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- ...n are generally called the Latin Fathers, and those who wrote in Greek the Greek Fathers. The very earliest Church Fathers, of the first two generations af ...of Milan]], and St. [[Jerome]], the translator of the [[Vulgate]]; famous Greek Fathers include St. [[Irenaeus of Lyons]] (whose work has survived only in3 KB (444 words) - 20:20, 17 January 2025
- The title ''Theotokos'' (in Greek, Θεοτόκος) is a Greek word that means "God-bearer" or "Birth-giver to God." ...s'' (Θεοφορος) is the Greek term usually and more correctly translated as ''God-bearer'', so using ''Go20 KB (3,268 words) - 12:50, 19 January 2025
- ...tapolis (an ancient [[diocese]] in Cyrenaica, in what is now Libya) by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Sophronios in 1889. ...o account the resolution of the Church to rank Saint Nektarios amongst the saints because of his innumerable miracles and his acceptance within the religious12 KB (1,832 words) - 15:07, 18 January 2025
- The most literal translation of the Greek word εικονογραφία (''eikonographia'') is "image writing," leadi ...priate for icons and that appropriate for other kinds of painting, just as Greek does.10 KB (1,534 words) - 13:34, 18 January 2025
- ...y in the contemporary West) as the '''Eastern Orthodox Church''' or the '''Greek Orthodox Church'''. It may also be called the Orthodox Catholic Church, th ...ubtracted from that deposit of faith which was "handed once for all to the saints" (Jude 3). Throughout history, various [[heresy|heresies]] have afflicted11 KB (1,671 words) - 12:46, 1 February 2025
- In both the Greek and Slavonic Euchologion, in the canon for the departure of the soul by St. ...Homilies/dp/0966700023 ''Counsels from the Holy Mountain,''] St. Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monastery, Arizona, 1999, pp. 436, 447.</ref> <ref>Cavarnos, Const19 KB (3,240 words) - 19:12, 17 January 2025
- ...ly Apostles briefly became the seat of the Ecumenical [[Patriarch]] of the Greek Orthodox Church. In 1461, however, it was taken over by the Ottomans and de ...atrium. The relics of [[Constantine the Great|Constantine]] and the three saints were re-installed in the new church, and a mausoleum for Justinian and his6 KB (1,017 words) - 16:09, 18 January 2025
- ...dox Metropolia of North and South America and the British Isles''' is an [[Greek Old Calendarists|Old Calendarist]] jurisdiction which originally comprised ...chate, Moscow Patriarchate, Antiochian Patriarchate, Serbian Patriarchate, Greek New Calendarists, etc, and those in union with them] to be valid or grace-13 KB (1,968 words) - 19:36, 17 January 2025
- ...ia'', "state of," "property of," "place of"). A literal translation of the Greek word would be "to talk about God." However, Orthodoxy has privileged the me ...defend, or promote religious topics. Theology had its origin in classical Greek thought, but was given new senses within the Christian context as the Fathe2 KB (225 words) - 12:38, 19 January 2025
- The word ''apostle'' comes from the Greek αποστολος, literal ...r saints have the [[saint titles|epithet]] "[[Equal-to-the-Apostles]]" (in Greek, Ισαποστολο&si9 KB (1,334 words) - 08:05, 18 January 2025
- ...the saints '''Athanasius of Alexandria''' (also spelled "Athanasios"; from Greek, "immortal") was a bishop of Alexandria and major theological writer in the Athansius was also the first to introduce the forty-day Lent to the Greek Churches in Egypt through his writing of Festal Letter XII around 337.4 KB (619 words) - 08:25, 18 January 2025
- ...ticularly by [[Plotinus]], Augustine was important to the "[[baptism]]" of Greek thought and its entrance into the Western Christian (and subsequently the E ...endorsement of his [[theology]] mentioned (just as there is none for most saints of the Church):11 KB (1,671 words) - 08:35, 18 January 2025
- Our father among the saints '''John (Maximovitch), Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco''' (1896-19 ...school and serving, at the request of local Greeks and Macedonians, in the Greek language. With the growth of his popularity, the [[bishop]]s of the Russian7 KB (1,057 words) - 13:56, 18 January 2025
- ...ic Church]]. During his early adult life he traveled extensively, learning Greek and Hebrew, while pursing his rhetorical and philosophical studies. Among t ...le in Rome Jerome studied under Aelius Donatus as well as learning [[Koine Greek]]. From Rome he traveled into Gaul and on to Trier where he apparently bega4 KB (619 words) - 13:47, 18 January 2025
- Irenaeus is thought to have been a Greek from [[Polycarp of Smyrna|Polycarp]]'s hometown of Smyrna in Asia Minor, no ...xists in a wooden Latin translation, made shortly after its publication in Greek, and Books IV and V are present in a literal Armenian translation.10 KB (1,663 words) - 13:39, 18 January 2025
- '''[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/saints.asp?contentid=389 Greek:]''' [[Category:Saints]]4 KB (630 words) - 20:07, 17 January 2025
- ...ng the [[Three Holy Hierarchs]] (feast day, [[January 30]]), together with Saints [[Basil the Great]] and [[Gregory the Theologian]]. Another feast day assoc *[http://orthodoxchurchquotes.com/category/sayings-from-saints-elders-and-fathers/st-john-chrysostom/ Quotes from St. John Chrysostom] -15 KB (2,548 words) - 13:58, 18 January 2025
- ...ers him a [[saint]] and one of the [[Three Holy Hierarchs]], together with Saints [[Gregory the Theologian]] (Gregory Nazianzus) and [[John Chrysostom]]. Bas ...is also remembered on [[January 30]] with the [[Three Holy Hierarchs]]. In Greek tradition, he is supposed to visit children and give presents every [[Janua10 KB (1,582 words) - 19:48, 17 January 2025
- ...d his mother was named [[Nonna]] ([[August 5|Aug. 5]]); both are among the saints, and so are his brother Caesarius ([[March 9|Mar. 9]]) and his sister [[Gor ...ing. In the beauty of his writings, he is considered to have surpassed the Greek writers of antiquity, and because of his God-inspired theological thought,6 KB (1,005 words) - 14:40, 1 February 2025
- '''Monasticism''' (from Greek: μοναχός, a solitary person) is the ancient Christian practice of wi ...ity in which the monks lived in individual huts or rooms—cells (from Greek κελλια)—but worked, ate, and w12 KB (1,946 words) - 14:36, 18 January 2025
