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	Orthodox Church - MSN Encarta
		Orthodox Church, one of the three historic and distinctive types of Christianity, along with the Roman Catholic Church and the diverse body of Protestant churches.
		Orthodoxy is the form of Christianity that developed first in the Eastern Roman Empire (which spanned present-day Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East) and later in the Slavic lands of eastern Europe.
		The Orthodox Church sees itself as the authentic continuation of the first Christian communities established by the apostles of Jesus in the cities of the ancient Mediterranean world and spread by missionary activity throughout eastern Europe.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572657/Orthodox_Church.html (1163 words)

	AllRefer.com - Orthodox Eastern Church (Roman Catholic And Orthodox Churches: Branches, Schisms, And Heresies) - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orthodox Eastern Church, community of Christian churches whose chief strength is in the Middle East and E Europe.
		Eastern Christians who have returned to communion with the pope are called Eastern Catholics, or Uniates; in every respect apart from this obedience to Rome, they resemble their Orthodox counterparts.
		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.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Orthodox.html (343 words)

	Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orthodox Christians believe in a single God who is both three and one—Triune—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, "one in essence and undivided." The Holy Trinity is three "unconfused" distinct divine persons (hypostases), with no overlap or modality among them, who share one divine essence (ousia)—uncreated, immaterial and eternal.
		Eastern Orthodox theologians tended to rely more on Greek philosophers than did the West, often borrowing the categories and vocabulary of Neoplatonism to explain Christian doctrine, though not necessarily accepting all their theories.
		In the Theology of the Orthodox Church it is most important to understand that Christ, from the moment of conception was 100% God and 100% man. Therefore it is correct to say that Mary is indeed, the Theotokos, the Birth-giver of God, and that she is the greatest of all humans ever to have lived.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Orthodox (8978 words)

	Orthodox Eastern Church — FactMonster.com
		Orthodox Eastern Church, community of Christian churches whose chief strength is in the Middle East and E Europe.
		Orthodox Eastern Church: The Patriarchs and Churches - The Patriarchs and Churches The four ancient patriarchates enjoy the highest prestige.
		Orthodox Eastern Church: Relations with Rome and the West - Relations with Rome and the West The relations between the Orthodox and the Western Church have...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0836941.html (313 words)

	Eastern Orthodox Church -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Eastern Orthodoxy is "Christocentric", viewing Christ Jesus as the head of the Church, and the Church as his body; with authority derived directly from this relationship.
		The term "Orthodox" was adopted by the Eastern Church to signify its adherence to, and preservation of, the original apostolic traditions, teachings, and style of (The activity of worshipping) worship.
		The general Orthodox consensus is that Roman Catholics are both schismatics and (A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church) heretics, although a minority of Orthodox Christians believe that the difference in reality is smaller than it appears superficially.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/eastern_orthodox_church.htm (8642 words)

	Forgoten Christians of the East
		Christian boys were kidnapped and taken to the Janissaries for conversion to Islam and political indoctrination.
		The Greek and Armenian Christians who sought their right to self determination were denied not only by Turkish Muslims such as Muftapha Kemal and Noureddin Pasha, but by the western powers looking to protect their economic and geostratic interests at the expense of the Eastern Churches.
		Christians are discriminated against, beaten, terrorized, and murdered while their Churches are desecrated and destroyed.
	www.greece.org /themis/action_press/christians.htm (1216 words)

	Orthodox Eastern Church. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
		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.
		In 1950 several Eastern Orthodox denominations joined with Protestant groups in the formation of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; almost all Orthodox churches in America are now members.
	www.bartleby.com /65/or/Orthodox.html (1768 words)

	Orthodox Church
		The Eastern Orthodox church is a Catholic body of national jurisdictions which include Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox.
		Eastern Orthodoxy is the second largest Christian communion in the world after the Roman Catholic church and the third largest grouping overall after Protestantism.
		The Eastern Orthodox is similar to the Roman Catholic church and is referred to as Eastern Rite Catholic.
	www.worshipquest.org /Orthodox.html (153 words)

	ipedia.com: Eastern Orthodoxy Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "Eastern" churches with the largest number of adherents, according to the primary and narrow sense of "Eastern Orthodox", are the Russian and the Romanian Orthodox churches.
		The various churches of the Eastern Orthodox Communion who acknowledge the Patriarch of Constantinople (Official Title 'Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch') are distinct in terms of administration and local culture but exist in full communion with one another.
		An important symbol for the eastern Orthodoxy and its spread north to the Slavic peoples was the construction in the 530s of Hagia Sophia, a most impressive church building in Constantinople, under emperor Justinian I.
	www.ipedia.com /eastern_orthodoxy.html (4360 words)

	Touchstone Archives: Eastern Christians & Western Problems
		For example, although Archbishop Iakovos of the Greek Orthodox archdiocese is not in every instance an undoubted spokesman for all the Orthodox in the United States, he was exactly that when he recently suspended any further theological dialogue with the Episcopal church because of the latter’s open debate on questions like these.
		You see, this Orthodox fellow has been entertaining the notion that he and the other Orthodox have a real choice about the integral preservation of the Christian Faith, and (try to be patient with him) he is grieved by the suggestion that they don’t have such a choice.
		His grief is augmented when, upon his asserting that the Orthodox have never changed their doctrine in the past and are absolutely resolved never to do so in the future, he is then told that the Orthodox are stagnant, out of date and inadequately in touch with modern culture.
	touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=04-04-015-f (3010 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eastern Churches
		Patriarch" are Orthodox, and that Monophysite Armenians are Gregorian.
		Eastern Christians were persuaded to reunite with the West, the situation that had existed before the schisms became an actual one again.
		The idea of latinizing all Eastern Catholics, sometimes defended by people on our side whose zeal for uniformity is greater than their knowledge of the historical and juridical situation, is diametrically opposed to antiquity, to the Catholic system of ecclesiastical organization, and to the policy of all popes.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05230a.htm (10881 words)

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		The losses of Eastern Christianity continued following the invasions of Byzantium that were begun by the Seljuk Turks in August 1071.
		The Greek and Armenian Christians who sought their right to self determination were denied not only by Turkish Muslims such as Mustafa Kemal and Noureddin Pasha, but by the western powers looking to protect their economic and geostratic interests at the expense of the Eastern Churches.
		Some writers have accused Greece of being "Muslim hating." This is particularly bizarre in light of the history of suffering that Orthodox Christians have experienced.
	www.islamreview.com /articles/forgottenchristians.shtml (1274 words)

	OCA - Orthodox Christians in North America (1794 - 1994)
		Orthodox Christians form significant minorities throughout much of Europe (for example, the Orthodox Church is recognized as an official State Church in Finland), in Australia and New Zealand, and in South America.
		In self-identity, however, Orthodox Christians in North America are most like Orthodox Jews; a people apart, unable, and at times unwilling, to separate the claims of race, religion, and politics: people for whom the Greek term "diaspora" (literally, "dispersion") has been an expression of enduring meaning.
		Rather, Orthodox Christians in North America focuses specific attention and reflection on the institutional, social, and theological history of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) as the paradigm for much of the Orthodox experience in North America.
	www.oca.org /MVorthchristiansnamerica.asp?SID=1&Chap=INTRO (1147 words)

	Catholic-Pages.com \| Discussion Forum - Eastern Catholic vs. Eastern Orthodox
		However, the Eastern Churches have retained this practice and the Eastern Orthodox use the western change as a point of contention, a reason to argue with us in the Catholic church.
		Eastern Orthodox, not being bound by one authority, do differ among themselves (at least in practice).
		The Eastern CATHOLIC Churces are the other lung, not the Eastern Orthodox who are in both heresy and schism and ergo, NOT members of the Catholic Church nor members of the Body of Christ.
	www.catholic-pages.com /forum/topic.asp?topic_id=4519&whichpage=5 (1689 words)

	Are Mormons Christians? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Christian teachings and practices can be more or less inadequate, even seriously mistaken, while remaining Christian, just as competing theories of the solar system can vary and still lay claim to being scientific theories.
		The only definition of the word Christian that accounts for its use through the centuries and that includes all the individuals and groups who are universally regarded as falling under its description seems to be roughly this: A Christian is a person who accepts Jesus Christ as, uniquely, his or her Lord and Redeemer.
		Christianity itself was once a new religion with dynamic leadership, strong in-group bonding, high moral expectations, and additional scriptures, all of which greatly offended the mainline religions of its day.
	www.lightplanet.com /mormons/response/general/christians (4947 words)

	In Brief
		An estimated 6 million Eastern Orthodox Christians in the United States will join 300 million worshipers around the world in celebrating Easter tomorrow.
		Orthodox Easter this year falls five weeks after the holiday was celebrated by other Christian groups.
		The Rev. Sharon E. Watkins, senior minister of the Disciples Christian Church of Bartlesville, Okla., has been nominated to become the next leader of the Indianapolis-based Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/29/AR2005042901234_pf.html (515 words)

	Eastern Orthodox Christianity, The Basics
		While Catholics believe that the Pope is the supreme head of the entire Christian church, as the living descendant of Peter, Orthodox Christians believe that regional churches have significant autonomy.
		Today both the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches claim to be "the one, Holy Catholic and apostolic church," and see the split as a matter of the other side having departed from the truth.
		The principal, autonomous churches of the Orthodox communion include, in addition to the mother church of Constantinople, those of Russia and the Republics of the former Soviet Union, Cyprus, Greece, Alexandria, and Antioch.
	www.godweb.org /orthodoxy.htm (432 words)

	A Question for Eastern Orthodox Christians - Page 2 - TheologyWeb Campus
		Orthodox thought does vary on whether Mary actually ever sinned, though there is general agreement that she was cleansed from sin at the Annunciation.
		From the Orthodox point of view, however, the whole question belongs to the realm of theological opinion; and if an individual Orthodox today felt impelled to believe in the Immaculate Conception, he could not be termed a heretic for so doing.
		In all honesty, it was the total insistance of Orthodox christians to continually misrepresent the Roman Catholic teachings that led me to seriously consider that maybe they were the true teachings.
	www.theologyweb.com /campus/showthread.php?t=87418&page=2 (3493 words)

	CNN.com - Orthodox Christians in Holy Land celebrate Christmas - Jan. 6, 2004
		The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Eireneos I, dressed in a red cape with gold embroidery, was kissed and hugged by Bethlehem officials and greeted by a large crowd of residents as he made his way to the Church of the Nativity, escorted by police.
		Christmas falls on January 7 for Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, Russia and other Eastern Orthodox churches that use the old Julian calendar instead of the 16th-century Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholics and Protestants and commonly used in secular life around the world.
		Other Orthodox Christians, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew -- the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox -- and the Greek church in Greece and the Americas, celebrated the holiday on December 25.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/01/06/orthodox.christmas.ap/index.html (481 words)

	Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Ministries - Community
		We are Christians through believing in our Lord Jesus Christ and Eastern Orthodox Christians through, believing in the teachings of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
		The Church is a body of Christians, united by the Seven Sacraments, the Hierarchy and the Orthodox faith.
		Icons are the Holy Pictures used in Eastern Orthodox churches to represent Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and the Saints.
	www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/thefaith/catechism.cfm (6129 words)

	Orthodox Church Timeline - St. Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church
		The Eastern Orthodox Church affirmed the decision of Chalcedon, while the Oriental Orthodox Churches did not.
		The sacking of Constantinople by the 'Christian' crusaders further estranges the East and the West.
		Crown Prince Ras Tafari is coronated as Emperor of Ethiopia on November 2, vowing to defend the ancient Faith of the Orthodox Church.
	www.stmaryofegypt.net /history.shtml (1828 words)

	The Orthodox Church - Holy Cross Whitestone
		The Orthodox Church, with its history that dates back to the origin of Christianity, is rich in tradition and the beauty of its ritual.
		The strength of the Orthodox Church is shown by its survival through many periods of persecution and its subsequent growth through the centuries.
		It was in these eastern regions of the old Roman Empire that the Christian faith matured in her struggle against paganism and heresy.
	www.holycrosswhitestone.org /orthodox_history.html (1392 words)

	CNN.com - Orthodox Christians in Holy Land celebrate Christmas - Jan. 6, 2004
		The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Eireneos I, dressed in a red cape with gold embroidery, was kissed and hugged by Bethlehem officials and greeted by a large crowd of residents as he made his way to the Church of the Nativity, escorted by police.
		Christmas falls on January 7 for Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, Russia and other Eastern Orthodox churches that use the old Julian calendar instead of the 16th-century Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholics and Protestants and commonly used in secular life around the world.
		Other Orthodox Christians, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew -- the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox -- and the Greek church in Greece and the Americas, celebrated the holiday on December 25.
	cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/01/06/orthodox.christmas.ap (490 words)

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