Eastern Orthodoxy
A living tradition within Christianity. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Eastern Orthodoxy is a living tradition within Christianity. Also written Orthodox Church, Byzantine Orthodoxy, Chalcedonian Orthodoxy.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. No founding date. The conventional marker is 1054, when Patriarch Michael Cerularius of Constantinople and the envoys of Pope Leo IX excommunicated one another; Britannica presents this as the culmination of long estrangement over language, culture, politics, the Filioque and papal authority, not as a founding event. The Orthodox Church is a fellowship of autocephalous churches with the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople holding honorary primacy.
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Citation
English
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John Shaqi. “Eastern Orthodoxy.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-eastern-orthodoxy.
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}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.