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  2. History of the Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    Timeline showing the main autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches, from an Eastern Orthodox point of view, up to 2022. Greek Orthodoxy. Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. The community and seat of the patriarchate according to Orthodox tradition was founded by St Peter and then given to St Ignatius, in what is now Turkey.

  3. Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 December 2024. Second-largest Christian church This article is about the Eastern Orthodox Church as an institution. For its religion, doctrine and tradition, see Eastern Orthodoxy. For other uses of "Orthodox Church", see Orthodox Church (disambiguation). For other uses of "Greek Orthodox", see Greek ...

  4. Eastern Orthodoxy - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, [1] is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, ...

  5. History of Eastern Orthodox theology - Wikipedia

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    The history of Eastern Orthodox Christian theology begins with the life of Jesus and the forming of the Christian Church.Major events include the Chalcedonian schism of 451 with the Oriental Orthodox miaphysites, the Iconoclast controversy of the 8th and 9th centuries, the Photian schism (863-867), the Great Schism (culminating in 1054) between East and West, and the Hesychast controversy (c ...

  6. Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in North America - Wikipedia

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    1955 Founding of the Council of Eastern Orthodox Churches of Central Massachusetts; 9th All-American Sobor of Metropolia held in New York City. 1956 Dr. Constantine Cavarnos founds the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies in Belmont, Massachusetts. 1958 Death of Metr.

  7. Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece (1821–1924)

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    One of the pious views of modern Greece concerns the role of the Orthodox Church in the establishment of the modern Greek nation-state.According to this view, the Church, in the role of a latter-day Noah's Ark, saved the Greek nation in the centuries of the Turkish and Western "deluge" following the fall of the eastern Roman empire in 1453.

  8. Apostolic succession - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem states that it was founded by James the Just. [ 76 ] Each Armenian Church (the Armenian Apostolic Church , based at Etchmiadzin , and the Armenian Catholic Church , whose patriarchal see is Cilicia but is based at Beirut ) states that it was founded by the Apostles Bartholomew and Jude Thaddeus .

  9. Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece (1453–1821)

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    1755–56 Council of Constantinople, convened and presided over by Ec. Patr. Cyril V, and attended by Patriarchs Matthew (Psaltis) of Alexandria and Parthenius of Jerusalem, and several bishops representing the Orthodox patriarchates, [note 49], decrees that Western converts must be baptized upon their reception into the Orthodox Church; [151 ...