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Byzantine Church

American  
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

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

I therefore take note first of the mythic saints in succession, whom this treatment of them by the Byzantine Church made afterwards the favourite idols of all Christendom.

From The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford by Ruskin, John

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

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