希腊正教会
希腊正教会(希腊语:Ελληνορθόδοξη Εκκλησία,英语:Greek Orthodox Church)是罗马帝国国家教会分裂后,罗马正教会的几个教会统称[1][2][3],其神学根植于早期教父以及拜占庭文化,礼拜仪式使用通用希腊语[4][5][6]。与普世牧首共融。其起源于近东的早期基督教以及拜占庭帝国,当代东正教修道活动最重要的中心为在埃及西奈半岛的圣凯瑟琳修道院和以及马其顿的阿索斯山。
东西教会大分裂时与罗马天主教会各分东西,并与斯拉夫等正教会共融成为东正教会。
沿革
希腊正教的起源可以追溯到公元一世纪的巴尔干和中东地区教会[7][8][9][10][11][12][13],它保留了许多古代教会的传统。[13]希腊正教以及普世正教会不像天主教一样以单一主教管辖,如教宗,而是由多个自主教会组成一个群集。并由君士坦丁堡普世牧首为平等的精神领袖。
希腊正教重视与其他东正教教会(如俄罗斯东正教)的团结与交流。东正教有着共同的教义和崇拜仪式,他们认为自己不是一个个独立的教会,而是作为同一个教会的一小部分。希腊正教最著名的是其保有丰富意象的传统(参见:拜占庭艺术)、对上帝和圣母的崇拜、以及使用可以追溯到公元四世纪,由圣约翰创立的富有东正教特色的事奉圣礼。
现今有部分希腊东正教徒,其祖先历史可以追溯到拜占庭和奥斯曼时期,他们的祖先使用阿拉伯语或希腊语,生活在土耳其南部、以色列、巴勒斯坦、伊拉克、叙利亚、黎巴嫩、约旦和埃及。他们使用阿拉伯语且保持了拜占庭的希腊文化传统。[14][15][16]君士坦丁堡在基督教创立以来的前八个世纪,其在罗马帝国的影响范围内是基督教最重要的智慧,文化和社会发展与传承中心[16][17][18][19],而今日希腊正教的大多数仪式、传统和做法至今仍然在君士坦丁堡教会运作。于公元10世纪,希腊正教使得斯拉夫民族开始发展文明以及与其他欧洲国家接触,并发展出了斯拉夫正教会礼仪。[20][21] [22][22][23][23][24]
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君士坦丁堡普世牧首区的徽章
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希腊人于1548年在威尼斯建立的圣乔治教堂
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于1995年慕尼黑的诸圣教堂
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在伊斯坦布尔的圣三一教堂
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The distinctive characteristics of the Greek Orthodox Church are its sense of continuity with the ancient Church of Christ and the Apostles and its changelessness. The Orthodox church traces its existence, through the ordinatinon of Bishops. directly back to the Apostles and through them to Jesus.
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The Eastern Orthodox and thye Roman Catholic Churches are the oldest with roots going back to the earliest Christian groups.
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The Orthodox Church traces its origins to the churches founded by the apostles in the Middle East and the Balkans in the first century.
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Catholicism holds that if a Church claims to be Christian, then it must be able to show that its leaders-its bishops and its presbyters (or priests)- are successors of the apostles. That is why the Catholic Church accepts Eastern Orthodox ordinations and sacraments as valid, even though Eastern Orthodoxy is not in full communion with Rome.
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EASTERN ORTHODOXY, one of the major branches of CHRISTIANITY, characterized by its continuity with the apostolic church, its liturgy, and its territorial churches.
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