Eastern Orthodoxy

The Eastern Orthodox Church is a body of Christians that claims origins extending directly back to Jesus and his Apostles through unbroken Apostolic Succession. Its doctrines were formalized through a series of church councils in the following centuries. Toward the end of its first thousand years of existence differences developed between the Church in the Eastern and Western Roman Empire that ultimately led to the Great Schism in 1054 dividing Christianity into Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Today the Eastern Orthodox Church includes the the various national churches of Eastern Europe such as the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox churches, and maintains a strong presence in these ethnic communities in countries such as the United States and Australia. (Read more)

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Related topics

• History of Eastern Orthodoxy | Ecumenical council | Great Schism
• Eastern Orthodoxy Doctrine | Mysteries | Theosis | Justification by faith plus works
• Eastern Orthodox Heirarchy
• Regional Divisions of the Eastern Orthodox Church Index - Constantinople | Alexandria | Antioch | Jerusalem | Russia | Georgia | Serbia | Romania | Bulgaria | Cyprus | Greece | Poland | Albania | Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church | America

Comments, Personal Articles, Studies and Sermons

Eastern Orthodoxy (discussion) (For short comments and opinions)

For related quotations see Eastern Orthodoxy (quotes)

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