Among Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Christians, the exchange of rings is not technically part of the wedding service, but rather are exchanged at the betrothal.

In Orthodox icons, he is often depicted looking up into heaven and dictating his Gospel ( or the Book of Revelation ) to his disciple, traditionally named Prochorus.

Apocalypse depicted in Eastern Orthodox Church | Christian Orthodox traditional fresco scenes in Osogovo Monastery, Republic of Macedonia

Because of his Judeo-Christian origin and iconoclasm, Michael II was not popular among Orthodox clergy, who depicted him as an ignorant and poorly educated peasant, but Michael II was a competent statesman and administrator.

Protestants, most significantly starting with Martin Luther, who wrote the 95 Theses, and Evangelical Christians not following the rites of Latin Catholic and Orthodox Christian denominations, have formally taught that the Bishop of Rome, along with the Catholic Church, greatly abused the original teachings and practices of the primitive or original Christian church as depicted in the Acts of the Apostles.

In the Roman Catholic Church ( and some Anglo-Catholic and Western Rite Orthodox churches ), the Passion story is depicted in the Stations of the Cross ( via crucis, also translated more literally as " Way of the Cross ").

" The three angels Christian symbolism | symbolize the Trinity, which is rarely depicted directly in Orthodox art.

Another title of God is ho on ( Greek: Ο Ων ), often depicted in Orthodox iconography, literally meaning he who is or he who exists but usually translated as the living God or " I Am that I Am ".

King David III Kuropalates of Tao-Klarjeti as depicted on a bas-relief from the 10th century Georgian Orthodox monastery of Oshki in modern Erzurum Province of present-day Turkey.

Hasidic and Orthodox communities in Williamsburg are depicted in Chaim Potok's novels < i > The Chosen </ i > ( 1967 ), < i > The Promise ,</ i > and < i > My Name Is Asher Lev .</ i >

In Franny and Zooey, she is depicted reading The Way of a Pilgrim, an anonymous Orthodox Christian classic, which contributes to her spiritual and emotional breakdown.

The Nine Saints ( not all in icon ) of Ethiopian Orthodox Church depicted on the mural in the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, Axum, Ethiopia.

Depictions of Icons bearing the image of God the Father were forbidden in the Orthodox Church, unless depicted in the context of the Revelation or Apocalypse of Saint John, where God the Father is described as an older version of Jesus.

A rare example of a Russian Orthodox saint who is depicted with a lestovka is St Seraphim of Sarov, who was not an Old Believer.

Seeing, as usual, all things now being refracted into Trinities ( and using the pun: " Ham " in Russian, along with a Biblical character's name, meaning ' lout ', ' boor ') the author depicted three " faces of Ham ' stvo " ( son of Noah's new incarnation as kind of nasty, God-jeering scoundrel Russian ): the past ( Russian Orthodox Church's hypocrisy ), the present ( state bureaucracy and monarchy ) and the future — massive " boorish upstart rising up from society's bottom ".

It appears that an Orthodox girl in the community disrupted plans for an outing sponsored by one of the Jewish service groups because she would not travel on Saturday and, in addition, required kosher food.

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.

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

Saint Alcuin ( Alcuin of York ) is considered as a saint by all the main branches of Christianity: Roman Catholic, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Pobedonostsev awakened in his pupil little love of abstract study or prolonged intellectual exertion, but instilled into the young man's mind the belief that zeal for Russian Orthodox thought was an essential factor of Russian patriotism to be cultivated by every right-minded emperor.

One of the terms of the marriage contract agreed to by Alexei was that while any forthcoming children were to be raised in the Orthodox faith, Charlotte herself was allowed to retain her Protestant faith ( an agreement that did not sit well at all with Alexei's followers ).

Ibn Yasin certainly had the ardor of a puritan zealot, his creed was mainly characterized by a rigid formalism and a strict adherence to the dictates of the Qur ' an, and the Orthodox tradition.

Surviving medieval art is primarily religious in focus and funded largely by the State, Roman Catholic or Orthodox church, powerful ecclesiastical individuals, or wealthy secular patrons.

The lack of apostolic succession through bishops is the primary basis on which Protestant communities are not considered churches by the Orthodox churches and the Roman Catholic Church.

The Patriarchate of Alexandria ( Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria and Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ) claims to have been founded by Saint Mark.

Some Protestants feel that such claims of apostolic succession are proven false by the differences in traditions and doctrines between these churches: Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox consider both the Church of the East and the Oriental Orthodox churches to be heretical, having been anathematized in the early ecumenical councils of Ephesus ( 431 ) and Chalcedon ( 451 ) respectively.

The Catholic and Orthodox Churches consider invalid as a sacrament the administration of Anointing of the Sick by such chaplains, who in the eyes of those Churches are not validly ordained priests.

* 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

After the arrival of missionaries in the late 18th century, many Aleuts became Christian by joining the Russian Orthodox Church.

In The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, popular author and text critic Bart D. Ehrman argues that the Adoptionist Theology may date back almost to the time of Jesus and his view is shared by many other scholars.

He is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church, Oriental and Eastern Orthodox churches, the Lutherans, and the Anglican Communion.

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat () or Pokrovsky Cathedral ()-both are official names used by the Russian Orthodox Church-also known as the Cathedral of St. Vasily the Blessed but popularly as Saint Basil's Cathedral (), is a Russian Orthodox church erected on Red Square in Moscow in 1555 – 61 on orders from Ivan the Terrible.

Saint Tikhon of Moscow (, – ), born Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin (), was the 11th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early years of the Soviet Union, 1917 through 1925.

Basil the Blessed ( known also as Basil, fool for Christ ; Basil, Wonderworker of Moscow ; or Blessed Basil of Moscow, fool for Christ, Vasily Blazhenny ) is a Russian Orthodox saint of the type known as yurodivy or " holy fool for Christ ".

* Holy Vasily, Russian Orthodox saint

* Vasily of Pavlovsky Posad, Russian Orthodox saint

Vasily Nemoy died later that year, and the power of the regency devolved upon his younger brother, Prince Ivan Vasilievich Shuysky, who began his rule by ousting Metropolitan Daniel from office and contriving the election of Joasaphus Skripitsin as the new head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Practical religious rituals of Troyebratstvo ( including all the traditional Russian Orthodox elements, organized into highly unusual, rather risqué kind of family spectacle ) by many was seen as most blatant blasphemy and divided the St. Petersburg intellectual elite: Vasily Rozanov was fascinated by the thinly veiled eroticism of the happening, while among those outraged was Nikolai Berdyaev.

Eulogius (, secular name Vasily Semyonovich Georgiyevsky ; 1868 – 1946 ) was metropolitan of Western Europe of the Russian Orthodox Church.

In her teens Victoria fell in love with her maternal first cousin Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, but they could not marry because the Orthodox Christian religion forbids the marriage between first cousins.

Patriarch Alexy I ( Alexius I,, secular name Sergey Vladimirovich Simanskiy, ; – April 17, 1970 ) was the 13th Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church ( ROC ) between 1945 and 1970.

Alexander Vladimirovich Men (; 20 January 1935 – 9 September 1990 ) was a Russian Orthodox priest, theologian, Biblical scholar and writer.