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Chisholm, Australian Capital Territory

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, Anglican, no religion, Uniting, Presbyterian, Buddhist, Muslim, Lutheran and Orthodox Christian.

Christianity in Bahrain

The majority of Christian Bahraini citizens tend to be Orthodox Christians, with the largest church by membership being the Greek Orthodox Church.

George Antonius

Born in Deir al Qamar in a Lebanese Orthodox Christian family, he served as a civil servant in the British Mandate of Palestine.

Jezera, Zenica

Heavily populated by the Orthodox Christian inhabitants before the war, Jezera's demographic structure drastically changed during and following the war.

Kabarday

Some of the Kabardians living in North Ossetian Republic's Mozdok district and the southern part of the neighbouring Kursky district of Stavropol Krai are Orthodox Christians, whereas the other part of which are Sunni Muslims as well as Kabardians of Kabardino-Balkar Republic who belong mainly to Sunni Muslim faith, with a Habze minority.

Kusići, Zenica

Jezera's Orthodox Christian Kusići population left their homes; the area's borders have been redrawn and the village is now under the jurisdiction of the Zenica municipality, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Macarthur, Australian Capital Territory

The most popular religious affiliations in descending order are Catholic, Anglican, no religion, Uniting, Presbyterian and Orthodox Christian.

Philip Zimmerman

An Orthodox Christian, he has created hundreds of religious icons for churches and private collectors throughout the world.

Trebević

In March 2008, a Bosnian Serb organization Savez logoraša Republike Srpske (Association of Bosnian Serb War Prisoners), led by Branislav Dukić, announced its intention to erect a giant 26-meter (85 foot) high Orthodox Christian cross at the part of the mountain on Republika Srpska territory in order to commemorate the Serb victims in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.


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Beliefs and practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

However, teachings of the LDS Church differ significantly in other ways and encompass a broad set of doctrines, so that the above mentioned denominations usually place the LDS Church outside the bounds of orthodox Christian teaching as summarized in the Nicene Creed.

Bishopric

Diocese, an ecclesiastical region run by a bishop in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, Anglican and some Lutheran churches

Eparchy of upper Karlovac

The important Orthodox Christian monasteries in the region are Gomirje near Ogulin and Komogovina between Glina and Kostajnica.

Esther Rose

Eugene Dennis Rose became the Orthodox Christian Hieromonk Seraphim Rose.

Greeks in Syria

In addition to the Greek Orthodox Christian population there are also about 8,000 Greek-speaking Muslims of Cretan origin in Al-Hamidiyah, Syria and 7,000 people of Greek Muslim descent in Tripoli, Lebanon.

Kirill Pavlov

Cyril Pavlov (born 1919), Russian Orthodox Christian mystic, elder, wonder-worker and Archimandrite

Korean Orthodox Church

Additionally, in 2006 the government of North Korea supported the establishment of at least one Orthodox Christian parish (of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate) in the capital Pyongyang.

Manton, California

The town is also the home, as of June 2006, of the St. John of San Francisco Monastery, an Orthodox Christian men's monastery belonging to the Diocese of the West of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).

Nikolay Fyodorov

Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher and futurist

Ostrog

Ostrog monastery, a Serbian Orthodox Christian monastery in Montenegro

Piana degli Albanesi

In 1482-1485, after several attacks from the Ottoman Empire, the Orthodox Christian Albanians were forced to the Adriatic coast where they hired ships from Republic of Venice and escaped by sailing managed to advance up to reach Sicily.

Schmemann

Alexander Schmemann (1921-1983), Orthodox Christian priest, teacher, and writer

Sergei Nikolaevich Trubetskoy

He became an Orthodox Christian, and also an adherent of the Slavophiles: his beliefs at that time were influenced by the writings of Aleksey Khomyakov.

The Divine Legation of Moses

As its full title makes clear, it is a conservative defence of orthodox Christian belief against deism, by means of an apparent paradox: the afterlife is not mentioned in terms in the Pentateuch (i.e. Torah – see Jewish eschatology#"The world to come"), making Mosaic Judaism distinctive among ancient religions; from which, Warburton argues, it is seen that Moses received a divine revelation.

William Hawi

In 1952, the Lebanese Phalange put William Hawi up for the Beirut Municipal Council in the Achrafieh-Rmeil region for the Orthodox Christian seat, where he obtained the largest number of votes.