The Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Alternative synod was an Eastern Orthodox Church that claimed to be the sole legitimate Eastern Orthodox Church in Bulgaria...

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Bulgarian: Българска православна църква, romanized: Bûlgarska pravoslavna cûrkva), legally the Patriarchate of Bulgaria (Bulgarian:...

schismatic threats within the Church. The faction against Maxim formed the Bulgarian Orthodox Church – Alternative synod. Патриарх Максим почина (видео)...

Montenegrin Orthodox Church. In the Church of St. Paraskeva in Sofia, on March 15, 1998, he was ordained as bishop by Bulgarian Alternative Synod's head Patriarch...

Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russian: Русская православная церковь, romanized: Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally...

as of today). This Synod obtained government recognition as a valid Orthodox church, although it is not in communion with the Church of Greece nor with...

1995 and excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1997, an action not recognized by the UOC-KP synod. In 2018, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of...

and Orthodox churches, and was used in Byzantine frescoes, arts, and crafts. In 1551 during the canonical isolation of the Russian Orthodox Church, Ivan...

The Second Bulgarian Empire (Middle Bulgarian: Ц(а)рьство бл(ъ)гарское; Modern Bulgarian: Второ българско царство, romanized: Vtorо Balgarskо Tsarstvo)...

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch (Greek: Ελληνορθόδοξο Πατριαρχείο Αντιοχείας), also known as the Antiochian Orthodox Church and legally as the...

Eastern Christian denominations, there are several Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, with just below 1 million adherents in the U.S., or 0...

Orthodox Church of Albania (Albanian: Kisha Ortodokse Autoqefale e Shqipërisë), commonly known as the Albanian Orthodox Church or the Orthodox Church...

Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church Old Calendar Romanian Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church Serbian True Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox Old-Rite...

The Eastern Orthodox Church presents a view of sin distinct from views found in Catholicism and in Protestantism, that sin is viewed primarily as a terminal...

schism in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church between the mainstream synod and the alternative synod. In 1994 Ambrose joined the Alternative Synod and was ordained...

a synod was convened in Lviv, which revoked the Union of Brest. Officially all of the church property was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church under...

Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC, Russian: Российская православная автономная церковь, РПАЦ; until 1998 it was called the Russian Orthodox Free Church...

Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance) – 0.75 million Old Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church – 0.45 million Orthodox Church in Italy – 0.12 million...

today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Union of Utrecht, the...

Nicene church associated with emperors in a variety of ways: as the catholic church, the orthodox church, the imperial church, the Roman church, or the...

by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox churches, Assyrian Church of the East, and the Ancient Church of the East. Most...

of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were Eastern Orthodox Christians. Their hierarchs gathered in synod in the city of Brest and composed 33 articles of...

the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church...

Russian Orthodox Church was stipulated in 1667 by the Synod of Moscow,: 138  but this position is not universal within the Eastern Orthodox communion...

The Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America (Serbian: Српска православна црква у Северној и Јужној Америци, Srpska pravoslavna crkva u Severnoy...

Russian Orthodox Church and the Synod, the Ukrainian dioceses still retained some peculiarities in organization and church rites. In 1770, the synod forbade...

profitably use this property. The resolution of a case concerning the Alternative Orthodox Synod and the 2004 forceful expulsion of its members from their parishes...

becoming a member of the Alternative Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, as the head of the autonomous Orthodox Church in Italy. Metropolitan Antonio...

reverse is true for some Slavic Orthodox churches (Russian Orthodox, Bulgarian Orthodox) and also for Romanian Orthodox Church, where metropolitans rank above...

the First Synod of Tyre in 335, and Marcellus of Ancyra followed him in 336. Arius returned to Constantinople to be readmitted into the Church but died...