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  • An Island of True Orthodox Faith and Piety. The Odessa Convent of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. 408 0. Churches and Monasteries.
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  • Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church An Introduction to Eastern Christianity. New York: Penguin, 2015.
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  • The Orthodox Church is the original Christian Church, the Church founded by the Lord Jesus Christ and described in the pages of the New Testament.
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