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EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Eastern Orthodox Church mean?
• EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH (noun)
The noun EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH has 1 sense:
1. derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites
Familiarity information: EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Eastern Church; Eastern Orthodox; Eastern Orthodox Church; Orthodox Catholic Church; Orthodox Church
Hypernyms ("Eastern Orthodox Church" is a kind of...):
Catholic Church (any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church)
Domain member category:
canonisation; canonization ((Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints)
bishop (a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Eastern Orthodox Church"):
Greek Church; Greek Orthodox Church (state church of Greece; an autonomous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church)
Russian Orthodox Church (an independent church with its own Patriarch; until 1917 it was the established church or Russia)
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