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unusual facts about Eastern Orthodox



Bekele Debele

Bekele was born into an Eastern Orthodox family of rural farmers in Shewa and was raised alongside his two brothers and two sisters.

Christianity in Russia

According to a global survey conducted at the end of 2013, 71% of surveyed Russians identify themselves as Christian; of these, 69% identify as either Russian or Eastern Orthodox, and 2% as Protestants or another branch of Christianity.

George Tarassov

George of Syracuse (born George Tarassov April 14, 1893 Voronezh, Russia – March 22, 1981 Paris, France) was an Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate who led the Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe from 1960 to 1981.

Honorific

Other honorifics may denote the honored person’s occupation, for instance "Doctor", "Captain", "Coach", "Officer", "Reverend" for all clergy and/or "Father" (for a Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, or Anglican Christian priest), or Professor.

Ice palace

Empress Anna saw this as an affront because she was a Catholic, not Eastern Orthodox.

Olshanski

During the 14–16th centuries most of the family was Orthodox by faith and Ruthenian by language, although there were exceptions, in particular Paweł Holszański was a Catholic Church official.

Paschal greeting

The Paschal greeting is an Easter custom among Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Christians, as well as among some Roman Catholic and Protestant Christians.

The Testament of Freedom

The second movement is slower in nature, and resembles a dirge; numerous writers, including Virgil Thompson, commented on its resemblance to Eastern Orthodox chant.

Varshets

Varshets has an art gallery, a municipal museum and an Eastern Orthodox church dedicated to Saint George.


see also

Asimov's Guide to the Bible

Asimov's Guide to the Bible is a work by Isaac Asimov that was first published in two volumes in 1967 and 1969, covering the Old Testament and the New Testament (including the Catholic Old Testament, or deuterocanonical, books and the Eastern Orthodox Old Testament books, or anagignoskomena, along with the Fourth Book of Ezra), respectively.

Auxentius

Auxentius of Bithynia or Saint Auxentius (d. 473), a hermit cleared of heresy at the Council of Chalcedon and an Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic saint.

Belene

The Catholic Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in 1860, the Eastern Orthodox Church of St George in 1874 and the Catholic Church of Saint Anthony of Padua was constructed in 1893.

Christos anesti

Paschal troparion, hymn for the celebration of Easter in the Eastern Orthodox Church

Paschal greeting, Easter custom among Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic and some Protestant Christians to greet another person with "Christ is Risen!" and the response is Alithos Anesti ("Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! " - "Truly He is Risen!" or "He Has Risen Indeed!")

Council of Lyon

Second Council of Lyon (1274; Pope Gregory X; regarding union with the Eastern Orthodox and other matters)

Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs

The encyclical explicitly denounces the Filioque clause added by Rome to the Nicene Creed as a heresy, censures the papacy for missionizing among Eastern Orthodox Christians, and repudiates Ultramontanism (papal supremacy).

In the course of all this, it notably makes reference to the Eighth Ecumenical Council (879-880), in contrast with the opinion of many modern Eastern Orthodox Christians that there are only seven Ecumenical Councils accepted by the Orthodox Church.

Estonian Orthodox Church

Orthodoxy in Estonia, the development of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Estonia

Filioque

Hubert Cunliffe-Jones identifies two opposing views among Eastern Orthodox regarding the Filioque: a "liberal" view and a "rigorist" view.

First seven Ecumenical Councils

For those who accept it (Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics, most liturgical Protestants), it is the Fourth Ecumenical Council (calling the Second Council of Ephesus, which was rejected by this council, the "Robber Synod" or "Robber Council").

George Dragas

At present, he is also a Visiting Professor at Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, and Visiting Professor of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism at Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, New York.

Glorious Appearing

In the National Review, the Catholic author Carl E. Olson described Glorious Appearing as "400 pages of repetitive, numbing bombast", and said that the premillenialist dispensationalist theology that forms the theological basis for the novels "is rejected, either explicitly or implicitly, by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches, and nearly every major Protestant denomination".

Hermias

Saint Hermias of Comana, an early saint and martyr of the Eastern Orthodox Church

John the Dwarf

His feast is celebrated on October 17 in the Roman Catholic Church, on 20 Paopi at the Coptic Orthodox Church and on November 9 in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Koukouli

Koukoulion, a traditional headdress worn by monks in the Eastern Orthodox Church

Kurt Schork

He filed the story Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo, about a young couple, Boško Brkic and Admira Ismic, an Eastern Orthodox Bosnian Serb young man and Muslim Bosniak girl killed during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Mehmed III

His third oldest son, Yahya, is of interest to some because he reportedly converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and campaigned for a good part of his life to gain the Ottoman Imperial throne, to which his younger brother Ahmed I succeeded to in 1603.

Nikodim

Saint Nikodim I (died 1325), Eastern Orthodox saint, 10th Metropolitan of Peć and Archbishop of the Serbs

Panteley

St. Panteleimon's Cathedral - a large Eastern Orthodox cathedral in the Kievan neighbourhood of Theophania.

Peter VII of Alexandria

Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria (1949–2004), Eastern Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria

Religion in Austria

The largest group of Eastern Orthodox in Austria are Serbs.

Richard Cartwright Austin

In the 1970s and 1980s, Austin spoke to Protestant, Catholic, Evangelical and Eastern Orthodox groups across the United States, and trained young ministers in environmental awareness through the ecumenical Appalachian Ministries Educational Resource Center in Berea, Kentucky.

Saint Justinian

Byzantine emperor Justinian I (483–565), saint in the Eastern Orthodox tradition

Western Rite

Western Rite Orthodoxy, Churches in communion with other Eastern Orthodox Churches who use a traditionally Western liturgical format