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.

Each year, the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the anniversary of the consecration of the Church of the Resurrection ( Holy Sepulchre ) on September 13 ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian calendar, September 13 currently falls on September 26 of the modern Gregorian calendar ).

Orthodox temples are often decorated with greenery and flowers on this feast day, and the celebration is intentionally similar to the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates the giving of the Mosaic Law.

The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the feast on 29 December.

The Orthodox Church venerates her as a Great Martyr, and celebrates her feast day on 25 November.

However, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates it on 24 November.

The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates Philip's feast day on 14 November.

The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates Saint Joseph on the Sunday after Christmas.

The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the Holy Maccabean Martyrs on August 1, the first day of the Dormition Fast.

Saint Basil died on January 1, and the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates his feast day together with that of the Feast of the Circumcision on that day.

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria celebrates the feast day of Saint Basil on the 6th of Tobi ( 6th of Terr on the Ethiopian calendar of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ).

The Macedonian Orthodox Church celebrates Saint Basil's feast on January 14.

The Eastern Orthodox Church knows Margaret as Saint Marina, and celebrates her feast day on July 17.

On the same day the Eastern Orthodox church celebrates the day of John the Baptist and the rites and traditions of both holidays are often mixed.

The Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates The Departure of St. Acacius, Patriarch of Constantinople on the 30th of the Coptic month of Hatour.

The Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates the feast of Frumentius on December 18, the Eastern Orthodox on November 30, and the Roman Catholic on October 27.

The Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Circumcision of Christ on 1 January, while Orthodox churches following the Julian calendar celebrate it on 14 January.

The Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates him on October 31, Gregorian calendar, which is October 18 in the Julian calendar.

The Syriac Orthodox Church follows the Antiochene rite that celebrates liturgy in Syriac and still carries some particular customs that are considered today as purely Judaic in nature.

The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates it on November 21 as one of its twelve Great Feasts.

After these resolutions, no Russian Orthodox Christian who wishes to remain faithful to the decisions of the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church may knowingly participate in a liturgy at which Bishop Basil celebrates as a Bishop ; nor may they receive Holy Communion from Bishop Basil.

** Synaxis of the Theotokos ( Eastern Orthodox Church )

* Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers of Heaven ( Eastern Orthodox Church )

* Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers Orthodox icon and synaxarion

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Uriel is commemorated together with the other archangels and angels with a feast day of the " Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers " on November 8 of the liturgical calendar ( for those churches which follow the Julian Calendar, November 8 falls on November 21 of the modern Gregorian Calendar ).

Because of his famous phrase " I would rather see a Turkish turban in the midst of the City ( i. e., Constantinople ) than the Latin mitre ", he is often thought to have been in league with the Synaxis and the Orthodox resistance to the Union of Churches established by the Council of Florence.

In Eastern Christianity ( the Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite ), a Synaxis (; Slavonic: Собор, Sobor ) is an assembly for liturgical purposes, generally through the celebration of Vespers, Matins, Little Hours, and the Divine Liturgy.

A Synaxis is a group of churchmen-especially in the Orthodox Church-who would otherwise compose a Synod but lack an officiating Patriarch.

The feast day of St. Andrew, the Fool-for-Christ, falls on the following day, October 2 ( in accordance with the Orthodox liturgical tradition of the Synaxis ).