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Orthodox Catholic Church
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Noun1.Orthodox Catholic Church - derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine ritesOrthodox Catholic Church - derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites
canonisation, canonization - (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints
Catholic Church - any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian 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
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


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I know from personal observation that even--or especially--in Catholic Studies classes, orthodox Catholicism is often marginalized; its department heads and teachers are not infrequently dissident ex-nuns or insufficiently catechized lay people, or even malcontents with Church-related 'issues' to vent.
The demise of the evangelical community owed less to the Inquisition than to the evaporation of social tolerance that accompanied a surge of popular orthodox Catholicism precipitated by the plague of 1575-77.
Did he pay for them, or did my mother, or some anonymous benefactor with a taste for Orthodox Catholicism, literature with a fascist bite?
 
 
 
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