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Eastern Orthodox

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noun

derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites

• Syn: ↑Orthodox Church, ↑Orthodox Catholic Church, ↑Eastern Orthodox Church, ↑Eastern Church

• Members of this Topic: ↑canonization, ↑canonisation, ↑bishop

• Hypernyms: ↑Catholic Church

• Hyponyms: ↑Greek Orthodox Church, ↑Greek Church, ↑Russian Orthodox Church

II

adjective

of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church

• Syn: ↑Orthodox, ↑Russian Orthodox, ↑Greek Orthodox

• Pertains to noun: ↑Orthodox Church (for: ↑Greek Orthodox), ↑Orthodox Church (for: ↑Russian Orthodox), ↑Orthodox Church, ↑Orthodox Church (for: ↑Orthodox)

• Topics: ↑religion, ↑faith, ↑religious belief

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adjective

Usage: usually capitalized E&O

: of, relating to, or being the body of Eastern churches in communion with the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople that includes the churches of the ancient patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem and a number of autocephalous often national churches (as the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches) and that adheres to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed and to a rite having the same liturgies in different languages, Communion under both kinds, an ecclesiastical year including days for Old Testament saints and based on the Julian calendar, and a married parish clergy

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of or pertaining to the Orthodox Church.

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Eastern Orthodox,

of or having to do with the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.