Eastern Orthodoxy

The greatest threat to the Byzantine Empire is said to have come from Muslims, though the Roman Catholics from Western Europe very nearly destroyed them at one point, and it is easy to imagine they might have survived if they had not got "help" from the crusaders.

Nowhere, it remained in Constantinople, and is still there today.

God said to "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's (Matthew 22:21). God therefore has no need of our money.

The Orthodox Church follows the Old Testament practice of decorating the Temple of the Lord God in a manner that is fitting for His holy house. Gold was used to decorate the Jewish Temple in accordance with the instructions received from God Himself. This was to create a place of worship that gave us a taste of the riches of Heaven.

However, in addition to decorating the churches, Orthodox Christians are also required to perform good works, such as giving alms (charity) and helping those in need. Both are important in loving God and loving our neighbours.

When the expensive fragrant oil was used on Jesus before His burial, Judas Iscariot said, "Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor? This he said , not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief..." (John 12:5-6) And Jesus replied: "For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always."

Jesus did not criticize the gold decorations of the Temple, but He drove out the money changers doing business in the Temple (John 2:14-16).

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with decorating churches, so long as we also remember to give to the needy as well. Both are important, not just one or the other.

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I am a coptic orthodox , I do not belive that there is a specific wood that you paint an icon on, but I may be wrong, condidering all of the rites and rituals in our church

From the creation of the Church since the issue of the Edict of Milan in 313 AD/ CE and the Nicinian Creed in 380 there were two religious leaders the Pope who was sited in Roma and the Patriarch in Constantinople who still is the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The Eastern Orthodox Church uses the Bible. The books in their Canon are slightly different than that of the Roman Catholic, but they also use 3 Maccabees, Psalm 151, and 1 Esdras.

The people of Kiev after having newly come to Christ and having been inspired by the vision of God dwelling among men to worship Him in splendor and humility in right praise excelled in civilization and education.

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The Orthodox Church is organized into several regional, autocephalous (governed by their own head bishops) churches. The Patriarch of Constantinople has the honor of primacy, but does not carry the same authority as the Pope does in Catholicism.

The word for the monastery is convent for the Christianity and it is valid for both male and female. There is also the term nunnery for the Catholic church

'Cause at that time there wasn't any more mighty and cultural naighbour around Kievan Russia than Byzantine Empire. And its princes like Oleg and Sviatoslav I of Kiev along with their wariors were very familiar with this Empire through their raids on Constantinopolis.

He set himself up as a rival king in the West in 800 AD, and this offensive act caused the beginning of tensions between the Orthodox Emperor in Constantinople and the barbarian rulers of the West. This increased the separation and differences between the Latin West with the Orthodox East and eventually led to the Great Schism of 1054 AD.

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Both faiths use several variants of a cross for specific situations. The standard Catholic Cross is the simple short horizontal bar over the long vertical bar, and is a representation of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. The Russian Orthodox Cross has three crossbars, a short one and a longer one at the top and a crooked one at the bottom. What these bars represent depends upon various beliefs and interpretations.

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Approx 10 million

There are several 'orthodox' churches. Each may have a different yiew

I believe its archbishop paisios from st. Irene chrysovalantou in astoria queens.

From the way it sounds, it seems you are referring to the Altar.

Eastern Orthodoxy is a Christian denomination (it is the second largest, in fact, with Roman Catholicism first). Thus, the prophets are all the Christian prophets written about in the Old Testament. For example: Moses, Abraham, Ezekiel, etc.

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