.
	www.orthodoxengland.btinternet.co.uk /oeczech.htm (3259 words)

	macedonian orthodox church - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The Macedonian Orthodox Church is a body of Eastern Orthodox Christians faithful residing in the Republic of Macedonia or having migrated from it.
		The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church agreed with the decisions of the Macedonian Clergy and Laity Assembly in the resolution AS.
		At the formal session in the Ohrid church of St. Clement, the Holy Synod proclaimed the Macedonian Orthodox Church as autocephalous.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Macedonian-Orthodox-Church (1404 words)

	Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Almost all of the members of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church were 20th century converts from Roman Catholicism or Eastern Rite Catholicism (Uniates).
		The conversions and the Church itself was an attempt to return to Slavic roots and to the teachings of the Saints Cyril and Methodius who first converted Moravia in 863.
		The faithful of the then Czechoslovak Orthodox Church were Czechoslovak patriots as well as pan-Slavs and their ranks quickly grew from almost no Eastern Orthodox faithful to 145,000 by the 1931 census (of that some 120,000 Ruthenes in Carpatho-Ukraine).
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/c/cz/czech_and_slovak_orthodox_church.html (283 words)

	Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The conversions and the formation of the Church itself were an attempt to return to Slavic roots and to the teachings of the Saints Cyril and Methodius who first converted Moravia in 863.
		The faithful of the then Czechoslovak Orthodox Church were Czechoslovak patriots as well as pan-Slavs, and their ranks quickly grew from almost no Eastern Orthodox faithful to 145,000 by the 1931 census (including some 120,000 Ruthenes in Carpatho-Ukraine).
		This involvement caused harsh reprisals for Eastern Orthodox faithful in German-held Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Czech_and_Slovak_Orthodox_Church (343 words)

	Bohemia Weddings - Church Ceremonies
		The Church of St. Nicholas is one of the oldest churches in the Old Town area of Prague.
		The church is one of the oldest ones in Prague.
		From 1934 to 1935 the church was adapted for liturgical purposes of the Orthodox Church and on 29th September 1935 it was dedicated to Sts.
	www.bohemiaweddings.com /services/Church-ceremonies.phtml (1165 words)

	National church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sometimes the head of state is considered the ceremonial head of the national church, while at the same time not endorsing itself as the state religion.
		The term should not be confused with established church (state church): a national church differs to a state church since a national church does not necessarily need to be officially endorsed by the state, and even in some cases is persecuted by the government (as were the Orthodox churches during the communist regimes).
		Israel/Palestine - Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_church (550 words)

	History of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
		The Bulgarian diocese was subordinated to the Constantinople Patriarchate.
		During this hard time the Church proved to be the staunchest defender of the faith of the ancestors, the protector of the national spirit and the propagator or patriotism.
		All Orthodox Churches were informed about this decision and invited to send their representative for the ceremonies of enthronement of the newly-elected Patriarch.
	bulch.tripod.com /boc/historyen.htm (4020 words)

	Ryszard Brykowski - Wooden Orthodox Church Architecture of the Lemko People in Poland, Slovakia and Carpathian Rus'
		The basic part of the church is crowned by spherical, magnificent apparent ave-bell turrets, the inside of the church is encircled by two identical cornices beneath the eaves and above the windows.
		Other differences in the shaping of the two types of church architecture are perceptible differences in the general proportions of buildings and the absence of surrounding roofing supported by protruding ceiling beams in Lemko orthodox churches.
		In the orthodox church at Swiatkowa Wielka, apart from the dark-blue-red arrangement referred to, the cornices are also painted in other combinations, e.g., red-dark blue-green, or green-dark blue-green.
	www.lemko.org /lih/rbrykowski.html (3717 words)

	Saint Gorazd II - DiscussAnything.com -
		The Czechoslovak Church created a new saint for the first time in September 1987 when it canonized Bishop Gorazd because of the central role he played in the formation of the Orthodox Church in that country and his martyrdom for the faith.
		On 4th September 1942 Bishop Gorazd, Vaclav Èikl, the senior of the cathedral church, Dr Vladimír Petøek, the priest, and Jan Sonnevend, the chair of the board of elders, were shot dead.
		In 1945 the life of the decimated Czech Orthodox Church’s eparchy was renewed in the liberated Czechoslovakia.
	www.discussanything.com /forums/showthread.php?t=56163 (1159 words)

	Orthodox Unity News - European Inter-Orthodox meeting
		The Church herself should be more open in a way to help the youth to understand the Orthodox Christian life, for instance by arranging a cathechetical material, perhaps in a form of leaflets, in different European languages.
		By `Inter Orthodox Dialogue' I mean the Dialogue between the Eastern Orthodox and the so-called Oriental Orthodox (Coptic, Ethiopian, Syrian Orthodox and Armenian).
		The Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches' (Geneva 1998), with a Russian translation in 2001.
	www.orthodoxunity.org /news07.html (3734 words)

	Lutheran Church in Slovakia :: News
		News from the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia
		The opera is an ecumenical project, with actors drawn from the Orthodox, Roman and Greek Catholic churches in the Slovak Republic, and from the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Slovak Republic (ECAC-SR).
		The church currently operates 15 schools (kindergardens, elementary schools and high schools) which are well-known for high educational standards as well as quality German and English language education that is made possible thanks to the teachers from partner Lutheran churches abroad.
	www.ecav.sk /intl/english/news.htm (11211 words)

	Lutheran Church in Slovakia :: News
		The Ecumenical Council of Churches in the Slovak Republic
		The Ecumenical Council of Churches in the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as the ECCSR) is a fellowship of the churches, which profess the Lord Jesus Christ as a Savior and Head of Church, and see their common religious ground in the Holy Scriptures and ecumenical confessions (Apostolic, Nicean, and Athanasian).
		At the end of 2002, the churches in Slovakia were honored by an address of the Joint Committee of the Papal Board for Abetment of the Unity of Christians and the World Council of Churches to prepare the topic and elaborate its contents for the Week of Prayers for the Unity of Christians in 2005.
	www.ecav.sk /intl/english/ecumenism.htm (1697 words)

	The Rusyns - Rusyn
		The church’s fate was closely tied to developments in Poland, where that country’s Catholic rulers were becoming increasingly alarmed at the rapid spread of Protestantism within their realm.
		Over the course of the next century the Orthodox Church was banned and all Carpatho-Rusyns became officially Uniate or, as they came to be known after the 1770s, Greek Catholic.
		Unlike the Orthodox, the Uniate/Greek Catholics were recognized as a Habsburg state church, and in 1771 they received their own independent *Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo.
	www.rusyn.org /rusyns-history.html (5559 words)

	Slovakia - church and country profile (Europe Desk)
		The relations between church and state in Slovakia are generally positive, and have strengthened in the recent period, according to church leaders.
		According to the churches, EU enlargement is a challenge for the internal integration of people and churches in Slovakia, and requires churches to accept their common responsibility for the service of the gospel in today’s world.
		Close cooperation between ECCSR and Roman Catholic churches was developed for the study of the Charta Oecumenica, the document produced jointly by the Conference of European Churches and the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE).
	www.wcc-coe.org /wcc/europe/profile-slovakia.html (1939 words)

	THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE CZECH LANDS
		The earliest history of the Orthodox Church on the territory of the Czech Republic is connected with the mission of St. Cyril and Methodius, who came to this region from Constantinopole to introduce the liturgical and canonical order of Eastern Orthodox Church.
		In the eastern part of the present Slovak Republic the Orthodox Church lasted due to the influence of the Kiev Russia until the 17th century, when the Union with Rome was instituted by the Viennese Court, Jesuits and noblemen in 1649.
		The legal entity in the Czech Republic is the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and the legal entity in the Slovak Republic is the Orthodox Church in Slovakia.
	www.ekumenickarada.cz /erceng/pravosl.html (746 words)

	Ruthenian Church
		Although in the 1920s a group of these Ruthenian Catholics returned to the Orthodox Church [see Orthodox Church in the Czech and Slovak Republics], Rusyn ethnic identity remained closely tied to the Ruthenian Catholic Church.
		Rusyns on the other side of the Czechoslovak border were also forced to become Orthodox, while those in the Polish Lemko region were deported en masse in 1947 either to the Soviet Union or other parts of Poland.
		One reason for the establishment of this jurisdiction—which was officially classified as belonging to the Ruthenian rite—was to regularize the situation of married Latin priests secretly ordained in Czechoslovakia under communist rule.
	www.faswebdesign.com /ECPA/Byzantine/Ruthenian.html (1170 words)

	THE CARPATHO-RUSYNS
		With regard to church jurisdiction, the Greek Catholic eparchies of Mukachevo (Ukraine), Presov (Slovakia), Hajdudorog (Hungary), and Krizevci (former Yugoslavia), as well as the Archdiocese/Metropolitan Province of Pittsburgh (United States) are each self-governing and under the direct authority of the Vatican.
		The Orthodox eparchy of Mukacevo-Uzhorod is part of the Ukrainian Orthodox (not Autocephalous) Church; the eparchy of Presov is within the Czechoslovak Autocephalous Orthodox Church; and the eparchy of Sanok-Przemysl is in the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
		In the United States, the Orthodox are either within the self-governing (autocephalous) Orthodox Church in America, or the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church under the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
	www.carpatho-rusyn.org /cra/chap1.htm (1458 words)

	The Ruthene Minority and its Wooden Churches (Spectacular Slovakia travel guide)
		The Counter Reformation had taken hold in the Habsburg lands, and, perhaps as a matter of expediency, the Orthodox priests of Ruthenia broke with their peers to the east and sought an alliance with Rome.
		The Communist leadership promptly forced the Greek Orthodox Church on both sides of the border to renounce its ties to Rome and return, after 350 years, to the Orthodox fold.
		The churches tend to sit in the middle of villages, set back several meters away from the road amid lovely tall trees.
	www.spectacularslovakia.sk /ss2003/04_ruthene.html (986 words)

	Orthodoxy
		The Church as a Viable Force in Shaping Eastern European Politics During the Fall of Communism: The Cases of East Germany, Poland, and Romania.
		Pospielovsky, Dimitry V. "The Survival of the Russian Orthodox Church in her Millennial Century: Faith as Martyria in an Atheistic State." Church, Nation and State in Russia and Ukraine (Geoffrey A. Hosking, ed.; NY: St. Martin's Press), 1991; 271-290.
		Orthodox patriotism and the Church in Russia, 1888--1914.
	www.stfx.ca /pinstitutes/cpcs/rel-pol/orthodoxy.htm (4560 words)

	Slovakian Church
		In April 1950, soon after the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia, a mock "synod" was convoked at Prešov at which five priests and a number of laymen signed a document declaring that the union with Rome was dissolved and asking to be received into the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate (later the Orthodox Church of Czechoslovakia).
		Most of their church buildings, however, remained in the hands of the Orthodox.
		It was given to the Orthodox in 1950.
	www.faswebdesign.com /ECPA/Byzantine/Slovakian.html (568 words)

	Religion, Culture, Education and Science.
		It is not the bible used by the Bulgarian Orthodox church.
		The St. Atanasius Orthodox church in the Macedonian village of Lesok was destroyed August 20, 2001.
		The Systematic Destruction of Orthodox Christian Churches and Cemeteries in Kosovo-Metohija and Macedonia (Serbiana - By Carl Savich).
	mixile.tripod.com /MacedoniaBulgaria/id14.html (7384 words)

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