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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

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

Eastern Orthodoxy is the predominant religion in Ukraine and Russia, as well as in several neighboring lands.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2022

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church, for its part, has been slowly asserting itself under its own patriarch, reviving a separate and independent branch of Eastern Orthodoxy, after the independence of Ukraine in 1991.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 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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