Australian English Meaning of eastern church
Eastern church
Other Australian English words related to Eastern church
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Nearest Words of eastern church
- eastern chipmunk => Eastern chipmunk
- eastern chinquapin => Eastern chinquapin
- eastern chimpanzee => Eastern chimpanzee
- eastern catholicism => Eastern Catholicism
- eastern => eastern
- easterly => easterly
- easterling => Easterling
- easter sunday => Easter Sunday
- easter lily vine => Easter lily vine
- easter lily => Easter lily
- eastern coral snake => eastern coral snake
- eastern cottontail => Eastern cottontail
- eastern cottonwood => Eastern cottonwood
- eastern cricket frog => Eastern cricket frog
- eastern dasyure => Eastern quoll
- eastern desert => eastern desert
- eastern fence lizard => Eastern fence lizard
- eastern flowering dogwood => Flowering dogwood
- eastern fox squirrel => Eastern grey squirrel
- eastern gray squirrel => Eastern grey squirrel
Definitions and Meaning of eastern church in English
eastern church (n)
derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites
the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire
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 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), the patriarch of Alexandria, the patriarch of Jerusalem, the patriarch of Antioch, and the Holy Synod of Russia. The accepts the first seven ecumenical councils (and is hence styled only schismatic, not heretical, by the Roman Catholic Church), has as its creed the Niceno-Constantinopolitan (without the later addition of the filioque, wh
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Eastern church
derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites, the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine EmpireThat portion of the Christian church
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eastern chipmunk => Eastern chipmunk, eastern chinquapin => Eastern chinquapin, eastern chimpanzee => Eastern chimpanzee, eastern catholicism => Eastern Catholicism, eastern => eastern,
