| Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is an international association of national Anglican churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" with universal juridical authority as each national or regional church has full autonomy. As the name suggests, the Anglican Communion is an association of these churches in full communion with the Church of England (which may be regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Anglican_Communion
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| Canonization Canonization (or canonisation) is the act by which a particular Christian church declares a deceased person to be a saint and is included in the canon, or list, of recognized saints. Originally, individuals were recognized as saints without any formal process. Canonization
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| History of Christianity Talk:History_of_Christianity
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| Herman of Alaska Saint Herman of Alaska (born 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov, Russia – died December 13 or November 15, 1837 on Spruce Island, Alaska) was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas. Herman_of_Alaska
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| Resurrection Talk:Resurrection
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| Trinity The Christian doctrine of the Trinity teaches the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead. Trinity
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| Justification (theology) Christian theology, justification is God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous before God. The concept of justification occurs in many books of the Old and New Testaments.The extent, means, and scope of justification are areas of significant debate. Justification_(theology)
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| Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai Saint Catherine's Monastery (Greek:Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of an inaccessible gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt. The monastery is Greek Orthodox and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to the UNESCO report (60100 ha / RefMonastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, also holds claim to that title. Saint_Catherine's_Monastery,_Mount_Sinai
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| John of Tobolsk Saint John of Tobolsk (1651 – 1715) was born in Uman, in the Kiev Oblast of Ukraine. He was the only one of the seven sons of Maxim Vasilkovsky Maximovitch to choose a career in the Eastern Orthodox Church, in which service he was appointed Ekonom of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra by 1678. But since Theodore of Uglich wanted someone to succeed him as Bishop of Chernigov, he appointed John Archimandrite of the Eletsky monastery there in 1695. Then, when Theodore died in 1696, John became Archbishop of Chernigov. John_of_Tobolsk
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| East–West Schism East-West Schism, or the Great Schism, divided medieval Christendom into Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches, which later became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, respectively. Relations between East and West had long been embittered by political and ecclesiastical differences and theological disputes. East–West_Schism
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| Foolishness for Christ Foolishness for Christ refers to behavior such as giving up all one's worldly possessions upon joining a monastic order. It can also refer to deliberate flouting of society's conventions to serve a religious purpose - particularly of Christianity. The term fools for Christ is attributed to Saint Paul. Foolishness_for_Christ
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| Glory (religion) Glory (from the Latin gloria, "fame, renown") is used to denote the manifestation of God's presence in the Christian religious tradition. Divine glory is an important motif throughout Christian theology, where God is regarded as the most glorious being. Since they are created in the Image of God, human beings can share or participate in divine glory as image-bearers. Glory_(religion)
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| Phronema Phronema is a Greek term that is used in Eastern Orthodox theology to refer to mindset or outlook; it is the Orthodox mind. The attaining of phronema is a matter of practicing the correct faith (orthodoxia) in the correct manner (orthopraxia). Attaining phronema is regarded as the first step toward theosis, the state of glorification. Phronema
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| Georges Florovsky Georges Vasilievich Florovsky (Russian Георгий Васильевич Флоровский) (August 23, 1893, Odessa - August 11, 1979, United States) was an Eastern Orthodox theologian, historian and pioneering ecumenist. He is considered, along with Sergei Bulgakov, Vladimir Lossky and Dumitru Stăniloae, to be one of the most important Eastern Orthodox theologians of the 20th Century. Georges_Florovsky
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| Saints Cyril and Methodius Saints_Cyril_and_Methodius
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| Seraphim of Sarov Saint Seraphim of Sarov () (July 19, 1759 - January 2 (N.S. January 14), 1833), born Prokhor Moshnin (Прохор Мошнин), is one of the most renowned Russian monks and mystics in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is generally considered the greatest of the nineteenth century Startsy (Elders), and arguably the first. Seraphim_of_Sarov
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| John of Shanghai and San Francisco John_of_Shanghai_and_San_Francisco
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| Nectarios of Aegina For the footballer, seeNektarios Alexandrou. For similarly named saints, see Nectarius.Saint Nectarios of Aegina (1846-1920), Nectarios_of_Aegina
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| Dimitry of Rostov Saint Dimitry of Rostov (sometimes Latinized as Demetrius) was a leading opponent of the Caesaropapist reform of the Russian Orthodox church promoted by Feofan Prokopovich. He is representative of the strong Ukrainian influence upon the Russian Orthodox Church at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.Born Danylo Savvich Tuptalo (or Tuptalenko, according to some sources) into a Cossack family in 1651. Dimitry_of_Rostov
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| The Protection of the Mother of God The Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, known in Church Slavonic as Pokrov (Покровъ, "protection"), and in Greek as Skepê (Σκέπη), is a feast of the Mother of God celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. The_Protection_of_the_Mother_of_God
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