The Eastern Orthodox receive the Septuagint as the textual basis for the entire Old Testament, in books both protocanonical and deuteroncanonical, to be used both in the Greek for liturgical purposes, and as the basis for translations in to the vernacular.

Eastern Catholic cardinals continue to wear the normal dress appropriate to their liturgical tradition, though some may line their cassocks with scarlet and wear scarlet fascias, or in some cases, wear Eastern-style cassocks entirely of scarlet.

Ezekiel is commemorated as a saint in the liturgical calendar of the Eastern Orthodox Church — and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite — on July 21 ( for those churches which use the traditional Julian Calendar, July 21 falls on August 3 of the modern Gregorian Calendar ).

The central form of chant in the Eastern Orthodoxy is Byzantine Chant, which is used to chant all forms of liturgical worship.

He is commemorated on the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, with a feast day on October 17 ( for those churches which follow the Julian Calendar, October 17 currently falls on October 30 of the modern Gregorian Calendar ).

On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, his feast day is December 2.

On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar his feast day is September 22 also ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian calendar, September 22 currently falls on October 5 of the modern Gregorian calendar ).

Although Barlaam was never formally canonized, Josaphat was, and they were included in earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology ( feast day 27 November ) — though not in the Roman Missal — and in the Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar ( 26 August in Greek tradition etc.

The Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar begins on 1 September – proceeding annually from the Nativity of the Theotokos to the celebration of Jesus ' birth in the winter ( Christmas ), through his death and resurrection in the spring ( Pascha / Easter ), to his Ascension and the Assumption of his mother ( Dormition of the Theotokos / Virgin Mary ) in the summer.

On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, his feast day is December 1 ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian Calendar, December 1 currently falls on December 14 of the modern Gregorian Calendar ).

The Congregation for the Oriental Churches ( Congregatio pro Ecclesiis Orientalibus ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for contact with the Eastern Catholic Churches for the sake of assisting their development, protecting their rights and also maintaining whole and entire in the one Catholic Church, alongside the liturgical, disciplinary and spiritual patrimony of the Latin Rite, the heritage of the various Oriental Christian traditions.

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments ( Congregatio de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia that handles most affairs relating to liturgical practices of the Latin Catholic Church as distinct from the Eastern Catholic Churches and also some technical matters relating to the Sacraments.

** The beginning of the new liturgical year ( Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Church )

The Eastern Orthodox also use LXX untranslated where Greek is the liturgical language, e. g. in the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, the Church of Greece and the Cypriot Orthodox Church.

On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, his feast day is August 20.

On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar, his feast day is December 3.

The decree recognizes the right of Eastern Catholics to keep their own distinct liturgical practices.

The twenty-two Eastern Catholic churches are all in communion with the Holy See at the Vatican, but are rooted in the theological and liturgical traditions of Eastern Christianity.

The Eastern churches ( excepting the non-liturgical dissenting bodies ) each belong to one of several liturgical families:

The common cultural bond of Eastern Orthodox Christianity and written Church Slavonic ( a literary and liturgical Slavic language developed by 8th century missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius ) fostered the emergence of a new geopolitical entity, Kievan Rus ' — a loose-knit network of principalities, established along preexisting trade routes, with major centers in Novgorod ( currently Russia ), Polatsk ( in Belarus ) and Kiev ( currently in Ukraine ) — which claimed a sometimes precarious preeminence among them.

It played an important role in the history of the Slavic languages and served as a basis and model for later Church Slavonic traditions, and some Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches use Church Slavonic as a liturgical language to this day.

While most patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches have jurisdiction over a " ritual church " ( a group or diocese of a particular Eastern tradition ), all Latin Rite patriarchs, except for the Pope, have only honorary titles.

Eastern Orthodox tradition tells that the pagans directed the stream of a river against the sanctuary of St. Michael there to destroy it, but Michael the Archangel appeared and split the rock by lightning to give a new bed to the stream, diverting the flow away from the church and sanctifying forever the waters which came from the gorge.

According to a tradition preserved in Eastern Christian folklore, Golgotha was the summit of the cosmic mountain at the center of the world and the location where Adam had been both created and buried.

Other sources state that Dada did not originate fully in a Zurich literary salon but grew out of an already vibrant artistic tradition in Eastern Europe, particularly Romania, that transposed to Switzerland when a group of Jewish modernist artists ( Tzara, Marcel & Iuliu Iancu, Arthur Segal, and others ) settled in Zurich.

Eggs were originally forbidden during Lent as well as on other traditional fast days in Western Christianity ( this tradition still continues among the Eastern Christian Churches ).

In Egypt, it's a tradition to decorate boiled eggs during Sham el-Nessim holiday, which falls every year after the Eastern Christian Easter.

While the origin of Easter eggs can be explained in the symbolic terms described above, a sacred tradition among followers of Eastern Christianity says that Mary Magdalene was bringing cooked eggs to share with the other women at the tomb of Jesus, and the eggs in her basket miraculously turned brilliant red when she saw the risen Christ. The egg represents the boulder of the tomb of Jesus.

A fresco from Rila Monastery, Bulgaria, medieval Eastern Orthodox Church | Orthodox tradition, renovated 20th centuryElijah is mentioned once more in, which will be his final mention in the Hebrew Bible.

It is only in a later epoch that the seat of the primordial tradition, transferred to other regions, was able to become either Western or Eastern.

However, Galen and the ancient Greek medical tradition generally continued to be studied and followed in the Eastern Roman Empire, commonly known as the Byzantine Empire.

Cardiognosis (" knowledge of the heart ") from Eastern Christianity related to the tradition of the staretz and in Roman Catholic theology is the view that only God knows the condition of one's relationship with God.

Over time, heraldic tradition diverged into four broad styles: German-Nordic, Gallo-British, Latin, and Eastern.

Eastern Christianity ( the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches ) have a very rich and ancient hymnographical tradition.

Hesychasm (, hesychasmos, from, hesychia, " stillness, rest, quiet, silence ") is an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and some of the Eastern Catholic Churches, such as the Byzantine Rite, practised ( Gk:, hesychazo: " to keep stillness ") by the Hesychast ( Gr., hesychastes ).

In Canada, from oral histories, there is evidence of a tradition of an ancient stick and ball game played among the Mi ' kmaq First Nation in Eastern Canada.

In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, only flat panel or, mostly in small works such as ivories, bas relief images are used.

Late Antique styles developed in which figures were stylized in a manner that emphasized their holiness rather than their humanity, and this tradition has been very largely maintained within Eastern Orthodoxy.

In the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition there are reports of particular, Wonderworking icons that exude myrrh ( fragrant, healing oil ), or perform miracles upon petition by believers.

Accounts that some non-Orthodox writers consider legendary are accepted as history within Eastern Orthodoxy, because they are a part of church tradition.

* Saint Anastasius Sinaita ( of Sinai ) – theologian, Father of the Eastern Orthodox Church, monk, priest, and abbot of the monastery at Mt.

However, in the Byzantine and other Eastern rites, whether Eastern or Oriental Orthodox or Eastern Catholic, chrismation is done immediately after baptism, and thus the priest is the one who confirms, using chrism blessed by a bishop.

In the Roman Catholic ( Latin: sacri ordines ), Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox ( ιερωσύνη, ιεράτευμα, Священство ), Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Assyrian, Old Catholic, Independent Catholic churches and some Lutheran churches Holy Orders comprise the three orders of bishop, priest and deacon, or the sacrament or rite by which candidates are ordained to those orders.

Eastern Orthodox bishops would most likely re-ordain a Catholic priest if one were to convert ; that is part of the policy called church economy.

Eastern Orthodox priest wearing epitrachelion ( stole ) and epimanikia ( cuffs ), Mtskheta, Georgia ( country ) | Republic of Georgia

Today the term " priest " is used in Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, and some branches of Lutheranism to refer to those who have been ordained to a ministerial position through receiving the sacrament of Holy Orders, although " presbyter " is also used.

The role of a priest in the Anglican Communion is largely the same as within the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Christianity, except that canon law in almost every Anglican province restricts the administration of confirmation to the bishop, just as with ordination.

Deranged persons of all the three faiths are taken thither and chained in the court of the chapel, where they are kept for forty days on bread and water, the Eastern Orthodox priest at the head of the establishment now and then reading the Gospel over them, or administering a whipping as the case demands.

Eastern Orthodox clergy: bishop ( right, at altar ), priest ( left ), and two deacon s ( in gold )

In the Eastern tradition, chrismation shows the unity of the church through the bishop in the continuation of the Apostolic faith, because the Chrism used is presented to the priest by the bishop and ( together with the antimension ) is the symbol of the priest's permission from the bishop to perform the sacraments ( see faculty ).

Titles in the Bajoran religion include a " Prylar " ( roughly equivalent to a Christian monk ), " Ranjen " ( a rank falling between Prylars and the next rank, and responsible for a variety of tasks ), " Mylar " ( priest or minister, mentioned in " Ties of Blood and Water "), " Vedek " ( cardinal, bishop ) and " Kai " ( equivalent to the pope in Roman Catholic theology or Patriarch in the Eastern Orthodox theology ).

The Tridentine canons did not bind the Protestants or the Eastern Orthodox, but clandestine marriage was impossible for the latter, since marriage required the presence of a priest for validity.

In Eastern Catholic Churches, the usual minister of this sacrament is the parish priest, using olive oil consecrated by a bishop ( i. e., chrism ), and administering the sacrament immediately after baptism.

Anglicans are unique in Christianity in that only bishops may administer confirmation, unlike the Roman Catholic Church where, in the Latin Rite, confirmation conferred by a priest is valid " if he has the faculty to do so, either from the general law or by way of a special grant from the competent authority ", and, in the Eastern Rites, confirmation is usually administered by a priest immediately after baptism, as is the practice also of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

In some Eastern traditions this blessing may be done only by a bishop, in some it may be done by a priest.

Thus, while in certain conditions the Roman Catholic Church allows its faithful who cannot approach a Catholic minister to receive the Eucharist from an Eastern Orthodox priest, the Eastern Orthodox Church does not admit Roman Catholics to its Mystery of the Eucharist.

In 1732 a missionary priest of the Sacred Congregation " De propaganda fide " from the kingdom of Naples, Matteo Ripa ( 1692 – 1746 ), created in Naples the first Sinology School of the European Continent: the " Chinese Institute ", the first nucleus of what would become today's Università degli studi di Napoli L ' Orientale, or Naples Eastern University.