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Cyril of Alexandria - 5th century Patriarch of Alexandria and the most important defender of Virgin Mary's title as the *Theotokos; Epiphanius of Salamis - 5th century Saint and Bishop. He wrote the Panarion and other theological works. Georges Florovsky; Saint Maximus the Confessor - saint and monk who lived from 580 to 662 A.D. He defend ...
Karbelashvili Brothers: 1879–1936 6 September Brothers; whose names were Pilimon, Andria, Petre, Polievktos and Vasil: Kassia the Hymnographer: 865 7 September Venerable, the Hymnographer, a.k.a. Kassiani and Cassia [439] Kenan: 1535 AM: Sunday of the Holy Forefathers Forefather, Righteous, name also spelled Qenan, Kaynan or Cainan [344 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 January 2025. Second-largest Christian church This article is about the Eastern Orthodox Church as an institution. For its religion, doctrine and tradition, see Eastern Orthodoxy. For other uses of "Orthodox Church", see Orthodox Church (disambiguation). For other uses of "Greek Orthodox", see Greek ...
Saint Anthony the Great was known to have belonged to a brotherhood called the "Spoudaioi". Brotherhoods (Ukrainian: братство; literally, "fraternities") were non-monastic organisations of Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic citizens or lay brothers affiliated with individual autocephalous churches.
Marian devotions are external pious practices directed to the person of Mary, mother of Jesus, by members of certain Christian traditions. [1] They are performed in Catholicism, High Church Lutheranism, Anglo-Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, but generally rejected in other Christian denominations.
Helvidius (sometimes Helvetius) was the author of a work written prior to 383 against the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary.Helvidius maintained that the biblical mention of "sisters" and "brothers" of the Lord constitutes solid evidence that Mary had normal marital relations with Joseph and additional children after the miraculous conception and birth of Jesus.
Icon used on the Sunday of the Myrrhbearers. The three Marys are in the center with the two angels at either side, in the foreground is the Holy Sepulchre with the winding sheet and napkin. In the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches, the Third Sunday of Pascha (i.e. the second Sunday after Easter) is called the 'Sunday of the ...
Boswell himself denied that adelphopoiesis should be properly translated as "homosexual marriage," [25] but he argued that "brother-making" or "making of brothers" was an "anachronistically literal" translation and proposed "same-sex union" as the preferable rendering. Boswell's preference was problematic to Eastern Orthodox canonists, as well ...