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Eastern Church
noun
- any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
Eastern Church
noun
- any of the Christian Churches of the former Byzantine Empire
- any Church owing allegiance to the Orthodox Church and in communion with the Greek patriarchal see of Constantinople
- any Church, including Uniat Churches, having Eastern forms of liturgy and institutions
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Eastern Church1
First recorded in 1585–95
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Example Sentences
In learned and literary circles too the Eastern Church had been discussed.
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Once already, the Eastern Church had seceded, but the quarrel was patched up again.
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The Eastern Church does not own them, neither are they of evangelical authority.
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These men indicated the social degradation of inferior orders in the Eastern Church.
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From this thunder-bolt may be dated the schism of the Eastern Church.
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