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  2. Orientation of churches - Wikipedia

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    The importance attached to orientation of churches declined after the 15th century. [20] In his instructions on the building and arrangement of churches, Charles Borromeo , archbishop of Milan from 1560 to 1584, expressed a preference for having the apse point exactly east, but accepted that, where that is impractical, a church could be built ...

  3. Liturgical east and west - Wikipedia

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    A schematic plan showing the elements and orientation that are common to many churches. Liturgical east and west is a concept in the orientation of churches.It refers to the fact that the end of a church which has the altar, for symbolic religious reasons, is traditionally on the east side of the church (to the right in a diagram).

  4. Ad orientem - Wikipedia

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    A 15th-century bishop celebrates Mass ad orientem, facing in the same direction as the people Tridentine Mass, celebrated regularly ad orientem. Ad orientem, meaning "to the east" in Ecclesiastical Latin, is a phrase used to describe the eastward orientation of Christian prayer and Christian worship, [1] [2] comprising the preposition ad (toward) and oriens (rising, sunrise, east), participle ...

  5. Altar (Catholic Church) - Wikipedia

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    Churches were generally built with an east–west axis. In the earliest churches in Rome the altar stood at the west end and the priest stood at the western side of the altar facing east and facing the people and the doors of the church. Examples are the Constantinian St. Peter's Basilica and the original Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the ...

  6. List of Christian denominational positions on homosexuality

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    Officially known as the Iglesia Filipina Independiente and colloquially called the Aglipayan Church, an Independent Catholic denomination with Anglo-Catholic [184] orientation, the church has adopted an official and binding position of inclusion and full acceptance of LGBT individuals and organizations since 2017 after the question of ...

  7. East - Wikipedia

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    Hence, Christian churches have been traditionally oriented towards the east. [3] [4] After some early exceptions, this tradition of having the altar on the liturgical east has become a part of the church orientation concept liturgical east and west.

  8. Versus populum - Wikipedia

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    In actual practice throughout the Roman Catholic Church, popes, cardinals, archbishops, bishops and priests, by their constant examples since the Novus Ordo form of the Roman Missal was initially promulgated, have been nearly unanimous in adopting versus populum as the defining orientation for the priest during the Mass.

  9. Orientation - Wikipedia

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    Orientation of churches, the architectural feature of facing ("orienting"), churches towards the east (Latin: oriens) Coin orientation, a description of the orientation of opposite faces of a coin with respect to one another; Page orientation, the way in which a rectangular page is oriented for normal viewing