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The term Orthodox Christianity usually refers to:
- the Orthodox Church, which official name is "Orthodox",[1] the church considers itself to be the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Orthodox Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles almost 2,000 years ago.
Orthodox Christianity is term used by other Churches, which personally describing themselves with:
- the Oriental Orthodox Church, which also uses the official name of "Orthodox"[2] and also considers itself to be the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Orthodox Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles almost 2,000 years ago. The church was established when it digressed from the Orthodox Church in First Council of Ephesus and in Council of Chalcedon and de facto it started considering itself to be the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Orthodox Church after the Orthodox Church.
- any other Churches considering themselves as orthodox (non-heretical), irrespective of whether the body upholding that form uses the word "orthodox" in its official name, as do some minor groups associated with the Old Catholic Church, Independent Catholic Churches, the Continuing Anglican Movement, and the Liberal Catholic Church
- mainstream churches, as opposed to what the person using the term regards as sects or cults.[3][4][5][6]
References
- ^ As shown in the official name of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Georgian Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
- ^ As shown, for instance, in the official name of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Syriac Orthodox Church.
- ^ H.T. Spence, Crucial Truths for Crucial Days (Foundations Press 2009 ISBN 1882542509), vol. III, pp.98-99
- ^ Geoffrey Ernest Stedman, An Orthodox Understanding of the Bible with Physical Science (Writers Literary and Publishing 2010 ISBN 9781609117252), p. 4
- ^ B. V. Rao, ;;History of Modern Europe AD 1789-2002 (New Dawn 2005 ISBN 9781932705560), p. 2
- ^ Gillian Rosemary Evans, The First Christian Theologians (Wiley, John & Sons 2004 ISBN 9780631231882), p. 203
See also
- List of Orthodox Churches
- Old Believers, a movement containing a large number of independent Eastern Orthodox denominations, which broke from the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century:
- Western Orthodoxy