The Orthodox Church, also officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church[note 1] and commonly referred to in English English is a West Germanic language that developed in England during the Anglo-Saxon era. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political, and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries and of the United States since the mid 20th century, it has become the lingua franca in many parts of speaking countries as the Eastern Orthodox Church,[note 2] is the world's second largest Christian communion The term Communion is derived from Latin communio . The corresponding term in Greek is κοινωνία, which is often translated as "fellowship". In Christianity, the basic meaning of the term communion is an especially close relationship of Christians, as individuals or as a Church, with God and with other Christians. This basic, estimated to number 225 million members.[2] It is considered by its adherents to be the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church The Four Marks of the Church are a group of four adjectives—one, holy, catholic and apostolic—characteristics describing the marks, or "notes," of the Christian church. The source is the Nicene Creed of A.D. 325 which contains the line: "We believe in one holy, catholic and apostolic church." The Four Marks describe a established by Jesus Christ Jesus of Nazareth —also known as Jesus Christ or occasionally Jesus the Christ—is the central figure of Christianity, and within most Christian denominations he is venerated as the Son of God and as God incarnate. Christians also view him as the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament; however, Judaism rejects these claims. Islam considers Jesus and his Apostles In Christianity, apostles were missionaries among the leaders in the Early Church and, in the Epistle to the Hebrews,[3:1] Jesus Christ himself. The term was also used, especially by the Gospel of Luke, for "the Twelve," Jesus' inner circle of disciples (students). They were, according to the Acts of the Apostles and Christian tradition, almost 2,000 years ago. The Church is composed of several self-governing ecclesial bodies, each geographically and nationally distinct but theologically unified. Each self-governing (or autocephalous) body, often but not always encompassing a nation A nation is a body of people who share a real or imagined common history, culture, language or ethnic origin who inhabit a particular country or territory. The development and conceptualization of the nation is closely related to the development of modern industrial states and nationalist movements in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries,, is shepherded by a synod A synod is a council of a church, usually a Christian church, convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application. An ecumenical council is so named because it is a synod of the whole church (or, more accurately, of what those who call it consider to be the whole church.) of bishops whose duty, among other things, is to preserve and teach the Apostolic and patristic traditions and related Church practices. All Orthodox bishops trace their lineage back to the Apostles through the process of Apostolic Succession Apostolic succession is the doctrine in some of the more ancient Christian communions that the succession of bishops, in uninterrupted lines, is historically traceable back to the original Twelve Apostles. Apostolic succession is not the same as the Petrine supremacy . As a general rule, Protestantism rejects the doctrine of apostolic succession, in the same manner as the Roman Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church,[note 1] is the world's largest Christian church. With more than a billion members, over half of all Christians[note 2] and more than one-sixth of the world's population, the Catholic Church is a communion of the Western, or Church, and 22 autonomous Eastern Catholic Churches (called, Oriental Orthodox Oriental Orthodoxy is the communion of Eastern Christian Churches that recognize only three ecumenical councils — the First Council of Nicaea, the First Council of Constantinople and the Council of Ephesus. They rejected the dogmatic definitions of the Council of Chalcedon . Hence, these Oriental Orthodox Churches are also called Old Oriental, Anglican, and some other churches.
The Orthodox Church traces its development back through the Byzantine The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire, known to its inhabitants as the Roman Empire, the Empire of the Romans , was the continuation of the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on the capital of Constantinople, and ruled by Emperors in direct succession to the ancient Roman Emperors. The Empire preserved Romano-Hellenistic and Roman The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean. The term is used to describe the Roman state during and after the time of the first emperor, Augustus. The nearly 500-year-old Roman Republic, empires, to the earliest church established by St. Paul Paul of Tarsus, also called Paul the Apostle, the Apostle Paul, or Saint Paul, (Ancient Greek: Σαούλ , Σαῦλος (Saulos), and Παῦλος (Paulos); Latin: Paulus or Paullus; Hebrew: שאול התרסי Šaʾul HaTarsi (Saul of Tarsus) (died c 64-65), was a Hellenistic Jew who called himself the "Apostle to the Gentiles" and the Apostles. It practices the original ancient traditions, believing in growth without change. In non-doctrinal matters the church had occasionally shared from local Greek The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in diaspora communities around the world, Slavic The Slavic Peoples are an ethnic and linguistic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in eastern and central Europe. From the early 6th century they spread from their original homeland to inhabit most of eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Many settled later in Siberia and Central Asia or emigrated to other parts of and Middle Eastern traditions, among others, in turn shaping the cultural development of these nations.
Orthodox Christians believe that the ultimate goal of every Christian is to become like God, to love perfectly, to become “Little Christs” within Jesus Christ. This process is called theosis In Christian theology, particularly in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholic theology, theosis is the process of transformation of a believer who is putting into practise (called praxis) the spiritual teachings of Jesus Christ and His gospel. In particular, theosis refers to the attainment of likeness to or union with God, or deification.[3]
The Biblical text A Biblical canon or canon of scripture is a list or set of Biblical books considered to be authoritative as scripture by a particular religious community, generally in Judaism or Christianity. The term itself was first coined by Christians, but the idea is found in Jewish sources. The internal wording of the text can also be specified, for example: used by the Orthodox includes the Greek Septuagint The Septuagint , or simply "LXX", referred to in critical works by the abbreviation 𝔊 or 𝔖, is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC in Alexandria and the New Testament. It includes the Deuterocanonical Books Deuterocanonical books is a term used since the sixteenth century in the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Christianity to describe certain books and passages of the Christian Old Testament that are not part of the Jewish Bible. The term is used in contrast to the protocanonical books, which are contained in the Hebrew Bible. This distinction had, which are generally rejected by Protestants Protestantism is a branch within Christianity, containing many denominations of different practices and doctrines, that originated in the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It is considered to be one of the primary divisions within the original Christian church, i.e., the Catholic Church, along with Eastern Orthodoxy. Some groups that are, and a few texts that are not in the Western canon, however they don't use them as if they were on the same level as the other 39 books, but call them Anagignoskomena, a Greek word which accepts them as pious catechetical books. Orthodox believe scripture was inspired by the Holy Spirit to its authors, speakers and editors. Orthodox Christians also utilize icons as focal points when venerating the saints, in their daily worship while rejecting three-dimensional statuary. It should be fully understood that the icon is not venerated but is a device to identify with the consciousness of the person represented therein. The Orthodox Church maintains that this is not idolatry, but that the icon is used only as a means of identification of a God-created person.
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SYOSSET, NY [OCA Communications] The Holy Synod of Bishops of the . Orthodox Church. in America and the OCA's Metropolitan Council will hold their fall sessions from Tuesday, September 22 through Friday, September 25, 2009. ...
Q. please help i need to to finish the test to go somewere please help!
Asked by bob - Thu Jun 4 16:10:58 2009 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments
A. This is actually a lot harder question than it seems due to our incorrectly learned history of the early Christian Church. The Eastern Orthodox Churches trace their roots all the way back to the Apostles and Jesus Christ. After the Crucifixion of Jesus. his personal FRIEND and disciple peter headed the Early Christian Jerusalem Church ... IN Jerusalem. The Roman Christian Church was headed by Saul / Paul, a foreign Jew from what is today north Turkey. He's man that had a religious vision, a man that had never met Jesus OR his friends and disciples. They were NOT the SAME Christian Churches. In fact BOTH Peter and Paul picked different first Popes to RUN the Christian Church. 300 years AFTER the Crucifixion of Jesus there was not 1… [cont.]
Answered by muinghan - Thu Jun 4 17:07:18 2009
