- Smaller churches are autonomous and each have a mother church that is autocephalous. The Eastern Orthodox Church includes the following churches.
- Orthodox Eastern Church, community of Christian churches whose chief strength is in the Middle East [1] and E Europe.
- The Eastern Orthodox Church claims to be the original church founded by Jesus. It is old, full of tradition and icons.
- The Orthodox Catholic Church is commonly known as the Eastern Orthodox Church, partly to avoid confusion with the Roman Catholic Church.
- Two of the largest Eastern Christian sects are the Oriental Orthodoxy and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- The common name of the church, "Eastern Orthodox Church", is a shortened practicality that helps to avoid confusions in casual use.
- ...and denominations of Christians: from the fourteenth century to the nineteenth and from the New Zealand Maori missionaries to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- All members of the Eastern Orthodox Church profess the same faith, regardless of race or nationality, jurisdiction or local custom, or century of birth.
- The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is a critical institution in the context of global Christianity.
- Eastern Orthodoxy was reacting to the religious, cultural, linguistic, and political differences with the Western Church centred in Rome.