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Eastern Orthodoxy

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noun

  1. the faith, practice, membership, and government of the Eastern Orthodox Church.


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He was joined by clergymen including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the most senior bishop in Eastern Orthodoxy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Eastern Orthodoxy is a socially conservative, ancient church with elaborate rituals and a strict hierarchy.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2024

Francis met with Kirill in Havana in 2016, a move aimed at repairing centuries of divisions since the split of Eastern Orthodoxy from Western Christianity.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2022

The success of these missionary efforts united much of Eastern Europe and Byzantium in a common religious culture – that of Eastern Orthodoxy.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

The leading elements of this history on its western side are Poland, the Catholic Church, Germany; on the eastern side they are Russia, Eastern Orthodoxy, Northern Asia.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

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