- The Orthodox Church is the one Church founded by Jesus Christ and his apostles, begun at the day of Pentecost with the descent of the Holy Spirit in A.D. 33.
- Following the 1054 Great Schism, both the Western Church and Eastern Church continued to consider themselves uniquely orthodox and catholic .
- The Western Rite orthodox church is a branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Its rite is similar to that of the Celtic rite.
- The Orthodox Catholic Church is commonly known as the Eastern Orthodox Church, partly to avoid confusion with the Roman Catholic Church.
- Year Book And Church Directory Of The Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church Of America (Metropolia) , New York, N.Y., 1963, pp. 7-11.
- We will try to clarify the ambiguities associated with the Orthodox (Orthodox) Church in this article. But for this, you first need to clearly define the terms.
- The Ecumenical Patriarch of the Church of Constantinople is considered “first among equals” in Orthodox Christianity.
- Today Orthodox Church numbers approximately 300 million Christians who follow the faith and practices that were defined by the first seven ecumenical councils.
- The head of each Orthodox church is called a “patriarch” or “metropolitan.” The patriarch of Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) is considered the ecumenical—or...
- What does Orthodoxy Teach? The word Orthodox is Greek for ‘right glory’ and refers to the correctness and truth of the Orthodox Church’s faith and worship (cf.