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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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His rhetoric took on elements of Eastern Orthodoxy and of darkness and light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

But the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest communion in Eastern Orthodoxy, has stayed on the old calendar, observing Christmas on Jan. 7 on the new calendar, as have Serbian, Georgian and some other Orthodox.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 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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