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  2. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    The lower page includes the lines: Фамилия ("Family name"), Имя ("Name") and Отчество ("Patronymic"). Eastern Slavic naming customs are the traditional way of identifying a person's family name, given name, and patronymic name in East Slavic cultures in Russia and some countries formerly part of the Russian Empire and the ...

  3. Folk Orthodoxy - Wikipedia

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    In Slavic tradition, Peter and Paul are paired characters (cf. Saints Cosmas and Damian, Flor and Laurus), who may often appear in a single image: Peter-Paul, Peter-Paulo, Petropavlava. The Bulgarians considered them brothers, sometimes even twins, who had a sister, Saint Helen or Saint Mary . Peter is the younger brother and the kinder.

  4. Imiaslavie - Wikipedia

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    Imiaslavie (imyaslavie, Russian: Имяславие, literally "name-praisingness" or "name-glorification"), among critics also known as imyabozhie (Russian: Имябожие) or imyabozhnichestvo (Russian: Имябожничество), and also referred to as onomatodoxy (Greek: ονοματοδοξία) was a mystical-dogmatic movement in Russian Orthodoxy, the main position of which was ...

  5. Eastern Orthodox theology - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Orthodox theology is the theology particular to the Eastern Orthodox Church.It is characterized by monotheistic Trinitarianism, belief in the Incarnation of the divine Logos or only-begotten Son of God, cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by a Sacred Tradition, a catholic ecclesiology, a theology of the person, and a principally recapitulative and ...

  6. Diana (name) - Wikipedia

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    Diana is a feminine given name of Latin and Greek origins, referring to the Roman goddess Diana, goddess of the hunt and the moon. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It came into use in the Anglosphere in the 1600s by classically educated parents as an English-language version of the French version of the name, Diane .

  7. Romanian name - Wikipedia

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    The name reform introduced around 1850 had the names changed to a western style consisting of a given name followed by a family name (surname). As such, the name is called prenume, while the family name is called nume or, when otherwise ambiguous, nume de familie ("family name"). Middle names (second given names) are also fairly common.

  8. Orthodoxy - Wikipedia

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    Orthodox medicine. [21] The terms orthodox and orthodoxy are also used more broadly by English-speakers to refer to things other than ideas and beliefs. A new and unusual way of solving a problem could be referred to as unorthodox, while a common and 'normal' mainstream way of solving a problem might be referred to as orthodox.

  9. Name days in Bulgaria - Wikipedia

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    Name days in Bulgaria are name days associated with Eastern Orthodox [1] saints. Some names can be celebrated on more than one day. Some names can be celebrated on more than one day. According to the tradition, guests are supposed to come uninvited and the person who has the celebrated name is supposed to be prepared to treat everyone.