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

In 1763, Greek Orthodox bishop Erasmus of the Diocese of Arcadia, visited London, where John Wesley had considerable conversation with him, and ordained several Methodist lay preachers as priests, including John Jones.

Unction in the Greek Orthodox Church and Churches of Hellenic custom ( Melkite, Antiochian Orthodox, etc.

** Antipas of Pergamum ( Greek Orthodox Church )

* Monastery of Agios Nectarios, dedicated to Saint Nectarios, a recent saint of the Greek Orthodox Church.

He is now Metropolitan Savas ( Zembillas ) of Pittsburgh in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

* Official web site of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa

Category: Greek Orthodox Patriarchs of Alexandria

The Books of the Bible are listed differently in the canons of Judaism and the Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Slavonic Orthodox, Coptic, Georgian Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac, Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches, although there is substantial overlap.

The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox receive several additional books in to their canons based upon their presence in manuscripts of the ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, the Septuagint ( although some of these books, such as Sirach and Tobit, are now known to be extant in Hebrew or Aramaic originals, being found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls ).

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.

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.

Catholic Christians, following the Canon of Trent, describe these books as deuterocanonical, meaning of " the second canon ," while Greek Orthodox Christians, following the Synod of Jerusalem ( 1672 ), use the traditional name of anagignoskomena, meaning " that which is to be read.

In 1099, Crusaders captured and fortified Bethlehem and replaced its Greek Orthodox clergy with a Latin one.

The Greek Orthodox clergy were removed from their sees and replaced with Latin clerics.

Up until that point the official Christian presence in the region was Greek Orthodox.

The Latin clerics were forced to leave, allowing the Greek Orthodox clergy to return.

The Greek Orthodox were given control of the basilica and shared control of the Milk Grotto with the Latins and the Armenians.

From 1517, during the years of Ottoman control, custody of the Basilica was bitterly disputed between the Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches.

Anatomy ( from the Ancient Greek, anatemnein: ana, " separate, apart from ", and temnein, " to cut up, cut open ") is a branch of biology and medicine that considers the structure of living things.

Described as the ruler of Aeolia ( later called Thessaly ) and held to be the founder of the Aeolic branch of the Greek nation, this Aeolus married Enarete, daughter of Deimachus ( otherwise unknown ).

Arithmetic or arithmetics ( from the Greek word ἀριθμός, arithmos " number ") is the oldest and most elementary branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple day-to-day counting to advanced science and business calculations.

A clade ( from Ancient Greek, klados, " branch ") or monophylum ( see monophyletic ) is a group consisting of an ancestor and all its descendants, a single " branch " on the " tree of life ".

Endocrinology ( from Greek, endo, " within ";, krīnō, " to separate "; and ,-logia ) is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions called hormones, the integration of developmental events such as proliferation, growth, and differentiation ( including histogenesis and organogenesis ) and the coordination of metabolism, respiration, excretion, movement, reproduction, and sensory perception depend on chemical cues, substances synthesized and secreted by specialized cells.

Ethnology ( from the Greek, ethnos meaning " people, nation, race ") is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and / or national divisions of humanity.

Greek ( ellīnika or ) ellīnikī glōssa is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages.

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family.

For the ancient Greek mathematicians, geometry was the crown jewel of their sciences, reaching a completeness and perfection of methodology that no other branch of their knowledge had attained.

Physics ( from Greek: φύσις physis " nature ") is a branch of science that developed out of philosophy, and was thus referred to as natural philosophy until the late 19th century-a term describing a field of study concerned with " the workings of nature ".

In one branch of Greek mythology, Hera ejected Hephaestus from the heavens because he was " shrivelled of foot ".

Microeconomics ( from Greek prefix micro-" μικρό " meaning " small " + " economics "- " οικονομια ") is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of individual households and firms in making decisions on the allocation of limited resources.

Macroeconomics ( from Greek prefix " makros -" meaning " large " + " economics ") is a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of the whole economy.

Mechanics ( Greek ) is the branch of science concerned with the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment.

Mycology ( from the Greek μύκης, mukēs, meaning " fungus ") is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, medicinals ( e. g., penicillin ), food ( e. g., beer, wine, cheese, edible mushrooms ) and entheogens, as well as their dangers, such as poisoning or infection.

Nephrology ( from Greek νεφρός – nephros, " kidney ", combined with the suffix-logy, " the study of ") is a branch of internal medicine and pediatrics dealing with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney.

Psychophysiology ( from Greek, psȳkhē, " breath, life, soul ";, physis, " nature, origin "; and ,-logia ) is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes.

Pharmacology ( from Greek, pharmakon, " poison " in classic Greek ; " drug " in modern Greek ; and ,-logia " study of ", " knowledge of ") is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drug action, where a drug can be broadly defined as any man-made, natural, or endogenous ( within the cell ) molecule which exerts a biochemical and / or physiological effect on the cell, tissue, organ, or organism.

The term, which was spelled semeiotics, derives from the Greek σημειωτικός, ( sēmeiōtikos ), " observant of signs " ( from σημεῖον-sēmeion, " a sign, a mark ") and it was first used in English by Henry Stubbes in a very precise sense to denote the branch of medical science relating to the interpretation of signs.

Toxicology ( from the Greek words τοξικός-toxicos " poisonous " and logos ) is a branch of biology, chemistry, and medicine concerned with the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms.

Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work with the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers contributed significantly to English Christianity, making the writings much more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons.

In the Consolation, Boethius answered religious questions without reference to Christianity, relying solely on natural philosophy and the Classical Greek tradition.

In the beginning of Christendom, early Christianity was a religion spread in the Greek / Roman world and beyond as a 1st century Jewish sect, which historians refer to as Jewish Christianity.

The earliest recorded use of the terms Christianity ( Greek ) and Catholic ( Greek ), dates to this period, the 2nd century, attributed to Ignatius of Antioch c. 107.

A convert to Christianity, he was an educated man who was familiar with classical Greek philosophy and literature.

The Greek language holds an important place in the histories of Europe, the more loosely defined Western world, and Christianity ; the canon of ancient Greek literature includes works of monumental importance and influence for the future Western canon, such as the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey.

The origin of Christianity can also be traced through Koine Greek, as the Apostles used it to preach in Greece and the Greek-speaking world.

After the adoption of Christianity in Bulgaria in 865, religious ceremonies and Divine Liturgy were conducted in Greek by clergy sent from the Byzantine Empire, using the Byzantine rite.

Maximilian was succeeded in 1576 by Rudolf II, a strange man who preferred classical Greek philosophy to Christianity and lived an isolated existence in Bohemia.

Under the Byzantines, Christianity was dominated by the ( Greek ) Orthodox Church.

Since the 1st and 2nd century AD, Christianity had become the established religion in Byzantium, supplanting pagan polytheism and eclipsing for the most part the humanistic world outlook and institutions inherited from the Greek and Roman civilizations.

The Fall of Constantinople and the death of the last Greek Orthodox Christian emperor contributed to this new idea of Moscow as ' New Rome ' and the seat of Orthodox Christianity.

Another factor, more recently pointed out, was the way in which Christianity combined its promise of a general resurrection of the dead with the traditional Greek belief that true immortality depended on the survival of the body, with Christianity adding practical explanations of how this was going to actually happen at the end of the world.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

An icon ( from Greek eikōn " image ") is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and in certain Eastern Catholic churches.

However, scholar Helmut Koester has pointed out the Greek title " Memorabilia " was not applied to Xenophon's work until the Middle Ages, and it is more likely apomnemoneumata was used to describe the oral transmission of the sayings of Jesus in early Christianity.

Papyrus has a life of at most a century or two in relatively moist Italian or Greek conditions ; only those works copied onto parchment, usually after the general conversion to Christianity, have survived, and by no means all of those.

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Gnosticism was an important development of ( and departure from ) early Christianity, blending Jewish scriptures and Christian teachings with traditional pagan religion and esoteric Greek philosophical concepts.