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The forming of Christianity as state religion dates to the time of the Eastern Orthodox missionaries (Saints) Cyril and Methodius during Basil I (r. 867–886), who baptised the Serbs sometime before helping Knez Mutimir in the war against the Saracens in 869, after acknowledging the suzerainty of the Byzantine Empire.
The Eastern Orthodox Christian life is a spiritual pilgrimage in which each person, through the imitation of Christ and hesychasm, [14] cultivates the practice of unceasing prayer. Each life occurs within the life of the church as a member of the body of Christ . [ 15 ]
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 ...
c. 1520 Sultan Selim I, who disliked Christianity, suggested to his vizier that all Christians should be forcibly converted to Islam. [ 36 ] [ note 12 ] 1522 The first printed copy of the Septuagint (earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew ) was issued in the Complutensian Polyglot Bible (1514–22).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 January 2025. 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 ...
Saints Cyril and Methodius, Equals-to-the-Apostles. 843 Empress Theodora secures return of icon-veneration with Triumph of Orthodoxy occurring on first Sunday of Great Lent, restoring icons to churches; [note 16] the monks of Mount Athos send a delegation to Constantinople to celebrate the restoration of the veneration of icons; [48] Theodora, regent of Byzantine emperor, persecutes Paulicians ...
Stephen Ortinsky sent to the US by Rome to stem the tide of Uniate returns to Orthodoxy; Papal decree Ea Semper issued, mandating all Uniate priests in American be celibate; first Sunday of Orthodoxy service in New York; first Bulgarian parish in Madison, Illinois; ordination in Constantinople of first African-American Orthodox priest, the Very ...
Icon of Apostle Paul, Apostle of Greece and Cyprus.. c. 45–46 Apostle Paul ' s mission to Cyprus, where he converts proconsul Quintus Sergius Paullus. [19]c. 49 Paul's mission to Philippi, Thessaloniki and Veria; [20] [21] Lydia of Thyatira becomes the first convert to Christianity in Europe after hearing Paul's words in Philippi proclaiming the Gospel of Christ during his second missionary ...