Category:Eastern Orthodoxy

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Eastern Orthodox Christianity, or Eastern Orthodoxy, refers primarily to the eastern European Christian traditions descending from the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium. It was separated from the Assyrian Church and the Oriental Churches during the christological schisms of the 5th and 6th century. The formal division from the Roman Catholic Church occurred in 1054 in what is known as the East-West Schism.

Like most of the apostolic churches named above it claims to be the 'One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church' and rejects the other's claim to this title. The designation "Orthodox" reflects the additional claim to have retained unchanged the original church traditions of teaching and worship. The Eastern Orthodox churches with the largest number of adherents are the Russian Orthodox and the Romanian Orthodox churches, while the most ancient are the Greek Orthodox and the Georgian Orthodox churches.

Main Christian denominations

                      - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -/== Restorationism
                     /(Claim of separate lineage) /
                                                 /==== Protestanism 
                   /                            /
                               Reformation     /====== Anglicanism 
                 /           (16th century)-> /
 Early             Great Schism     /================= (Western Rites)
 Christianity  /  (11th century)-> /      | <-"Unia"   Roman Catholicism
 ================================={     /============= (Eastern Rites)
             \  \ <-Council of     \   /
              \  \  Chalcedon (451) \================= Eastern Orthodoxy
  Council of ->\  \
  Ephesus (413) \  \================================== Oriental Orthodoxy
                 \
                  \=================================== Assyrian Church
                                                       of the East

Protestant denominations: Lutheranism, Calvinism, Baptism, Society of Friends (Quakerism)
Restorationist movements: Latter Day Saints (Mormonism), Jehovah's Witnesses

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Eastern Orthodox priests

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Baptism of Kiev

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Raskol

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Western Orthodoxy

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