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Still, the Church split along doctrinal, theological, linguistic, political, and geographical lines, and the fundamental breach has never been healed: each side occasionally accuses the other of committing heresy and of having initiated the schism.
Thus far, Patriarch John X of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, [217] [218] Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church, [218] Archbishop Chrysostomos II of the Church of Cyprus, [219] Metropolitan Sawa (Hrycuniak) of the Polish Orthodox Church, [220] Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America, [note 4] [221] Archbishop ...
The Roman church held this place of honor and exercised a 'presidency in love' among the first Christian churches for two reasons. It was founded on the teaching and blood of the foremost Christian apostles Peter and Paul. And it was the church of the capital city of the Roman empire that then constituted the 'civilized world (oikoumene)'." [25]
The subsequent mutual alienation of the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West led to increasing ignorance of the theological and ecclesiological developments of each tradition. The Eastern Church and the Western Church used respectively Greek and Latin as their media of communication. Translations did not always correspond exactly.
The East-West Schism, or Great Schism, separated the Church into Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek) branches, i.e., Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. It was the first major division since certain groups in the East rejected the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon (see Oriental Orthodoxy ) and was far more significant.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government is speeding up its timetable to legalize same-sex marriage despite growing opposition from the powerful Orthodox Church.
The Holy Synod stated: "If the Ukrainian schism is really recognized by the Greek Orthodox Church and its Primate — either in the form of a joint service, liturgical commemoration of the leader of the schism or sending official letters to them — it will be a sad testimony to the deepening division in the family of local Orthodox Churches.