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    EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine ritesplay

    Synonyms:

    Eastern Church; Eastern Orthodox; Eastern Orthodox Church; Orthodox Catholic Church; Orthodox Church

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    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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