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The Church of Sinai is a Greek Orthodox autonomous church whose territory consists of St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt, along with several dependencies. There is a dispute as to whether the church is fully autocephalous or merely autonomous .
Article on the Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai by Ronald Roberson on the CNEWA web site; The Albanian Script: The Process – How Its Secrets Were Revealed [St. Catherine's], Azerbaijan International, Vol. 11:3 (Autumn 2003), pp. 44–51. Map showing the Monastery, 18th century. Eran Laor Cartographic Collection. The National Library of Israel
1.14 Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia. ... Archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu of the Church of Sinai; Russian Orthodox Church. This section is empty.
The monastery at Sinai is the only place where a substantial number of encaustic icons have been preserved, some dating from as early as the sixth century. [16] During the period of Byzantine Iconoclasm, the production of Orthodox icons continued at Sinai, as they were being destroyed in Constantinople. [17]
The following is a list of Orthodox Archbishops of Mount Sinai and Raithu (Greek: Αρχιεπίσκοπος Σινά και Ραϊθώ).The Church of Sinai is an autonomous (given that the Archbishop, and abbot of the monastery, is elected by the assembly of the monks (Brotherhood of Sinai) but is ordained by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem) body of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem:
John Climacus (Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης τῆς Κλίμακος; Latin: Ioannes Climacus; Arabic: يوحنا السلمي, romanized: Yuḥana al-Sêlmi), also known as John of the Ladder, John Scholasticus and John Sinaites, was a 6th–7th century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai. [1]
The Scala, which obtained an immense popularity and has made its author famous in the Church, is addressed to anchorites and cenobites and treats of the means by which the highest degree of religious perfection may be attained. Divided into thirty parts, or "steps", in memory of the thirty years of the life of Christ, the Divine model for the ...
The Holy fathers slain at Sinai and Raithu are saints venerated together on January 14 by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Greek Catholic Churches. They are also listed on the same date in the Roman Martyrology of the Roman Catholic Church .