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Eastern Church
That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church It became estranged from the Western or Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque and a separation begun in the latter part of the 9th century became final in 1054 The Eastern Church consists of twelve thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included mutually independent churches including among these the Hellenic Church or Church of Greece and the Russian Church using the vernacular or some ancient form of it in divine service and varying in many points of detail but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople or ecumenical patriarch whose position is not one of supremacy but of precedence th...
Russian Church
The established church of the Russian empire up to the revolution of 1917 at which time the ruling Communist party tried to suppress all religious worship The czar was the nominal head of the church but he never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology and dogma It still forms a portion by far the largest of the Orthodox Eastern Church and is governed by the Patriarch and the Holy Synod In 1988 the church with official approval celebrated the 1000 year anniversary of the baptism of Russia After breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 the Russian Church began to regain some its old influence in Russian life and the government turned over some of the confiscated churches back to church control The Russian Church was recognized anew as the official church of Russia with special priveleges by an act of the Russian Duma in 1997 The Metropolitan of Moscow as Patriarch of the church is regarded as the first among equals in order of deference among bishops of the church...
Ecclesiarch
An official of the Eastern Church resembling a sacrist in the Western Church...
Exarch
A viceroy in Ravenna the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors in the Eastern Church the superior over several monasteries in the modern Greek Church a deputy of the patriarch who visits the clergy investigates ecclesiastical cases etc...
VerbarFilioque
The Latin for ldquoand from the Sonrdquo equivalent to et filio inserted by the third council of Toledo a d 589 in the clause qui ex Patre procedit who proceedeth from the Father of the Niceno Constantinopolitan Creed a d 381 which makes a creed state that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father Hence the doctrine itself not admitted by the Eastern Church...
Melchite
One of a sect chiefly in Syria and Egypt which acknowledges the authority of the pope but adheres to the liturgy and ceremonies of the Eastern Church...
Retrochoir
Any extension of a church behind the high altar as a chapel also in an apsidal church all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar...
Prothesis
A credence table so called by the Eastern or Greek Church...
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