Orthodox eastern church Sentence Examples

The Orthodox Eastern Church in Hungary is subject to the authority of the metropolitan of Carlowitz and the archbishop of Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt); under the former are the bishops of Bacs, Buda, Temesvar, Versecz and Pakracz, and under the latter the bishops of Arad and Karansebes.

The supreme governing body in the Russian branch of the Orthodox Eastern Church is known as the Holy Synod.

The Roman Catholic Church holds his festival on the 3rd of February, the Orthodox Eastern Church on the 11th.

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In 1902 there were 50,000 church members; in 1910, 67,043 the total Protestant community in 1910 was about ioo,000, and had an influence out of all proportion to its numbers; the Roman Church was estimated at 79,000, and the Orthodox Eastern Church (Russian) at 30,000.

He was the first great name in the Orthodox Eastern Church since 1453, and dominates its history in the 17th century.

In the Roman Catholic Church his festival is on the 19th of July, in the Orthodox Eastern Church on the 8th of May.

In the Orthodox Eastern Church "the holy Josaph, son of Abener, king of India" is allotted the 26th of August.

At the present day, then, the Orthodox Eastern Church consists of twelve mutually independent churches (or thirteen if we reckon the Bulgarian Church), using their own language in divine service (or some ancient form of it, as in Russia) and varying not a little in points of detail, but standing in full communion with one another, and united as equals in what has been described as one great ecclesiastical federation.

The Orthodox Eastern Church might seem to have succeeded beyond all others.

The same sort of ecclesiastical character came also to be attached to the tsars 1 of Russia, who - especially in their relations with the Orthodox Eastern Church - ma y vindicate for themselves (though the sultans of Turkey have disputed the claim) the succession to the East Roman emperors (see Empire).