Eastern Orthodox Church

American  

noun

1. Orthodox Church.

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Eastern Orthodox Church British  

noun

1. another name for the Orthodox Church

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Eastern Orthodox Church Cultural  

1. One of the three great divisions of Christianity; the others are the Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic and Orthodox churches were originally united, but they parted in the eleventh century, when they differed over several points of doctrine, including the supreme authority of the pope, which Orthodox Christians reject.

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Orthodox church buildings are beautifully and elaborately decorated. Worshipers pay special reverence to icons, which are paintings of Jesus and the saints.

The Orthodox Church is the dominant form of Christianity in much of eastern Europe and in Greece.

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Example Sentences

The monastery was founded in about the fifth century, and by the 18th century was said to have a collection of some 1,300 volumes, an Eastern Orthodox Church official wrote in a letter in 2015.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2023

Following this Great Schism of 1054, the eastern church became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the western half the Catholic Church.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

The pontiff acknowledged that priests in the Eastern Orthodox Church, which is considered a part of global Catholicism, are married, and that churches aligned with Rome allow married clergy, who select that option before ordination.

From Washington Times • Mar. 13, 2023

In 2019, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church, granted complete independence, or autocephaly, to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2022

Except in the Eastern Orthodox Church, which stuck with its neumes.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall