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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

Bartholomew I is regarded as the “first among equals” among patriarchs in Eastern Orthodoxy and the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians.

From Seattle Times Jan. 6, 2024

Ukraine’s separate and independent branch of Eastern Orthodoxy was revived after the country gained independence with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

From New York Times Jan. 7, 2023

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 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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