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Eastern Church   /ˈistərn tʃərtʃ/   Listen
Eastern Church

noun
1.
Derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites.  Synonyms: Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Catholic Church, Orthodox Church.
2.
The Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire.  Synonym: Byzantine Church.





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... of the fourth Century of his Christian History speaks thus, Besides Hymns and Songs, and private Psalms, of which there was a great Number in their solemn Assemblies, the Psalm Book of David was brought into the Western Church in this Age in the Time of Damasus and Ambrose; but in the Eastern Church the singing of David 's Psalter by Antiphona's or Responses was brought in by Flavianus Antiochenus. The Use of Psalms compos'd by private Persons seems not to be forbidden in the Church till the Council of ...
— A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody • Isaac Watts


Words linked to "Eastern Church" :   Greek Church, Byzantine Church, bishop, Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, Orthodox Catholic Church, Greek Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, canonisation, canonization, Eastern Orthodox


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