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Humanities > Religion > Christianity > Eastern Orthodoxy

Preferred term

Eastern Orthodoxy  

Type

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Entry terms

  • Armenian Orthodoxy
  • Eastern Orthodox Ethics
  • Ethics, Eastern Orthodox
  • Greek Orthodoxy
  • Orthodoxy, Armenian
  • Orthodoxy, Greek
  • Orthodoxy, Russian
  • Orthodoxy, Serbian
  • Orthodoxy, Syrian
  • Russian Orthodoxy
  • Serbian Orthodoxy
  • Syrian Orthodoxy

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Scope note

  • The name given to the religion of the body of modern churches, including among others the Greek and Russian Orthodox, that is derived from the church of the Byzantine Empire, adheres to the Byzantine rite, and acknowledges the honorary primacy of the patriarch of Constantinople. (from American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed)

History note

  • 2003; for EASTERN ORTHODOX ETHICS use CHRISTIANITY 1992-2002

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D033003

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