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• Abraham the Great of Kashkar
  Abraham the Great of Kashkar
  Abraham the Great of Kashkar was the father of the Assyrian monastic revival in the 6th century. He is hailed as a doctor and saint of the Assyrian Church of the East....
  
  
• Abuna
  Abuna
  Also see Leaders of ChristianityAbun is the honorific title used for any bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as well as of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church...
  
  
• Albanian Greek-Catholic Church
• Albanian Orthodox Church
  Albanian Orthodox Church
  The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania is one of the newest autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. It declared its autocephaly in 1922, and gained recognition from the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1937....
  
  
• Alexandrian Rite
  Alexandrian Rite
  The Alexandrian Rite is officially called the Liturgy of Saint Mark, traditionally regarded as the first bishop of Alexandria. The Alexandrian Rite contains elements from the liturgy of Saint Basil, Cyril the Great, and Saint Gregory Nazianzus...
  
  
• Ancient Church of the East
  Ancient Church of the East
  The Ancient Church of the East was established in 1968. It follows the traditions of one of the oldest Christian churches, the Church of the East, whose origins trace back to the See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in central Mesopotamia...
  
  
• Antiochene Rite
  Antiochene Rite
  Antiochene Rite designates the family of liturgies originally used in the Patriarchate of Antioch.-Liturgies in the Antiochene Rite:The family of liturgies include the Apostolic Constitutions; then that of St. James in Greek, the Syriac Liturgy of St. James, and the other Syriac Anaphoras. The line...
  
  
• Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
  Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
  The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America is the sole jurisdiction of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in the United States and Canada with exclusive jurisdiction over the Antiochian Orthodox faithful in those countries, though these faithful were originally cared for by the...
  
  
• Antiochian Orthodox Church
  Antiochian Orthodox Church
  The Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, also known as the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East and the Antiochian Orthodox Church , is an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity...
  
  
• Archimandrite
  Archimandrite
  The title Archimandrite , primarily used in the Eastern Orthodox and the Eastern Catholic churches, originally referred to a superior abbot whom a bishop appointed to supervise...
  
  
• Armenian Apostolic Church
  Armenian Apostolic Church
  The Armenian Apostolic Church is the world's oldest National Church, is part of Oriental Orthodoxy, and is one of the most ancient Christian communities. Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as its official religion in 301 AD, in establishing this church...
  
  
• Armenian Catholic Church
  Armenian Catholic Church
  |- |The Armenian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church sui juris in union with the other Eastern Rite, Oriental Rite and Latin Rite Catholics who accept the Bishop of Rome as spiritual leader of the Church. It is regulated by Eastern canon law...
  
  
• Armenian Catholic Patriarchs
• Assyrian Church of the East
  Assyrian Church of the East
  The Assyrian Church of the East, officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East ʻIttā Qaddishtā w-Shlikhāitā Qattoliqi d-Madnĕkhā d-Āturāyē), is a Syriac Church historically centered in Mesopotamia. It is one of the churches that claim continuity with the historical...
  
  
• Assyrian Evangelical Church
  Assyrian Evangelical Church
  The Assyrian Evangelical Church is a Presbyterian church in the Middle East that attained a status of ecclesiastical independence from the Presbyterian mission in Iran in 1870.There are several Assyrian Evangelical churches in the diaspora, e.g...
  
  
• Athenagoras (Patriarch)
• Autocephaly
  Autocephaly
  Autocephaly , in hierarchical Christian churches and especially Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, is the status of a hierarchical church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop...
  
  
• Avvakum
  Avvakum
  Avvakum Petrov was a Russian protopope of Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church...
  
  

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• Babai the Great
  Babai the Great
  Babai the Great was an early church father of the Church of the East. He set several of the foundational pillars of the Church, revived the monastic movement, and formulated its Christology in a systematic way. He served as an unofficial head of the Nestorian Church from 611 to 628 AD, leaving a...
  
  
• Baptism of Kievan Rus'
  Baptism of Kievan Rus'
  The Christianization of Kievan Rus took place in several stages. In early 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople announced to other Orthodox patriarchs that the Rus', baptised by his bishop, took to Christianity with particular enthusiasm...
  
  
• Baradaeus, Jacob
  Jacob Baradaeus
  Jacob Baradaeus was Bishop of Edessa from 543 until his death. One of the most important figures in the history of the Syriac Orthodox Church, and the Oriental Orthodox churches generally, he was a defender of the Monophysite movement in a time when its strength was declining...
  
  
• Beglopopovtsy
  Beglopopovtsy
  Beglopopovtsy was one of the denominations among the Popovtsy, who belonged to the Old Believers....
  
  
• Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
  Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
  The Belarusian Greek Catholic Church , sometimes called, in reference to its Byzantine Rite, the Belarusian Byzantine Catholic Church, is the heir within Belarus of the Union of Brest...
  
  
• Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy
  Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy
  Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy is the first full and stable church hierarchy created by the Old Believers.The hierarchy was created in 1846 by acceptance of the Greek Metropolitan Ambrose...
  
  
• Belokrinitskoe Soglasie
  Belokrinitskoe Soglasie
  Belokrinitskoe soglasie is the largest and one of the most 'temperate' and 'optimistic' denominations among the Popovtsy Old Believers. The name derives from the name of the village Belokrinitsa, where the full hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Oldrite Church was established.From the end of 1840,...
  
  
• Blachernitissa
  Blachernitissa
  Blachernitissa , also called Theotokos of Blachernae or Our Lady of Blachernae , is a 7th-century encaustic icon representing the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary...
  
  
• British Orthodox Church
  British Orthodox Church
  The British Orthodox Church is a small Oriental Orthodox jurisdiction, canonically part of the Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria. Its mission is to the people of the British Isles, and though it is Orthodox in its faith and practice, it remains British in its ethos...
  
  
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church
  Bulgarian Orthodox Church
  The Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Bulgarian Patriarchate is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with some 6.5 million members in the Republic of Bulgaria and between 1.5 and 2.0 million members in a number of European countries, the Americas and Australia...
  
  
• Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh
  Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh
  The Byzantine Catholic Metropolia of Pittsburgh is an autonomous Byzantine Rite particular church of the Catholic Church, originally serving members of the Ruthenian Catholic Church and their descendants in the United States...
  
  
• Byzantine Discalced Carmelites
  Byzantine Discalced Carmelites
  The Byzantine Discalced Carmelites are a community of cloistered nuns of the Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic Church living committed to a life of prayer, according to the eremitic tradition and lifestyle of the Discalced Carmelites....
  
  
• Byzantine Rite
  Byzantine Rite
  The Byzantine Rite, sometimes called the Rite of Constantinople or Constantinopolitan Rite is the liturgical rite used currently by all the Eastern Orthodox Churches, by the Greek Catholic Churches , and by the Protestant Ukrainian Lutheran Church...
  
  

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• Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Moscow)
  Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Moscow)
  The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is a Church in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskva River, a few blocks south-west of the Kremlin...
  
  
• Cathedral of the Dormition
  Cathedral of the Dormition
  The Cathedral of the Dormition is a Russian Orthodox church dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos. It is located on the north side of Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin in Russia, where a narrow alley separates the north from the Patriarch's Palace with the Twelve Apostles Church....
  
  
• Catholicos of the East
  Catholicos of the East
  Catholicos of the East is an ecclesiastical title used historically by the Church of the East and the Syriac Orthodox Church, and now used in successor churches. The title Catholicos, or "universal leader", is used in several Eastern Christian churches and implies a degree of sovereignty and...
  
  
• Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia
  Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia
  Catholicos–Patriarch has been the title of the heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1010. The first Catholicos–Patriarch of All Georgia was Melkisedek I...
  
  
• Catholic-Orthodox joint declaration of 1965
  Catholic-Orthodox joint declaration of 1965
  The Catholic-Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965 was read out on 7 December 1965 simultaneously at a public meeting of the Second Vatican Council in Rome and at a special ceremony in Istanbul. It withdrew the exchange of excommunications between prominent ecclesiastics in the Roman see and the...
  
  
• Celtic Orthodox Church
  Celtic Orthodox Church
  The Celtic Orthodox Church is an indigenous, Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Europe with representation in the United Kingdom since 1998. The head of the Church carries the title of Metropolitan of Dol and titular Bishop of Iona, with residence in Saint-Dolay The Celtic Orthodox Church is an...
  
  
• Catholic Chaldean Patriarchs of Babylon
• Chaldean Catholic Church
  Chaldean Catholic Church
  The Chaldean Catholic Church , is an Eastern Syriac particular church of the Catholic Church, maintaining full communion with the Bishop of Rome and the rest of the Catholic Church...
  
  
• Chaldean Syrian Church
  Chaldean Syrian Church
  The Chaldean Syrian Church is an Indian Christian church that is currently an archbishopric of the Assyrian Church of the East. Its members are part of the St. Thomas Christian community, who trace their origins to the evangelical activities of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. They are almost...
  
  
• Christians in Iran
• Chora Church
  Chora Church
  The Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora is considered to be one of the most beautiful examples of a Byzantine church. The church is situated in Istanbul, in the Edirnekapı neighborhood, which lies in the western part of the municipality of Fatih...
  
  
• Church of Greece
  Church of Greece
  The Church of Greece , part of the wider Greek Orthodox Church, is one of the autocephalous churches which make up the communion of Orthodox Christianity...
  
  
• Church of the Holy Apostles
  Church of the Holy Apostles
  The Church of the Holy Apostles , also known as the Imperial Polyandreion, was a Christian church built in Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, in 550. It was second only to the Church of the Holy Wisdom among the great churches of the capital...
  
  
• Church of the Tithes
  Church of the Tithes
  The Church of the Tithes or Church of the Dormition of the Virgin was the first stone church in Kiev. It was built by the order of Grand Prince Vladimir the Great between 989 and 996 by Byzantine and local workers to commemorate the Baptism of Kievan Rus' and was originally named the "Church of...
  
  
• Church Slavonic language
• Coptic Christianity
  Coptic Christianity
  The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for the largest Christian church in Egypt and the Middle East. The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, when it took a different...
  
  
• Coptic Catholic Church
  Coptic Catholic Church
  The Coptic Catholic Church is an Alexandrian Rite particular Church in full communion with the Pope of Rome. Historically, Coptic Catholics represent a schism from the Coptic Orthodox Church, leaving that church in order to come into full communion with the Bishop of Rome.The current Coptic...
  
  
• Coptic language
  Coptic language
  Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...
  
  
• Coptic Orthodox Church
• Cypriot Orthodox Church
  Cypriot Orthodox Church
  The Church of Cyprus is an autocephalous Greek church within the communion of Orthodox Christianity. It is one of the oldest Eastern Orthodox autocephalous churches, achieving independence from the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East in 431...
  
  
• Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church
  Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church
  The Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia is a self-governing body of the Eastern Orthodox Church that territorially covers the countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia...
  
  

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• Danilov Monastery
  Danilov Monastery
  Danilov Monastery, in full Svyato-Danilov Monastery or Holy Danilov Monastery , is a monastery on the right bank of the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia...
  
  
• Dayro d-Mor Hananyo
  Dayro d-Mor Hananyo
  Deyr ul-Zafaran Monastery is an important Syriac Orthodox monastery near the city of Mardin in Turkey. The monastery is located in the area known as Tur Abdin, the motherland of the Assyrian/Syriacs. It is usually better known by its nickname, the 'Saffron Monastery' . This name is derived from...
  
  
• Dayro d-Mor Gabriel
  Dayro d-Mor Gabriel
  Dayro d-Mor Gabriel is the oldest surviving Syriac Orthodox monastery in the world...
  
  
• Desert Fathers
  Desert Fathers
  The Desert Fathers were hermits, ascetics, monks, and nuns who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt beginning around the third century AD. The most well known was Anthony the Great, who moved to the desert in 270–271 and became known as both the father and founder of desert monasticism...
  
  
• Divine Liturgy
  Divine Liturgy
  Divine Liturgy is the common term for the Eucharistic service of the Byzantine tradition of Christian liturgy. As such, it is used in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. Armenian Christians, both of the Armenian Apostolic Church and of the Armenian Catholic Church, use the same term...
  
  
• Donskoy Monastery
  Donskoy Monastery
  Donskoy Monastery is a major monastery in Moscow, founded in 1591 in commemoration of Moscow's deliverance from an imminent threat of Khan Kazy-Girey’s invasion...
  
  
• Dormition of the Theotokos
  Dormition of the Theotokos
  The Dormition of the Theotokos is a Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches which commemorates the "falling asleep" or death of the Theotokos , and her bodily resurrection before being taken up into heaven. It is celebrated on August 15 The Dormition...
  
  

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• East Syrian Rite
  East Syrian Rite
  The East Syrian Rite is a Christian liturgy, also known as the Assyro-Chaldean Rite, Assyrian or Chaldean Rite, and the Persian Rite although it originated in Edessa, Mesopotamia...
  
  
• Eastern Orthodox Church
  Eastern Orthodox Church
  The Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian denomination in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents mainly in the countries of Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece,...
  
  
• Eastern Orthodox Church calendar
• Eastern Orthodox Church organization
  Eastern Orthodox Church organization
  This article covers the organization of the Eastern Orthodox Churches rather than the doctrines, traditions, practices, or other aspects of Eastern Orthodoxy...
  
  
• Eastern Rite
  Eastern Christianity
  Eastern Christianity comprises the Christian traditions and churches that developed in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, Northeastern Africa, India and parts of the Far East over several centuries of religious antiquity. The term is generally used in Western Christianity to...
  
  
• Eastern Rite Catholic Churches
  Eastern Rite Catholic Churches
  The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous, self-governing particular churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. Together with the Latin Church, they compose the worldwide Catholic Church...
  
  
• Ecumenical council
  Ecumenical council
  An ecumenical council is a conference of ecclesiastical dignitaries and theological experts convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice....
  
  
• Ecumenical Patriarch
• Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs
  Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs
  The Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs was a letter sent in May, 1848 by the patriarchs of the Orthodox Church in reply to Pope Pius IX's Epistle to the Easterns...
  
  
• Eparchy of Križevci
  Eparchy of Križevci
  The Eparchy of Križevci, sometimes referred to as the Croatian Greek Catholic Church or the Croatian Byzantine Catholic Church, is a recognized sui iuris Catholic Church listed in the Annuario Pontificio among the Eastern Catholic Churches of Constantinopolitan or Byzantine tradition as the Church...
  
  
• Ephrem the Syrian
  Ephrem the Syrian
  Ephrem the Syrian was a Syriac and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century. He is venerated by Christians throughout the world, and especially in the Syriac Orthodox Church, as a saint.Ephrem wrote a wide variety of hymns, poems, and sermons in verse, as well as...
  
  
• Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church
  Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church
  The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church is an Oriental Orthodox church. Its autocephaly was recognised by Pope Shenouda III after Eritrea gained its independence in 1993.-Origins:...
  
  
• Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
  Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
  The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is the predominant Oriental Orthodox Christian church in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Church was administratively part of the Coptic Orthodox Church until 1959, when it was granted its own Patriarch by Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All...
  
  

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• Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
  Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
  The Georgian Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church is an autocephalous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since the 4th century AD, Georgian Orthodoxy has been the state religion of Georgia, and it remains the country's largest religious institution....
  
  
• Great Lent
  Great Lent
  Great Lent, or the Great Fast, is the most important fasting season in the church year in Eastern Christianity, which prepares Christians for the greatest feast of the church year, Pascha . In many ways Great Lent is similar to Lent in Western Christianity...
  
  
• Greek-Catholic Melkite Church
• Greek Old Calendarists
  Greek Old Calendarists
  Greek Old Calendarists are groups that separated from the Orthodox Church of Greece or from the Patriarchate of Constantinople, precipitated by disagreement over the abandonment of the traditional Julian Calendar.- History :Up until the early 20th century, the Eastern Orthodox Church used the...
  
  
• Greek Orthodox Church
  Eastern Orthodox Church
  The Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian denomination in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents mainly in the countries of Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece,...
  
  
• Greek Church of Alexandria
• Gregory Palamas
  Gregory Palamas
  Gregory Palamas was a monk of Mount Athos in Greece and later the Archbishop of Thessaloniki known as a preeminent theologian of Hesychasm. The teachings embodied in his writings defending Hesychasm against the attack of Barlaam are sometimes referred to as Palamism, his followers as Palamites...
  
  

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• Herman of Alaska
  Herman of Alaska
  Saint Herman of Alaska was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.-Biography:Saint Herman was born in the town of Serpukhov in the Moscow Diocese around 1756...
  
  
• Hesychasm
  Hesychasm
  Hesychasm is an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and some of the Eastern Catholic Churches, such as the Byzantine Rite, practised by the Hesychast Hesychasm is an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and some of the Eastern Catholic Churches,...
  
  
• Hilandar
  Hilandar
  Hilandar Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos in Greece. It was founded in 1198 by the first Serbian Archbishop Saint Sava and his father, Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja of the medieval Serbian principality of Raška...
  
  
• History of Christianity in Ukraine
  History of Christianity in Ukraine
  The History of Christianity in Ukraine dates back to the earliest centuries of the apostolic church. It has remained the dominant religion in the country since its acceptance in 988 by Vladimir the Great , who instated it as the state religion of Kievan Rus', a medieval East Slavic state.Although...
  
  
• History of the Church of the East in Asia
• Holy Fire
  Holy Fire
  The Holy Fire is described by Orthodox Christians as a miracle that occurs every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday, the day preceding Orthodox Easter. It is considered by many to be the longest-attested annual miracle in the Christian world...
  
  
• Holy Land
  Holy Land
  The Holy Land is a term which in Judaism refers to the Kingdom of Israel as defined in the Tanakh. For Jews, the Land's identifiction of being Holy is defined in Judaism by its differentiation from other lands by virtue of the practice of Judaism often possible only in the Land of Israel...
  
  
• Holy Synod
  Holy Synod
  In several of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches and Eastern Catholic Churches, the patriarch or head bishop is elected by a group of bishops called the Holy Synod...
  
  
• Holy Synod of Jerusalem
  Holy Synod of Jerusalem
  The Holy Synod of Jerusalem is the senior ruling body of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher.The Synod consists of 18 members nominated by the Patriarch in a session of the Holy Synod itself...
  
  

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• Jacobite Orthodox Church
• Japanese Orthodox Church
  Japanese Orthodox Church
  The Japanese Orthodox Church or The Orthodox Church in Japan is an autonomous church of Eastern Orthodoxy under the omophorion of the Russian Orthodox Church.-History:...
  
  
• Jerusalem Patriarchate in America
  Jerusalem Patriarchate in America
  The Jerusalem Patriarchate in America comprised the Orthodox churches under the omophorion of Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, represented in the Americas by Archbishop Damaskinos of Jaffa....
  
  
• John Chrysostom
  John Chrysostom
  John Chrysostom , Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and his ascetic...
  
  
• John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco
• Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery
  Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery
  Joseph Volokolamsk Monastery is a monastery for men, located 17 km northeast of Volokolamsk, Moscow Oblast. In the 15th and 16th century, it rivaled the Trinity as the most authoritative and wealthy monastery in Russia...
  
  

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• Kazan Cathedral
• Kiev Pechersk Lavra
  Kiev Pechersk Lavra
  Kiev Pechersk Lavra or Kyiv Pechersk Lavra , also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery which gave its name to one of the city districts where it is located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine....
  
  
• Khomyakov, Aleksey
  Aleksey Khomyakov
  Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov was a Russian religious poet who co-founded the Slavophile movement along with Ivan Kireyevsky, and became one of its most distinguished theoreticians....
  
  
• Khutyn Monastery
  Khutyn Monastery
  Khutyn Monastery of Saviour's Transfiguration and of St. Varlaam used to be the holiest monastery of the medieval Novgorod Republic. The monastery is situated on the right bank of the Volkhov River some 10 km north northeast of Velikiy Novgorod, in the village of Khutyn, whose name is perhaps...
  
  
• Knanaya
  Knanaya
  The Knanaya also known as Q'nanaya, Q'nai, Kanai, or Thekkumbagar, are endogamous Jews who settled in Kerala, India. Their origins are unclear and are hotly disputed by academic scholars...
  
  

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• Latin Patriarch of Alexandria
  Latin Patriarch of Alexandria
  This is a list of The Latin Patriarchs of Alexandria established in 1215 during the pontificate of Pope Innocent III. This titular office was abolished in 1964. His patriachal seat in Rome was the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls....
  
  
• Latin Patriarch of Antioch
  Latin Patriarch of Antioch
  The Latin Patriarch of Antioch was an office created in 1098 by Bohemund, founder of the Principality of Antioch, one of the crusader states....
  
  
• Latin Patriarch of Constantinople
  Latin Patriarch of Constantinople
  The Latin Patriarch of Constantinople was an office established as a result of Crusader activity in the Near East. The title should not be confused with that of the Patriarch of Constantinople, an office which existed before and after....
  
  
• Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
  Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
  The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is the title possessed by the Latin Rite Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem. The Archdiocese of Jerusalem has jurisdiction for all Latin Rite Catholics in Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Jordan and Cyprus...
  
  
• Lavra
  Lavra
  In Orthodox Christianity and certain other Eastern Christian communities Lavra or Laura originally meant a cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the center...
  
  
• Lestovka
  Lestovka
  Lestovka or vervitsa is a special type of prayer rope made of leather, once in general use in old Russia, and is still used by Russian Old Believers today, such as the Russian Orthodox Oldritualist Church.-Form and symbolism:...
  
  
• Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church
  Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church
  The Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church is the Romanian based jurisdiction of the Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy ....
  
  
• List of Abunas
• List of Archbishops of Athens
• List of Armenian Catholicoi of Cilicia
• List of Armenian Patriarchs of Constantinople
• List of Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem
• List of Catholicoi of Armenia
• List of Coptic Orthodox Popes of Alexandria
• List of Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Alexandria
• List of Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchs of Antioch
• List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow
• List of Orthodox jurisdictions in North America
• List of Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch
• List of Patriarchs of Alexandria
• List of Patriarchs of Antioch
• List of Patriarchs of Constantinople
• List of Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch
• Liturgy of Addai and Mari
• Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
  Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts
  The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, informally Presanctified Liturgy, is an Eastern Christian liturgical service for the distribution of communion on the weekdays of Great Lent....
  
  

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• Macedonian Orthodox Church
  Macedonian Orthodox Church
  The Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric or just Macedonian Orthodox Church is the body of Christians who are united under the Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia, exercising jurisdiction over Macedonian Orthodox Christians in the Republic of Macedonia and in exarchates in the Macedonian...
  
  
• Major archbishop
  Major Archbishop
  right|200 px|thumb|Archbishop [[Sviatoslav Shevchuk]], Major Archbishop of Kyiv-HalychIn the Eastern Catholic Churches, major archbishop is a title for an hierarch to whose archiepiscopal see is granted the same jurisdiction in his autonomous particular Church that an Eastern patriarch has in...
  
  
• Malabar Independent Syrian Church
  Malabar Independent Syrian Church
  The Malabar Independent Syrian Church, also known as the Thozhiyur Sabah , is a Christian church centred in Kerala, India. It is one of the churches of the Saint Thomas Christian community, which traces its origins to the evangelical activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century.Considered part...
  
  
• Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church
• Mar Thoma Church
  Mar Thoma Church
  The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church also known as the Mar Thoma Church is a Christian denomination based in the state of Kerala in southwestern India. It has an entirely different identity when compared with other Churches in India. Most Christian churches around the world are divided into...
  
  
• Mark the Evangelist
  Mark the Evangelist
  Mark the Evangelist is the traditional author of the Gospel of Mark. He is one of the Seventy Disciples of Christ, and the founder of the Church of Alexandria, one of the original four main sees of Christianity....
  
  
• Maron, John
  John Maron
  John Maron , died 707 was a Syriac monk, and the first Maronite Patriarch. He is revered as a saint by the Catholic Church, and celebrated on March 2.-Early life:...
  
  
• Maronite Church
  Maronite Church
  The Syriac Maronite Church of Antioch is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See of Rome . It traces its heritage back to the community founded by Maron, a 4th-century Syriac monk venerated as a saint. The first Maronite Patriarch, John Maron, was elected in the late 7th...
  
  
• Metropolitan Cornelius
  Metropolitan Cornelius
  Metropolitan Cornelius of Petra is a senior bishop of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem. He was locum tenens of the Church in 2001, following the death of Patriarch Diodoros I...
  
  
• Miaphysitism
  Miaphysitism
  Miaphysitism is a Christological formula of the Oriental Orthodox Churches and of the various churches adhering to the first three Ecumenical Councils...
  
  
• Middle East Council of Churches
  Middle East Council of Churches
  After many years of preliminary moves, the Middle East Council of Churches was inaugurated in May 1974 at its First General Assembly in Nicosia, Cyprus. Initially it contained three "families" of Christian Churches in the Middle East, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches...
  
  
• Monolithic church
  Monolithic church
  A monolithic church or rock-hewn church is a church made from a single block of stone. They are one of the most basic forms of monolithic architecture....
  
  
• Monophysitism
  Monophysitism
  Monophysitism , or Monophysiticism, is the Christological position that Jesus Christ has only one nature, his humanity being absorbed by his Deity...
  
  
• Mount Athos
  Mount Athos
  Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. A World Heritage Site, it is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms a self-governed monastic state within the sovereignty of the Hellenic Republic. Spiritually, Mount Athos comes under the direct jurisdiction of the...
  
  

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• Old Believers
  Old Believers
  In the context of Russian Orthodox church history, the Old Believers separated after 1666 from the official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652–66...
  
  
• Old calendarists
  Old calendarists
  The term Old Calendarist refers to any Orthodox Christian or any Orthodox Church body which uses the historic Julian calendar , and whose Church body is not in communion with the Orthodox Churches that use the New Calendar...
  
  
• Old Church Slavonic
  Old Church Slavonic
  Old Church Slavonic or Old Church Slavic was the first literary Slavic language, first developed by the 9th century Byzantine Greek missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius who were credited with standardizing the language and using it for translating the Bible and other Ancient Greek...
  
  
• Omophorion
  Omophorion
  In the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic liturgical tradition, the omophor is the distinguishing vestment of a bishop and the symbol of his spiritual and ecclesiastical authority...
  
  
• Optina Monastery
  Optina Monastery
  The Optina Hermitage is an Eastern Orthodox monastery for men near Kozelsk in Russia. In the 19th century, the Optina was the most important spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church and served as the model for several other monasteries, including the nearby Shamordino Convent...
  
  
• Oriental Orthodoxy
  Oriental Orthodoxy
  Oriental Orthodoxy is the faith of those Eastern Christian Churches that recognize only three ecumenical councils — the First Council of Nicaea, the First Council of Constantinople and the First Council of Ephesus. They rejected the dogmatic definitions of the Council of Chalcedon...
  
  
• Orientalium Ecclesiarum
  Orientalium Ecclesiarum
  Orientalium Ecclesiarum is the Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches from the Second Vatican Council. One of the shorter such documents, it was passed by the assembled bishops by a vote of 2,110 to 39 and promulgated by Pope Paul VI on November 21, 1964...
  
  
• Orthodox Church of Antioch
  Antiochian Orthodox Church
  The Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, also known as the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East and the Antiochian Orthodox Church , is an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity...
  
  
• Orthodox Church of Constantinople
• Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
  Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
  The Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem , also known as the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, is an autocephalous Orthodox Church within the wider communion of Orthodox Christianity. Headed by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, it is regarded by Orthodox Christians as the mother church of all of...
  
  
• Orthodox Church in America
  Orthodox Church in America
  The Orthodox Church in America is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in North America. Its primate is Metropolitan Jonah , who was elected on November 12, 2008, and was formally installed on December 28, 2008...
  
  
• Orthodox Church in Italy
  Orthodox Church in Italy
  The Orthodox Church in Italy is an effort to establish a national Orthodox church in Italy, bringing all the Orthodox parishes and missions under an Italian Metropolitan, but only some independent groups have adhered to it...
  
  
• Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric
  Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric
  The Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox archdiocese in the Republic of Macedonia...
  
  

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• Panagia
  Panagia
  Panagia , also transliterated Panayia or Panaghia, is one of the titles of Mary, the mother of Jesus, used especially in Orthodox Christianity....
  
  
• Patriarch Alexius II
  Patriarch Alexius II
  Patriarch Alexy II was the 15th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church....
  
  
• Patriarch Bartholomew I
• Patriarch Irenaios
  Patriarch Irenaios
  Irenaios Skopelitis was the 140th patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem from 2001 to 2005, though the dismissal was disputed...
  
  
• Patriarch of Alexandria
  Patriarch of Alexandria
  The Patriarch of Alexandria is the Archbishop of Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt. Historically, this office has included the designation of Pope , and did so earlier than that of the Bishop of Rome...
  
  
• Paulos (Abune)
  Abune Paulos
  Abune Paulos is Abuna and Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church . His full title is "His Holiness Abuna Paulos, Fifth Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Ichege of the See of St...
  
  
• Pimen I (Patriarch)
  Patriarch Pimen I
  Patriarch Pimen , was the 14th Patriarch of Moscow and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1971 to 1990. He was born in the town of Bogorodsk near Moscow....
  
  
• Pechersky Ascension Monastery
  Pechersky Ascension Monastery
  Pechersky Ascension Monastery is a monastery in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It is the principal monastery of the Nizny Novgorod Eparchy and the seat of the Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas.- History :...
  
  
• Polish Orthodox Church
  Polish Orthodox Church
  The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church, commonly known as the Polish Orthodox Church, , is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches in full communion...
  
  
• Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church
  Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church
  The Pomorian Old Orthodox Church is a branch of the priestless faction of the Old Believers, born of a schism within the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century.- Pomorian Agreement :...
  
  
• Popovtsy
  Popovtsy
  The Popovtsy, or Popovschina , were one of the two principal movements of the Old Believers, which was formed by the end of the 17th century in Russia.-Historical backgrounds:As none of the bishops joined the Old Believers The Popovtsy, or Popovschina (Поповцы, Поповщина in Russian; this name...
  
  
• Prosphora
  Prosphora
  A prosphoron is a small loaf of leavened bread used in Orthodox Christian and Greek Catholic liturgies. The plural form is prosphora...
  
  

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• Rogozhskoye cemetery
  Rogozhskoye Cemetery
  Rogozhskoe cemetery in Moscow, Russia, is the spiritual and administrative center of the largest Old Believers denomination, called the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church. Historically, the name cemetery was applied to the whole Old Believer community, with living quarters, cathedral, almshouses,...
  
  
• Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic
  Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic
  The Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic is an Eastern Catholic Church which is in full union with the Roman Catholic Church. It is ranked as a Major Archiepiscopal Church and uses the Byzantine liturgical rite in the Romanian language....
  
  
• Romanian Orthodox Church
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church. It is in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox churches, and is ranked seventh in order of precedence. The Primate of the church has the title of Patriarch...
  
  
• Rublev, Andrei
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Rublev is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes.-Biography:...
  
  
• Russian Catholic Church
  Russian Catholic Church
  The Russian Catholic Church is a Byzantine Rite church sui juris in full union with the Catholic Church. Historically it represents a schism from the Russian Orthodox Church. It is now in full communion with and subject to the authority of the Pope as defined by Eastern canon law...
  
  
• Russian icons
  Russian icons
  The use and making of icons entered Kievan Rus' following its conversion to Orthodox Christianity in 988 AD. As a general rule, these icons strictly followed models and formulas hallowed by Byzantine art, led from the capital in Constantinople...
  
  
• Russian Old-Orthodox Church
  Russian Old-Orthodox Church
  The Russian Old Orthodox Church is an Eastern Orthodox Church of the Old Believers tradition, born of a schism within the Russian Orthodox Church during the 17th century . This jurisdiction incorporated those Old Believer groups which refused to accept the authority of Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy,...
  
  
• Russian Orthodox Church
  Russian Orthodox Church
  The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...
  
  
• Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
• Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church
  Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church
  The Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church is an Eastern Orthodox Church of the Old Believers tradition, born from a schism within the Russian Orthodox Church following the liturgical reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the second half of 17th century...
  
  
• Ruthenian Catholic Church
  Ruthenian Catholic Church
  The Ruthenian Catholic Church is a sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church , which uses the Divine Liturgy of the Constantinopolitan Byzantine Eastern Rite. Its roots are among the Rusyns who lived in the region called Carpathian Ruthenia, in and around the Carpathian Mountains...
  
  

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• Sabbah, Michel
  Michel Sabbah
  Michel Sabbah was the Archbishop and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1987 to 2008.Sabbah began his priestly studies at the Latin Patriarchal Seminary of Beit Jala in October 1949 and was ordained a priest for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in June 1955. He was a parish priest for a few...
  
  
• Saint Basil's Cathedral
  Saint Basil's Cathedral
  The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat , popularly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral , is a Russian Orthodox church erected on the Red Square in Moscow in 1555–61. Built on the order of Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan, it marks the...
  
  
• Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
  Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
  Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in the city of Saint Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai Governorate. The monastery is Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
  
  
• Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev
  Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev
  Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev is an outstanding architectural monument of Kievan Rus'. Today, it is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first Ukrainian patrimony to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kiev Cave Monastery complex...
  
  
• Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod
  Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod
  The Cathedral of St. Sophia in the Kremlin in Veliky Novgorod is the cathedral church of the Archbishop of Novgorod and the mother church of the Novgorodian Eparchy.-History:...
  
  
• Saint Thomas Christians
  Saint Thomas Christians
  The Saint Thomas Christians are an ancient body of Christians from Kerala, India, who trace their origins to the evangelical activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. They are also known as "Nasranis" because they are followers of "Jesus of Nazareth". The term "Nasrani" is still used by St...
  
  
• Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius
  Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Bulgaria, Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they...
  
  
• Serbian Orthodox Church
  Serbian Orthodox Church
  The Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Christian churches, ranking sixth in order of seniority after Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Russia...
  
  
• Sergius (Tikhomirov) of Japan (Metropolitan)
  Metropolitan Sergius (Tikhomirov) of Japan
  Metropolitan Sergius of Japan was a Russian clergyman and monk of the Russian Orthodox Church and later Japanese Orthodox Church.- Early life :...
  
  
• Sobor
  Sobor
  A sobor is a council of bishops together with other clerical and lay delegates representing the church as a whole in matters of importance...
  
  
• Sorsky, Nil
  Nil Sorsky
  Nil Sorsky was a leader of the Russian medieval movement opposing ecclesiastic landownership . Nil Sorsky is venerated as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church. His feast day is on the anniversary of his repose on May 7.-Early life:Before becoming a monk, Nil Sorsky worked as a scribe and was...
  
  
• Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops in America
  Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops in America
  The Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas has been an Eastern Orthodox organization designed to help cooperation among the canonical Orthodox Christian jurisdictions to be found in the Americas...
  
  
• Starets
  Starets
  A starets is an elder of a Russian Orthodox monastery who functions as venerated adviser and teacher. Elders or spiritual fathers are charismatic spiritual leaders whose wisdom stems from God as obtained from ascetic experience...
  
  
• Studenica monastery
  Studenica monastery
  The Studenica monastery is a 12th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery situated 39 km southwest of Kraljevo, in central Serbia. It is one of the largest and richest Serb Orthodox monasteries....
  
  
• Sui iuris
  Sui iuris
  Sui iuris, commonly also spelled sui juris, is a Latin phrase that literally means “of one’s own laws”.-Secular law:In civil law the phrase sui juris indicates legal competence, the capacity to manage one’s own affairs...
  
  
• Synod of Diamper
  Synod of Diamper
  The Synod of Diamper, held at Udayamperoor/Diamper, is a diocesan synod by which Latin usages were formally adopted by the Christians of Saint Thomas. It was convened on June 20, 1599, under the leadership of Aleixo de Menezes, Archbishop of Goa. Archdeacon George was forced to comply with the...
  
  
• Syriac Catholic Church
  Syriac Catholic Church
  The Syriac Catholic Church is a Christian church in the Levant having practices and rites in common with the Syriac Orthodox Church. They are one of the Eastern Catholic Churches following the Antiochene rite, the Syriac tradition of Antioch, along with the Maronites and Syro-Malankara Christians...
  
  
• Syriac Christianity
  Syriac Christianity
  Syriac or Syrian Christianity , the Syriac-speaking Christians of Mesopotamia, comprises multiple Christian traditions of Eastern Christianity. With a history going back to the 1st Century AD, in modern times it is represented by denominations primarily in the Middle East and in Kerala, India....
  
  
• Syriac Orthodox Church
  Syriac Orthodox Church
  The Syriac Orthodox Church; is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Eastern Mediterranean, with members spread throughout the world. The Syriac Orthodox Church claims to derive its origin from one of the first Christian communities, established in Antioch by the Apostle St....
  
  
• Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
  Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
  The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See...
  
  
• Syro-Malabar Church

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• Tekle Haymanot
  Tekle Haymanot
  Tekle Haymanot or Takla Haymanot was an Ethiopian monk who founded a major monastery in his native province of Shewa...
  
  
• Teoctist
• Theodore of Mopsuestia
  Theodore of Mopsuestia
  Theodore the Interpreter was bishop of Mopsuestia from 392 to 428 AD. He is also known as Theodore of Antioch, from the place of his birth and presbyterate...
  
  
• Theodore II of Alexandria (Patriarch)
  Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria
  Theodore II is the current Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa...
  
  
• Theofilos III of Jerusalem (Patriarch)
• Theotokos of St. Theodore
  Theotokos of St. Theodore
  Fyodorovskaya Theotokos , also known as Our Lady of St. Theodore and the Black Virgin Mary of Russia is the patron icon of the Romanov family and one of the most venerated icons in the Upper Volga region...
  
  
• Theotokos of Vladimir
  Theotokos of Vladimir
  The Theotokos of Vladimir , also known as Our Lady of Vladimir or Virgin of Vladimir and "The Vladimir Madonna" - is one of the most venerated Orthodox icons and a typical example of Eleusa Byzantine iconography. The Theotokos is regarded as the holy protectress of Russia...
  
  
• Tikhon of Moscow
  Tikhon of Moscow
  Saint Tikhon of Moscow , born Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin , was the 11th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early years of the Soviet Union, 1917 through 1925.-Early life:...
  
  
• Tokyo Resurrection Cathedral
  Tokyo Resurrection Cathedral
  , also known as , in Chiyoda, Tokyo, is the main cathedral of the Japanese Orthodox Church.- History :The founder of the Japanese Orthodox Church Ivan Dmitrievich Kasatkin , later St. Nicholas of Japan, was an archbishop who devoted himself to improving Japanese-Russian relations during the Meiji...
  
  
• Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
  Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
  The Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius is the most important Russian monastery and the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is situated in the town of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 km to the north-east from Moscow by the road leading to Yaroslavl, and currently is home to...
  
  

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• Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
  Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
  The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church is one of the three major Orthodox Churches in Ukraine. Close to ten percent of the Christian population claim to be members of the UAOC. The other Churches are the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Russophile Orthodox...
  
  
• Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
  Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
  The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Ukrainska Hreko-Katolytska Tserkva), is the largest Eastern Rite Catholic sui juris particular church in full communion with the Holy See, and is directly subject to the Pope...
  
  
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchy
• Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
  Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
  The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada is an Eastern Orthodox Church in Canada, primarily serving Ukrainian Canadians. Its former name was the Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada ...
  
  
• Union of Brest
  Union of Brest
  Union of Brest or Union of Brześć refers to the 1595-1596 decision of the Church of Rus', the "Metropolia of Kiev-Halych and all Rus'", to break relations with the Patriarch of Constantinople and place themselves under the Pope of Rome. At the time, this church included most Ukrainians and...
  
  

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• Valaam Monastery
  Valaam Monastery
  The Valaam Monastery, or Valamo Monastery is a stauropegic Orthodox monastery in Russian Karelia, located on Valaam, the largest island in Lake Ladoga, the largest lake in Europe.-History:...
  
  
• Mar Varkey Vithayathil
• Volodymyr (Viktor Sabodan) (Metropolitan)
  Metropolitan Volodymyr (Viktor Sabodan)
  Metropolitan Volodymyr is the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church . Metropolitan Volodymyr's official title is : His Beatitude Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine...
  
  
• Velichkovsky, Paisius (Saint)
  Paisius Velichkovsky
  Saint Paisius Velichkovsky or Wieliczkowski is the person who transmitted Eastern Orthodox staretsdom or the concept of spiritual guidance to the Slavic world.A Ukrainian by birth, Pyotr Velichkovsky was born in Poltava, where his father, Ivan, was a priest...