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• Coptic Orthodox ChurchDenominations

  The Coptic Orthodox Church is a church of the Oriental Orthodox family centered in Egypt. It regards Mark the Evangelist as its founder and is known for not accepting the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

• Church of the Holy SepulchreHistory

  The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a church in the Old City of Jerusalem, built on the site traditionally identified as Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified, and as the tomb in which he was buried. First built under Constantine the Great in the fourth century, it is now administered jointly by several denominations.

• Second Council of ConstantinopleHistory

  The Second Council of Constantinople was a church council convened in Constantinople in 553 by the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. It condemned the so-called "Three Chapters" and reaffirmed the Christology of the Council of Chalcedon. The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church count it as the fifth ecumenical council.

• HesychasmDoctrine & Theology

  Hesychasm, from the Greek hesychia, meaning "stillness," is a spirituality of prayer in the monastic tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church that seeks union with God by stilling the heart and ceaselessly repeating the Jesus Prayer.

• TrinityDoctrine & Theology

  The Trinity is the central Christian doctrine that God is one in essence and exists in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is confessed in common by Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches.

• ProtestantismDenominations

  Protestantism is a major branch of Christianity that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the sixteenth-century Reformation. The term refers collectively to a number of denominations, including the Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Holiness, and Pentecostal churches.

• TheosisDoctrine & Theology

  Theosis, also called deification, is the teaching that the goal of salvation is for human beings, by the grace of God, to participate in God's life and nature and so grow into the likeness of God. It is a central concept of Eastern Orthodox soteriology.

• Feast of the Holy InnocentsFeasts & Seasons

  The Feast of the Holy Innocents is a commemoration in the church calendar honoring the victims of Herod's killing of the young boys of Bethlehem (Matthew 2:16-18). The Western church observes it on December 28.

• First Vatican CouncilHistory

  The First Vatican Council was a council of the Catholic Church convened by Pope Pius IX at the Vatican in Rome in 1869–1870. It is best known for defining papal primacy and papal infallibility as dogma.

• Presentation of the LordFeasts & Seasons

  The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord is a feast of the church year that commemorates the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple in Jerusalem forty days after his birth. Western churches usually observe it on February 2.

• East–West SchismHistory

  The East–West Schism was the division between the Western Church (Roman Catholic) and the Eastern Church (Orthodox). Its starting point is commonly dated to 1054, when the papal legates and the Patriarch of Constantinople excommunicated each other.

• Jesus PrayerChristian Life

  The Jesus Prayer is the short prayer "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner," recited repeatedly. It originated in the monastic tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

• Oriental Orthodox ChurchesDenominations

  The Oriental Orthodox Churches are a communion of ancient Eastern churches that did not accept the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon (451) and recognize only the first three ecumenical councils. Members include the Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, and Ethiopian churches.

• History of the Russian Orthodox ChurchHistory

  The history of the Russian Orthodox Church is the history of a branch of Eastern Orthodoxy that began around 988, when Vladimir I of Kievan Rus' accepted the Orthodox faith of Byzantium, and that has continued to the present day centered on the Patriarchate of Moscow.

• Second Council of NicaeaHistory

  The Second Council of Nicaea was a council held in 787 at Nicaea in the Eastern Roman Empire. Amid the iconoclast controversy, it reaffirmed the veneration of icons. The Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church accept it as the Seventh Ecumenical Council.

• Justinian IPeople

  Justinian I (c. 482–565) was emperor of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire from 527 to 565. He is known for codifying Roman law and for rebuilding the Hagia Sophia, and the Orthodox Church venerates him as a saint.

• Lazarus SaturdayFeasts & Seasons

  Lazarus Saturday is the Saturday immediately before Palm Sunday and commemorates Jesus' raising of the dead Lazarus at Bethany. It is observed chiefly by the Orthodox Church and by churches of the Eastern liturgical tradition.

• TheodoraPeople

  Theodora (c. 500–548) was a sixth-century empress of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. The wife and closest adviser of Justinian I, she protected the churches that opposed the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon. The Orthodox Church venerates her as a saint.

• PeshittaBible

  The Peshitta is a translation of the Bible into Syriac, a branch of Aramaic. The Eastern churches that carry on the Syriac tradition still use it today as their standard Bible.