• Ukraine. This led to the 2018 MoscowConstantinople schism. Numerous Orthodox churches took position concerning the dispute over the canonical jurisdiction...
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    The Eastern Schism, also known as the 2018 MoscowConstantinople schism, is a schism between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC, also known as the Moscow...
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  • The history of the Eastern Orthodox Church is the formation, events, and transformation of the Eastern Orthodox Church through time. According to the...
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  • Due to the 2018 MoscowConstantinople schism, the Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate along with several primates of other...
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    Orthodox Church, is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine. It is one of 16 autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, 15th listed in diptych. The Eastern Orthodox...
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    Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy List of Eastern Orthodox churches in Australia MoscowConstantinople schism (2018) Timeline of Orthodoxy in Greece (33–717) Protestantism...
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    The East–West Schism, also known as the Great Schism or the Schism of 1054, is the break of communion between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches...
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    the Saviour at Berestove 2018 MoscowConstantinople schism Unification council of the Orthodox churches of Ukraine Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church...
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    Russian Orthodox bishop. He became Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church on 1 February 2009. Prior to becoming...
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    beginning of the 2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism. On 15 December 2018 a unification council founded the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. On 5 January 2019...
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    through the emergence of a Catholic north and Orthodox south. During the moment of schism, 1054, Albanians were attached to the Eastern Orthodox Church and...
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    plan to install a cleric subservient to Peter as bishop of Constantinople so that Alexandria would retain the leadership of the Eastern Churches. Many...
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    been and remain the primary causes of the schism between the Eastern Orthodox and Western churches. The Nicene Creed as amended by the Second Ecumenical...
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  • widely-known Eastern Orthodox Church. Notably, the creation of the MOC has been opposed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Patriarch Bartholomew...
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    based on Eastern Christianity. This tradition is represented in Ukraine by the Byzantine Rite, the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches, which...
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    Eastern Orthodox Church of the Old Believers tradition, which rejected the liturgical and canonical reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the second half of 17th...
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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...
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  • Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since 1925, the church's Primate has borne the...
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    an Chalcedonian church from 360 AD to 1054, an Orthodox church following the Great Schism of 1054, and a Catholic church following the Fourth Crusade....
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    Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. In the Eastern Orthodox churches, some understand the primacy of the bishop of Rome to be merely one of greater...
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  • remained Orthodox. During the moment of schism (1054) Albanians were attached to the Eastern Orthodox Church and were all Orthodox Christians in the northeast...
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    Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Germanus V of Constantinople, wrote a letter "addressed 'To all the Churches of Christ, wherever they...
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  • with the Oriental Orthodox, 1054 to 1449 (see East–West Schism) during which time the Orthodox Churches of the East parted ways with the Western Church over...
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    In the Orthodox Churches, theosis results from leading a pure life, practicing restraint and adhering to the commandments, putting the love of God before...
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    Council of Ephesus) that the Assyrian Church of the East and the churches of Asia, parted ways in schism with the Eastern Orthodox Church, the church of Byzantium...
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  • Presidents of the Particular Eastern Orthodox Churches", Meletius IV of Constantinople, the Oecumenical Patriarch, wrote: "That the Orthodox theologians...
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    Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Orthodox Churches of Alexandria, Jerusalem, Serbia, Romania, Greece, Poland, Albania, Cyprus and the Czech Lands and...
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