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.

Some Eastern Orthodox Churches have issued statements to the effect that Anglican orders could be accepted, yet have still reordained former Anglican clergy ; other Orthodox churches have rejected Anglican orders altogether.

** April 6 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

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** August 6 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

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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.

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In the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, the Abbot is referred to as the Hegumen.

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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.

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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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In even greater degree the same rule applied to the remainder of Eastern Europe, where the upper classes had generally collaborated with the Nazis, even to the extent of sending millions of their peasants into Russia as a part of Hitler's armies.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

It may also be intended to mean the numerals used by Arabs, in which case it generally refers to the Eastern Arabic numerals.

The literary language norm, which is generally based on the Eastern dialects, also has the Eastern alternating reflex of yat.

The Baltic languages are generally thought to form a single family with two branches, Eastern and Western.

The first year of the Eastern Front offensive can generally be considered to have had the last successful major mobile operation for the German army.

These churches are generally not in communion with Eastern Orthodox Churches with whom they are in dialogue for erecting a communion.

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.

In Eastern Christianity and other icon-painting Christian traditions, the icon is generally a flat panel painting depicting a holy being or object such as Jesus, Mary, saints, angels, or the cross.

In Eastern Orthodoxy and other icon-painting Christian traditions, the icon is generally a flat panel ( generally of wood ) painting depicting a holy being or object such as Jesus, Mary, saints, angels, or the cross.

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.

It was generally supported by the Eastern, poorer, non-Greek peoples of the Empire who had to deal frequently with raids from Arab lands.

After the demise of the Eastern Hunnic Empire, the Tele people of Kazakhstan, known in Chinese annals as Tiele, formed tribal unions that became a coveted attraction for the Hunnic successors, but they generally retained independence of their unions.

The country is generally perceived as Eastern and central Africa's hub for Financial, Communication and Transportation services.

Central and Eastern European slaves were generally known as Saqaliba ( i. e., Slavs ).

The group adopted a Middle Eastern theme and soon established Temples meeting in Mosques ( though the term Temple has now generally been replaced by Shrine Auditorium or Shrine Center ).

Living standards and democratic governance generally improved in many areas of the world, notably East Asia, much of Eastern Europe, Latin America, and South Africa.

Eastern Orthodox theologians are generally critical of the theory that Gregory was influenced by neoplatonism.

Eastern art has generally worked in a style akin to Western medieval art, namely a concentration on surface patterning and local colour ( meaning the plain colour of an object, such as basic red for a red robe, rather than the modulations of that colour brought about by light, shade and reflection ).

Roman Catholics recognize the validity of the apostolic successions of the bishops, and therefore the rest of the clergy, of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Church of the East, and the Old Catholic Church ( Union of Utrecht only ).

Both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches recognize seven councils in the early centuries of the church, but Roman Catholics also recognize fourteen councils in later times called or confirmed by the Pope.

While the previous seven ecumenical councils are recognized as ecumenical and authoritative by both East and West, many Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize the council of 879 as the Eighth Ecumenical Council, arguing that it annulled the earlier one.

Ultramontanism is not recognised by either Eastern or Oriental Orthodox churches, which see it as unsupported by Scripture or Tradition ; these Churches regard the Pope as having been primus inter pares when the two churches were in communion, and do not recognize the doctrines of infallibility or the Pope's alleged jurisdiction over patriarchates or autocephalous Churches other than that of Rome, except insofar as this is part of the concept of primus inter pares

While all the Eastern Catholic Churches recognize the authority of the Pope, some of them who having originally been part of the Orthodox Church or Oriental Orthodox Church closely follow the traditions of Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy, including the tradition of allowing married men to become priests.

In the Eastern Catholic Churches ( which recognize papal authority and are a part of the larger Catholic Church ), the equivalent unit is called an eparchy.

The Federal Republic of Germany did not recognize the German Democratic Republic and maintained diplomatic relations with neither the German Democratic Republic nor the other Communist states of Eastern Europe.

Following the severing of relations after the Six-Day War, Poland was the first Eastern bloc country to again recognize Israel in 1986.

Eastern religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism recognize non-humans as sentient beings.

Some twenty Pomak ( Bulgarian Muslim ) villages in the Rhodope Mountains refused to recognize Eastern Rumelian authority and formed the so-called Republic of Tamrash.

The Serbs were fully Christianized by 873, seen in the tradition of theophoric names ( e. g. Petar Gojniković, Pavle Branović ) and the fact that he maintained the communion with the Eastern Church ( Constantinople ) when Pope John VIII invited him to recognize the jurisdiction of the bishopric of Sirmium.

Meeting of a WJC delegation led by Edgar Bronfman with GDR leader Erich Honecker, in East Berlin, October 1988During the mid-1980s, the World Jewish Congress also entered into diplomatic talks with several Central and Eastern European countries, notably Communist East Germany, whose leadership the WJC urged to recognize its obligations to Jewish victims of Nazi Germany.

Where the authentic theological traditions of the Eastern Church are concerned, we must recognize the admirable way in which they have their roots in Holy Scripture, and how they are nurtured and given expression in the life of the liturgy.

In December 1938, during the visit of the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop to Paris to sign the largely meaningless Declaration of Franco-German Friendship, Ribbentrop had conversations with Bonney that he later claimed included a promise to him that France would recognize all of Eastern Europe as Germany's exclusive sphere of influence.

They deny the Doctrine of the Trinity, a central tenet of orthodox Christianity, and this refusal to recognize the triune nature of God has resulted in a major impasse between the Christadelphians / Berean Christadelphians and the Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Consequently, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox do not recognize the Bishop of Rome as the unique successor of St. Peter and consider him to be in a state of schism and heresy.

The majority of Christian Churches in the world, the ancient churches, including the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox churches, Anglican churches, and Oriental Orthodox churches, did not recognize these interpretations and did not participate in the religious movement to support them.