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Byzantine Church

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Byzantine Church British  

noun

  1. another name for the Orthodox Church

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The most serious was the fire stared next to the ruins of the Byzantine Church of St George.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025

The bells of the Byzantine Church of the Resurrection are ringing.

From Time Magazine Archive

We know that the Byzantine Church modes were purely diatonic, so is the harmonization of the Russian folk-song in its most elementary and uncorrupted form.

From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Singleton, Esther

However different in origin and interest the strangely mixed hordes may be which constitute this giant realm, there exists one mighty bond which holds them all together,—the Byzantine Church.

From A Treatise on Relics by Calvin, John

In the wild and mountainous interior, however, the Byzantine Church had few or no rivals and the Orthodox creed prevailed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

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