for still others, mostly of the nineteenth-century immigration, it was Roman Catholicism, and for a small minority it was Eastern Orthodoxy.

* Procession of the Cross and the beginning of Dormition Fast ( Eastern Orthodoxy )

Further, proponents of the necessity of the personal apostolic succession of bishops within the Church point to the universal practice of the undivided early Church ( up to AD 431 ), before being divided into the Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

The Eastern Orthodox generally recognize Roman Catholic orders, but have a different concept of the apostolic succession as it exists outside of Eastern Orthodoxy.

Athanasius is counted as one of the four Great Doctors of the Church in the Roman Catholic Church as well as one of the Great Doctors of the Church in Eastern Orthodoxy, where he is also labeled the " Father of Orthodoxy ".

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In Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism, only a bishop can ordain other bishops, priests, and deacons.

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

The " Song of the Three Holy Youths " is part of the Matins service in Eastern Orthodoxy, and of Lauds on Sundays and feast days in Catholicism.

This is still the understanding in Roman Catholicism, some parts of Anglicanism, Lutheranism and Eastern Orthodoxy.

Some Christians, such as Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, also have traditions of fasting, in which saints, as well as Jesus, are claimed to have been able to go for a period of time ( without any food, or with no food but the Eucharist ).

The three primary divisions of Christianity are Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism.

Eastern Orthodoxy comprises those churches in communion with the Patriarchal Sees of the East, such as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

Eastern Orthodoxy is the second largest single denomination in Christianity, with over 200 million adherents.

Constantine's foundation gave prestige to the Bishop of Constantinople, who eventually came to be known as the Ecumenical Patriarch, a situation that contributed to the Great Schism that divided Western Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy from 1054 onwards.

Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism do not believe in Purgatory as such, though the Orthodox Church is willing to allow for a period of continued sanctification ( the process of being made pure, or holy ) after death.

Its combination of modern innovation ( such as mixed gender seating ) and traditional practice particularly appealed to first and second-generation Eastern European Jewish immigrants, who found Orthodoxy too restrictive, but Reform Judaism foreign.

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Modern gay Christian leader Justin R. Cannon promotes what he calls " Inclusive Orthodoxy " ( not to be confused with the Eastern Orthodox Church ).

Western crucifixes usually have a three-dimensional corpus, but in Eastern Orthodoxy Jesus's body is normally painted on the cross, or in low relief.

In Eastern Orthodoxy, marriage is treated as a Sacred Mystery ( sacrament ), and as an ordination.

Most Christians believe that the kosher food laws do not apply to them as they are no longer under the Law of Moses, and that, as Jesus taught in Mark 7: what you eat doesn't make you unclean but what comes out of a man's heart makes him unclean — although Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy have their own set of dietary observances.

The Eastern Orthodox view of the origin of icons is generally quite different from that of most secular scholars and from some in contemporary Roman Catholic circles: " The Orthodox Church maintains and teaches that the sacred image has existed from the beginning of Christianity ", Léonid Ouspensky has written.

" Eastern Orthodoxy further teaches that " a clear understanding of the importance of Icons " was part of the church from its very beginning, and has never changed, although explanations of their importance may have developed over time.

Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Churches use exactly the same form of the Creed, since the Catholic Church teaches that it is wrong to add " and the Son " to the Greek verb " ἐκπορευόμενον ", but correct to add it to the Latin " qui procedit ", which does not have precisely the same meaning.

Just as Eastern mysticism teaches that reality is more than what the rational mind can formulate analytically from observing the nature of " otherness ", the essentialist ontology transcends self / other dualism to define the undivided source — the ineffable Oneness alluded to in Eastern Philosophy.

The Eastern Orthodox Church teaches that there are two judgments: the first, or " Particular " Judgment, is that experienced by each individual at the time of his or her death, at which time God will decide where the soul is to spend the time until the Second Coming of Christ ( see Hades in Christianity ).

While Catholic dogma leaves open the question of Mary's death before rising to Heaven, the Eastern Orthodox tradition of the Dormition of the Theotokos teaches that Mary died and then rose to Heaven.

The Eastern Daily Press columnist Keith Skipper claimed that Sugden is " probably the county ’ s finest ambassador who captures the true spirit of Norfolk, teaches it tricks, then sends it to run riot across the land ".

The Eastern Orthodox Church teaches that it is the only path that one should choose for salvation.

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According to the Western Church, " original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants ", and the Eastern Church teaches that " by these fruits and this burden we do not understand sin ".

Specifically how the prayers of the faithful help the departed is not elucidated ; Eastern Orthodox simply believe that tradition teaches that prayers should be made for the dead.

The Eastern Orthodox church teaches that Heaven and Hell are both in God's presence.

The Eastern Orthodox Church teaches that the New Jerusalem is the City of God that will come down from heaven in the manner described in the Book of the Apocalypse ( Revelation ).

Rizman and Craig Nation, who teaches Eastern European studies at the United States Army War College, have compared Janša with radical right-wing populist leaders of other European countries.

Western theology teaches that at the Words of Institution the bread is changed or altered ( known as either transubstantiation or transignification according to tradition or denomination ) into the Body of Christ, while Eastern theology sees the epiclesis as no less necessary.

The Sacred Tradition of Eastern Christianity teaches that the Virgin Mary died a natural death ( the Dormition of the Theotokos, the falling asleep ) like any human being ; that her soul was received by Christ upon death ; and that her body was resurrected on the third day after her repose, at which time she was taken up, soul and body, into heaven in anticipation of the general resurrection.

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At its Cultural Center located in Dayton, Maine, Métis band elders teach traditional Eastern Woodland Native spiritual and social culture in the Medicine Wheel way, which teaches harmony and respect between the cultures.

Some Christian denominations hold that salvation depends upon transformational faith in Jesus, which expresses itself in good works as a testament ( or witness ) to ones faith for others to see ( primarily Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism ), while others ( including most Protestants ) hold that faith alone is necessary for salvation.

The New Testament does not include an account of the " moment of resurrection " and in the Eastern Church icons do not depict that moment, but show the Myrrhbearers, and depict scenes of salvation.

In both Eastern and Western religions salvation is also the phenomenon of being saved from death but here is not meant biological death but the suffering and degradation within life resulting from the consequences of sin.

Belief that a lost Nestorian kingdom existed in the east, or that the Crusader states ' salvation depended on an alliance with an Eastern monarch, was one reason for the numerous Christian ambassadors and missionaries sent to the Mongols.

The axiom is often used as short-hand for the doctrine, upheld by both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, that the Church is necessary for salvation (" one true faith ").

The company's salvation turned out to be the science fiction series Lexx, which was a hit in Germany, Russia and Eastern Europe.

Because of differences in the theology of salvation, indulgences for the remission of temporal punishment of sin do not exist in Eastern Orthodoxy, but until the twentieth century there existed in some places a practice of absolution certificates ( συγχωροχάρτια – synchorochartia ).

Synergism, the teaching that there is " a kind of interplay between human freedom and divine grace ", is an important part of the salvation theology of the Roman Catholic Church and also of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The doctrine upheld by the Eastern Orthodox Church, is that salvation involves man freely giving the assent of faith to the Word of God and cooperating with the prompting of the Holy Spirit preceding and preserving his assent and also man sometimes by his own volition seeking salvation.

In the Eastern Christian traditions, theoria is the most critical component needed for a person to be considered a theologian ; however it is not necessary for one's salvation.

The Eastern Orthodox Church generally adheres to the doctrine of theosis in its conception of salvation as a process of personal transformation to the likeness of God in Christ.

The accusation is rejected by the Eastern Orthodox, which unlike these Western traditions was relatively uninfluenced by Augustine and holds that " for the regenerated to do spiritual good – for the works of the believer being contributory to salvation and wrought by supernatural grace are properly called spiritual – it is necessary that he be guided and prevented by grace … Consequently he is not able of himself to do any work worthy of a Christian life ".

The New Testament does not include an account of the " moment of resurrection " and in the Eastern Church icons do not depict that moment, but show the Myrrhbearers, and depict scenes of salvation.

Every Eastern Orthodox church is usually dedicated to a saint, but the cathedral is currently only known for its dedication to the salvation of the Romanian people.

" Some other Orthodox, who do not apply the term " Semi-Pelagian " to their theology, criticize the Roman Catholics for allegedly rejecting Cassian, whom they accept as fully orthodox, and for holding, as, in Casiday's interpretation, Cassian did, that everything which pertains to salvation comes from God's grace, and so that even the human consent to God's justifying action is itself an effect of grace, This position of the Roman Catholic Church and of Cassian as interpreted by Casiday is attributed by Eastern Orthodox theologian Georges Florovsky also to the Eastern Orthodox Church, which, he says, " always understood that God initiates, accompanies, and completes everything in the process of salvation ", rejecting instead the Calvinist idea of irresistible grace.

" While Protestants view salvation in terms of faith and grace alone ( i. e. sola fide and sola gratia ) both Western and Eastern Christians see a role for meditation on the path to salvation and redemption.

After the Sanctus follows a recapitulation of salvation history, especially the Incarnation, and leads into the words of Jesus over the bread and wine at the Mystical Supper, as Eastern Christians often refer to the Last Supper: " Take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you, for the forgiveness of sins.