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Preferred term

Orthodox Church  

Entry terms

  • Church, Orthodox
  • Eastern Orthodox Church
  • Orthodox Catholic Church of the East
  • Orthodox Eastern Church

Scope note

  • commonly used today to designate the Eastern Churches of the Byzantine Rite (q.v.) that do not recognize the primacy of the pope, yet preserve an essential unity in doctrine under an apostolic hierarchical magisterium that existed before the 11th c., when they separated from Rome

Notation

  • 76356

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/BQ7-QPPJ5C0D-L

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