In 1453 when the last vestige of ancient Roman power fell to the Turks, the city officially shifted religions -- although the Patriarch, or Pope, of the Orthodox Church continued to live there, and still does -- and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

With a membership currently estimated at over 85 million members worldwide, the Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Anglican clergy who join the Orthodox Church are reordained ; but Orthodox Churches hold that if Anglicanism and Orthodoxy were to reach full unity in the faith, perhaps such reordination might not be found necessary.

** Herman of Alaska ( Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations )

The Eastern Orthodox Church observes several All Souls ' Days during the year.

The Eastern Orthodox Church dedicates several days throughout the year to the dead, mostly on Saturdays, because of Jesus ' resting in the Holy Sepulchre on that day.

* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.

In the Orthodox Church, only actual monastics are permitted to be elevated to the rank of Archimandrite.

Normally there are no celibate priests who are not monastics in the Orthodox Church, with the exception of married priests who have been widowed.

** Basil Fool for Christ ( Russian Orthodox Church )

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

In the Catholic Church ( both the Latin Rite and Eastern Catholic ), Eastern Orthodox, Coptic and Anglican abbeys, the mode of election, position, rights, and authority of an abbess correspond generally with those of an abbot.

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* 1927 – Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.

*** Buhe ( Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church )

( Russian Orthodox Church and Georgian Orthodox Church )

** Abraham of Smolensk ( Eastern Orthodox Church )

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

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

The now-deceased Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Patriarch Alexius II | Alexius II, consecrating a Russian Orthodox diocesan bishop.

File: Cupola-Armenian Orthodox church in Lvov. jpg | Inside of Armenian Orthodox church cupola in Lvov, Ukraine.

Pope Shenouda III, the 117th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria | Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist ( 1971 – 2012 ).

Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria | Pope Cyril VI, the 116th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria | Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist ( 1959 – 1971 ).

File: Archangel Michael's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Aswan ( Egypt ). JPG | Archangel Michael's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Aswan, Egypt

File: St. George & St. Rueiss Coptic Orthodox Church. JPG | Saint Georges & Saint Rueiss Church, Toronto, Canada

File: Saint Mina and Saint Kyrillos Coptic Orthodox Church. jpg | Saint Mina & Saint Cyril Church, Mississauga, Canada

File: St Mary and St Abraham Coptic Orthodox Church-geograph. org. uk-98611. jpg | Saint Mary and Saint Abraam Church, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

File: Coptic Orthodox Church, Dunedin. jpg | Coptic Church, Dunedin, New Zealand

File: Interior of Archangel Michael's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Aswan ( Egypt ). JPG | Interior of Archangel Michael's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Aswan, Egypt

File: St Mary Orthodox, Risca. jpg | Iconostasis, Saint Mary & Saint Mercurius Church, Risca, Wales, United Kingdom

File: 5208-20080122-1255UTC -- jerusalem-calvary. jpg | The place where it is believed Jesus died, now under the Eastern Orthodox altar on Calvary

Orthodox Church | Orthodox icon of the Resurrection of Jesus.

( Community and Parish of Saint George Thebarton, Adelaide, South Australia | St. George Greek Orthodox Church, Adelaide )

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.

Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, " Priest-Apostolic " to America and the West Indies.

Although his paternal great-grandfather had been a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, and his pious mother did have him baptised, he was an atheist in later life.

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.

Shortly before his death, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church had given Pasternak the last rites.

In 1889, a Russian by the name of Nikolay Ivanovitch Achinov ( b. 1856 ), arrived with settlers, infantry and an Orthodox priest to Sagallo on the Gulf of Tadjoura.

* 1983 – Alexander Schmemann, Estonian Orthodox Christian priest and theologian ( b. 1921 )

In the Orthodox Liturgy, if celebrated in Greek, the priest is addressed by the deacon as Despot even today.

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.

Metropolitan Hilarion performs the laying on of hands ( Cheirotonia ), conferring the Holy Order of presbyter | presbyter ( priest ) upon an Orthodox deacon.

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.

He visited the great church of Hagia Sophia and spoke with a Christian Orthodox priest about his travels in the city of Jerusalem.

* 1907 – Dimitrios Holevas, Greek Orthodox priest, member of the Greek Resistance movement ( d. 2001 )

Orthodox priest in a papyrus boat on his way to one of the monasteries

Russian Orthodox priest administering the last rites to a soldier on the field of battle.

In the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church and Serbian Orthodox Church, it is not unusual for a village priest to be called a " pope " (" поп " pop ).

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

The daughter of an Orthodox priest, she was captured by Tatars from Crimea, sold as a slave in Constantinople, and eventually rose through the ranks of the Harem to become Suleiman's favourite.

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.

His father was a Russian Orthodox priest.