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

Athanasius is venerated as a Christian saint, whose feast day is 2 May in Western Christianity, 15 May in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and 18 January in the other Eastern Orthodox Churches.

The Greek Orthodox branch of Christianity continues to use the Greek translation ( the Septuagint ), but when a Latin translation ( called the Vulgate ) was made for the Western church, Kingdoms was first retitled the Book of Kings, parts One to Four, and eventually both Kings and Samuel were separated into two books each.

The main religions are Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism, and Sunni Islam.

Worldwide the three largest groups of Christianity are the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the various denominations of Protestantism.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also traces its heritage to the foundation of Christianity through Apostolic succession and has an episcopal structure, though the autonomy of the individual, mostly national churches is emphasized.

The main religions of Croatia are Roman Catholicism ( 87. 8 %), Orthodox Christianity ( 4. 4 %) and Islam ( 1. 3 %).

Eastern Orthodox Christianity does not officially condemn or endorse capital punishment.

Clement is regarded as a Church Father, and he is venerated as a saint in Orthodox Christianity, Eastern Catholicism and Anglicanism.

" This is called the doctrine of the hypostatic union, which is still held today amongst all Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christians, referred to as Chalcedonian Christianity.

Some Christian denominations hold that salvation depends upon transformational faith in Jesus, which expresses itself in good works as a testament ( or witness ) to ones faith for others to see ( primarily Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism ), while others ( including most Protestants ) hold that faith alone is necessary for salvation.

Eastern Orthodox Christianity emphasizes a continuing life of repentance or metanoia, which includes an increasing improvement in thought, belief and action.

The combination of state autocracy and state religion was instilled in much of Europe, particularly in the lands which adopted Orthodox Christianity.

In the 5th century, Oriental Orthodoxy separated from Chalcedonian Christianity ( and is therefore separate from both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches ), well before the 11th century Great Schism.

Gogol's work is very different from the western European gothic fiction, as he is influenced by Ukrainian folklore, Cossack lifestyle and, being a very religious man, Orthodox Christianity.

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

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

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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.

The largest branches of Christianity are the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Protestant churches.

Women's hair may be hidden using headscarves, a common part of the hijab in Islam and a symbol of modesty required for certain religious rituals in Orthodox Christianity.

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.

Three additional narratives are preserved in the Septuagint and the Theodotion versions, and are considered apocryphal by Protestant Christians and Jews, and deuterocanonical by Catholic and Orthodox Christians.

Some Christian denominations ( such as Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox ), include a number of books that are not in the Hebrew Bible ( the biblical apocrypha or deuterocanonical books or Anagignoskomena, see Development of the Old Testament canon ) in their biblical canon that are not in today's Jewish canon, although they were included in the Septuagint.

When Orthodox theologians use the term " deuterocanonical ," it is important to note that the meaning is not identical to the Roman Catholic usage.

The Eastern Orthodox books included in the Old Testament are the seven deuterocanonical books listed above, plus 3 Maccabees and 1 Esdras ( also included in the Clementine Vulgate ), while Baruch is divided from the Epistle of Jeremiah, making a total of 49 Old Testament books in contrast with the Protestant 39-book canon.

The Catholic Church, the Orthodox Churches and some Protestants recognize an additional set of Jewish writings, known as the deuterocanonical books.

Protestant Christians place it in the Apocrypha, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox among the deuterocanonical books.

The content, to which the Protestant Old Testament closely corresponds, does not act as source to the deuterocanonical portions of the Roman Catholic, nor to the portions of the Eastern Orthodox Old Testaments.

The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Jews and Protestants.

An edition of the ESV with the Biblical apocrypha — the books of the Protestant apocrypha, called the deuterocanonical books or anagignoskomena of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testaments, respectively, not to be confused with those books called " apocrypha " by Catholics and Orthodox, such as 1 Enoch, 4 Esdras, the Martyrdom and Ascension of Isaiah, etc., often called " pseudepigrapha " by Protestants — was developed by Oxford University Press and published in January, 2009.

It is accepted as a deuterocanonical book by some Orthodox Christians, though it does not appear in Bibles printed in Greece.

In the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, what are called the apocrypha by Protestants include the deuterocanonical books: in the Catholic tradition, the term " apocrypha " is synonymous with what Protestants would called the pseudepigrapha, the latter term of which is almost exclusively used by scholars.

Some editions of the Oxford Annotated Bible also include the apocryphal and deuterocanonical books used by the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek and Slavonic Orthodox Churches, as well as churches of the Anglican Communion ( including The Episcopal Church ); these editions are titled the " Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha ".

" He considered it a privilege to present the NRSV — which includes the books referred to as Apocrypha by Protestants, though Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox consider them deuterocanonical — to Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Demetrius I of Constantinople.

By no means do all Jews today believe in reincarnation, but belief in reincarnation is not uncommon among many Jews, including Orthodox.

Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, and some Protestants teach the Sacrament of Baptism is the means by which each person's damaged human nature is healed and Sanctifying Grace ( capacity to enjoy and participate in the spiritual life of God ) is restored.

Orthodox Christians use the term " Anagignoskomena " ( a Greek word that means " readable ", " worthy of reading ") for the ten books that they accept but that are not in the Protestant 39-book Old Testament canon.

Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Christians have an understanding of what full communion means that is very similar to that of the Catholic Church.

The denomination's name Nichiren Shōshū means " Orthodox Nichiren School ".

The Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodoxy, and most evangelical Protestants oppose deliberate abortion as immoral, while allowing what is sometimes called indirect abortion, namely, an action that does not seek the death of the fetus as an end or a means but that is followed by the death as a side effect.

Orthodox Jewish teachings sanction abortion as a means of safeguarding the life of the woman.

Instead, the Eastern Church has emphasized the role of the Holy Spirit in the Christian's life and has maintained ascetic disciplines such as fasting and prayer ( the minimum fast obligatory on Orthodox faithful is two days weekly ), not as a way to make satisfaction for past sins or to build up merit, but as a means of spiritual discipline to help reduce one's susceptibility to temptation in the future to exercise self control, and to avoid being enslaved to one's passions and desires.

Likewise, the Commission acknowledged that " unacceptable means " were used in attempts to force Eastern Catholics to return to the Orthodox Church ( paragraph 11 ).

Bulgaria functioned as the hub of Slavic Europe during much of the Middle Ages, exerting considerable literary and cultural influence over the Eastern Orthodox Slavic world by means of the Preslav and Ohrid Literary Schools.

Members of theses ethnocultural communities still call themselves Rûm which means " Eastern Roman " or " Asian Greek ", and thus, by extension, Melkite Christian i. e. Antiochite and Jerusalemite Greek Orthodox or Greek Catholic Christian in modern Levantine Arabic-spoken in Syria, Lebanon, Northern Israel, the West Bank and the Adana and Hatay provinces of Turkey.

The practice slowly spread among the Russian Orthodox, though it is not by any means a standard service in all parishes, or even most cathedrals or monasteries.

This means that despite current political issues, the Metropolis of Bessarabia is now recognized as " the rightful successor " to the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and Hotin, which existed from 1927 to 1944, when it was dissolved, its canonical territory being put under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church's Moscow Patriarchate in 1947.

Early orphanages, called " orphanotrophia ", were founded by the Orthodox Church in the 1st century amid various alternative means of orphan support.

A minority of Orthodox Christians regarded this as a surrender of the Orthodox Church to the West and to the Pope and continued following the old calendar ; some of these also broke communion with those who had adopted the new calendar, thus creating their own church, or denomination, which means in the Latin " to take a new name ".

Rather, it is a word that means, globally, all that Orthodox do.

A mechitza most commonly means the physical divider placed between the men's and women's sections in Orthodox synagogues and at religious celebrations.

The word Mitzvah means a " commandment " of the Torah in Orthodox Judaism, but also carries with it the connotation of a good deed.

The reason was that given limited financial resources available to the Orthodox community, a tactical decision was made so that its goals would be able to continue through other means.

The historicity of Boswell's interpretation of the ceremony is contested by the Greek Orthodox Church, which sees the rite as a rite of familial adoption, as the term adelphopoiesis literally means " brother making ".

On another occasion he stated that " the forces of Darkness cannot stand it Greece is a predominantly Orthodox country, and for this reason they want to decapitate it and flatten everything, by means of globalization, the novel deity that has appeared alongside another deity called human rights, and on account of which they expect us to curtail our own rights ".

The archbishop has attributed human rights to a ploy by Satan on a second occasion, stating that " the forces of Darkness cannot stand it Greece is a predominantly Orthodox country, and for this reason they want to decapitate it and flatten everything, by means of globalization, the novel deity that has appeared alongside another deity called human rights, and on account of which they expect us to curtail our own rights ".