German Meaning of eastern church
Ostkirche
Other German words related to Ostkirche
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Nearest Words of eastern church
- eastern chipmunk => Östliches Streifenhörnchen
- eastern chinquapin => Östlicher Chinquapin
- eastern chimpanzee => Östlicher Schimpanse
- eastern catholicism => Ostkatholische Kirchen
- eastern => östlich
- easterly => östlich
- easterling => Osterlinge
- easter sunday => Ostersonntag
- easter lily vine => Osterlilie
- easter lily => Osterlilie
- eastern coral snake => Östliche Korallenschlange
- eastern cottontail => Östliches Baumwollschwanzkaninchen
- eastern cottonwood => Amerikanische Schwarzpappel
- eastern cricket frog => Östlicher Grillenfrosch
- eastern dasyure => Östliches Raubbeutler
- eastern desert => östliche Wüste
- eastern fence lizard => Östliche Zaun-Eidechse
- eastern flowering dogwood => Blühender Hartriegel
- eastern fox squirrel => Grauhörnchen
- eastern gray squirrel => Östliches Grauhörnchen
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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Ostkirche
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
No synonyms found.
No antonyms found.
eastern chipmunk => Östliches Streifenhörnchen, eastern chinquapin => Östlicher Chinquapin, eastern chimpanzee => Östlicher Schimpanse, eastern catholicism => Ostkatholische Kirchen, eastern => östlich,
