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    The Oriental Orthodox Churches are Eastern Christian churches adhering to Miaphysite Christology, with approximately 50 million members worldwide. The...
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    Church, is an Oriental Orthodox church that branched from the Church of Antioch. The bishop of Antioch, known as the patriarch, heads the church and possesses...
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    Orthodox churches in Egypt Copts Coptic saints Coptic Orthodox churches Institute of Coptic Studies Coptic Orphans Oriental Orthodox Churches Orthodox Tewahedo...
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  • Chalcedon. Hence, these Churches are also called Old Oriental Churches or Non-Chalcedonian Churches. The history of Oriental Orthodoxy goes back to the...
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  • Orthodox Tewahedo refers to two Oriental Orthodox Christian Churches with shared beliefs, liturgy, and history. The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is...
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    of Churches. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is in communion with the other Oriental Orthodox churches (the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the...
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    Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (Tigrinya: ቤተ ክርስትያን ተዋህዶ ኤርትራ, romanized: beta krstyan tawahdo ertra) is one of the Oriental Orthodox Churches with its...
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  • Oriental Orthodoxy. The British Orthodox Church has not been in communion with any of the Oriental Orthodox churches since a 2015 decision to return to...
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    Eastern Christian denominations, there are several Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, with just below 1 million adherents in the U.S., or 0...
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    and churches that originally developed further west. Major Eastern Christian bodies include the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches...
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  • second-largest Christian church Oriental Orthodox Churches, a branch of Eastern Christianity Orthodox Presbyterian Church, a confessional Presbyterian denomination...
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    Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) also known as the Indian Orthodox Church (IOC) or simply as the Malankara Church, is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox...
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  • churches in India that follow the Oriental Orthodox tradition. All of them are based primarily in the state of Kerala. They are: Malankara Orthodox Syrian...
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  • human, in one 'nature' (physis)." It is a position held by the Oriental Orthodox Churches and differs from the Chalcedonian position that Jesus is one "person"...
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    part of the Oriental Orthodox Church. It recognizes the Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch and All the East as supreme head of the church. It functions...
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  • the Church in the 1st century, and marked the beginning of Christianity in Africa. The Coptic Orthodox Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox churches (not...
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    Oriental Orthodox Churches are the churches descended from those that rejected the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Despite the similar name, they are therefore...
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  • The Oriental Orthodox Churches in India are Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and Jacobite Syrian Christian Church. Malabar Independent Syrian Church also...
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    of Oriental Orthodox Churches (official pages) Council of the Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Western USA (2007) Meeting of the Oriental Orthodox Churches...
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  • churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. Each constituent church is...
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    The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions:...
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    marks, boxes, or other symbols. The Tigrayan Orthodox Tewahedo Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox Churches with its headquarters in Axum, Tigray Region...
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  • Christian Church, one of Oriental Orthodox Churches in India Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, one of Oriental Orthodox Churches in India All pages with...
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    Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are...
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    those churches. Before the Council of Ephesus in AD 431, the Church of the East also shared in this communion, as did the various Oriental Orthodox Churches...
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    Catholic and Apostolic Church. The main Eastern groups are: the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches; the Eastern Catholic Churches, which are in communion...
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  • tradition is known as Oriental Orthodoxy. Within this tradition are a number of ancient Christian churches including the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria...
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    formula was rejected. However, again like other Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Armenian Apostolic Church argues that the identification as "monophysitism"...
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  • working on a relationship with the Eastern Orthodox Church and other Christian Churches. The Oriental Orthodox Churches believe in Apostolic Succession, the...
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  • today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Union of Utrecht, the...
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