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No, only members of the Eastern Orthodox Church can act as a sponsor/godparent for a child or adult being baptised in the Orthodox Church.
The date on which the church celebrates Easter because the Eastern/Russian Orthodox Church base it on the old Julian calendar.
Yes, Easter is the most important event in the church calendar for all Orthodox Christians throughout the world. Easter in Russia is observed by more than 100 million Russian Orthodox people.
Yes, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church does baptise members. Unless you are a baptised member, you cannot receive Holy Communion, or any other Mysteries of the Church. The word 'baptize' means to immerse in water. The Orthodox Church continues this Apostolic practice of baptising by triple immersion.
In the Western church, 1994. In the Orthodox church, 1960.
A baby only needs baptized once. You should pick which church you "mostly" like and have the baptism there. You might arrange an acknowledgement service at the other church.
Greek Orthodox Church members color their eggs red at Easter. (Red is the color of life.)
There is only one Lent in the Malankara Orthodox Church in India, which is known as the Great Lent or the 50-day Lent. It begins on Clean Monday and ends on Great and Holy Saturday, just before Easter Sunday.
Ireland celebrates Easter with the Catholic Church in Rome, as opposed to the Eastern Orthodox and other Christian Churches. So for 2010, Easter Sunday is the 4th of April and that is when Easter will be celebrated in Ireland.
The Orthodox only allow full immersion for Baptisms. Sprinkling (or aspersion) is done by Roman Catholics. An Orthodox child or adult must be submersed in water in order for a baptism to be valid. The Greek word "baptise" means to immerse, therefore sprinkling has never been allowed in the Orthodox Church.
Because the two Churches (Orthodox and Catholic) use different calendars to calculate the date of Easter (which is a movable holiday). The Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, whereas the Catholic Church uses the Gregorian calendar. The two Easters are not always a week apart (in 2007, they were on the same day), but that's usually the case.
At a baptismal font.