Council,  Canon

  1 Intro  |       canonical praxis of the whole Orthodox Church. For the historian
  2 Intro  |        received canons in the Greek Orthodox Church. In 1800, the first
  3 Intro  |           untouchable expression of Orthodox canon law, such an attitude
  4 Intro  |            24~ For a long time, the Orthodox Slavs were content to reproduce
  5 Intro  |           canonist as the father of Orthodox canonical studies in the
  6 Intro  |     consisting of the canons of the Orthodox Church with commentaries
  7 Intro  |        today as a reference work by Orthodox canonists. As for canonical
  8 Intro  |            the West but also in the Orthodox East. Patriarch Dositheos
  9 Intro  |  constitutes the historical core of Orthodox canon law. This appears
 10 Intro  |         universally accepted in the Orthodox Church did not introduce
 11 Intro  |           institutions but also all Orthodox practitioners of canon law,
 12   1”,2 |           had been converted to the Orthodox faith from the life of a
 13   1”,8 |            bishop where there is no Orthodox bishop of the catholic Church.
 14   1”,8 |             church there is also an Orthodox bishop, the latter shall
 15   1”,8 |          with this arrangement, the Orthodox bishop must allow him to
 16   1”,14|            taught the dogmas of the Orthodox faith. They were divided
 17   1”,19|      identically the same manner as Orthodox Christians). But if some
 18   1”,19|     ordained clergymen before their Orthodox baptism, because the prelates
 19   1”,19|            being rebaptized with an Orthodox baptism, if their life appears
 20   1”,19|          Bishop of the catholic and Orthodox Church, since the former
 21   1”,19|     baptized in accordance with the Orthodox faith receive a visitation
 22   1”,19|              in other words, if any Orthodox Bishop has ordained any
 23   1”,20|      Pentecost — may be kept in all Orthodox churches the world over,
 24   2    |             of its being thoroughly Orthodox in all respects. Hence,
 25   2    |            which is now read by all Orthodox Christians, as it is seen
 26   2”,1 |     Constantinople decided that the Orthodox faith, meaning the creed
 27   2”,6 |             certain charges against Orthodox Bishops managing the churches,
 28   2”,6 |             to make charges against Orthodox Bishops in regard to ecclesiastical
 29   2”,6 |           Church inimically slander Orthodox bishops, without accomplishing
 30   2”,6 |           have been ordained in the Orthodox manner and in accordance
 31   2”,7 |            heresies and joining the Orthodox faith and the portion of
 32   2”,7 |       themselves likewise as do the Orthodox. But as for Arians and Macedonians,
 33   2”,7 |           the peculiar idiom of the Orthodox Church can hardly be said
 34   2”,7 |            aright and in a strictly Orthodox manner, wherefore they are
 35   3    |          God,” and much used in the Orthodox Church as a designation
 36   3”,1 |             to the laymen, that are Orthodox, that is to say, because
 37   3”,1 |       episcopate even by those same Orthodox bishops and surrounding
 38   3”,3 |           in their beliefs with the orthodox and ecumenical Council not
 39   3”,3 |            of the same mind as this orthodox and Ecumenical Council should
 40   4    |           its own definition of the Orthodox faith, which runs as follows (
 41   4”,14|            the person joined to the Orthodox Christian to the Orthodox
 42   4”,14|           Orthodox Christian to the Orthodox faith. If, on the other
 43   4”,14|            does not differ from the Orthodox baptism so far as concerns
 44   4”,14|      contrary, is acceptable to the Orthodox Church, they shall have
 45   4”,14|         should promise to become an Orthodox Christian, let him first
 46   4”,14|          clergyman, but also by any Orthodox Christian man or woman in
 47   4”,17|         which the catholic union of Orthodox Christians situated therein
 48   4”,18|            Greek[104] as well as of Orthodox emperors, who indeed adopted
 49   4”,30|        because it contained all the Orthodox belief of the faith), not
 50   4”,30|       because he was opposed to the Orthodox dogma which it contained,
 51   7    |        clearly and emphatically the Orthodox faith, after which they
 52   7”,1 |          enabled us to entertain an Orthodox conception of the straightforward
 53   7”,30|             been consecrated in the Orthodox manner, without the permission
 54   7”,62|        consequence thereof, and the Orthodox faith be laughed to scorn.
 55   7”,69|            their churches. Shall we Orthodox Christians imitate them?
 56   7”,71|                         72.~ Let no Orthodox man be allowed to contract
 57   7”,71|         woman, nor moreover let any Orthodox woman be married to a heretical
 58   7”,71|         admitted to the fold of the Orthodox have joined themselves to
 59   7”,71|           is not permissible for an Orthodox man to marry a heretical
 60   7”,71|          heretical woman, or for an Orthodox woman to get married to
 61   7”,71|            portion of Christ and of Orthodox Christians. Whoever transgresses
 62   7”,77|             learn the dogmas of the Orthodox faith well and on Thursday
 63   8    |      Fathers attending it, 350 were Orthodox,[257] but seventeen others
 64   8    |       Damascene, and George Cyprius Orthodox and Saints, it issued a
 65   8”,8 |      Christians and have joined the Orthodox faith, but secretly deny
 66   8”,23|           of converting them to the orthodox doctrine of the Church.
 67   8”,23|            whether they really were Orthodox Christian women; as to whether
 68   8”,23|           eunuch, though seeing the Orthodox Christians apply a conjunction
 69   8”,23|       blockaded the churches of the Orthodox in Africa and banished 120
 70   8”,23|           in their times, while the Orthodox Christians were persecuted.
 71   8”,23|         there remained but some few Orthodox saints to criticize the
 72   8”,23|        having to be anointed by the Orthodox like persons lacking by
 73   8”,23|           Damascene, Concerning the Orthodox Faith, book 3, ch. 12, and
 74   8”,23|             named Celestinus was an Orthodox Pope, whose place, as has
 75   8”,23|         Greeks who were joining the Orthodox faith, and to the Jews and
 76   8”,23|          bishops, but also by every Orthodox Christian. Nor did it forbid
 77   8”,23|           even though this alone is Orthodox. For whatever the law says,
 78   8”,23|       accedes to it. But as for the Orthodox Christians, and not this
 79   8”,23|            no one compose any other Orthodox Creed than the one of the
 80   8”,23|       permissible to offer the same Orthodox Creed itself differently
 81   8”,23|             for confirmation of the Orthodox belief, the union, I mean,
 82   8”,23|           not with reference to any Orthodox Ecumenical Council, it had
 83   8”,23|           letter is in truth a most orthodox epistle, yet it was not
 84   8”,23|      shouted, “That is the faith of Orthodox Christians; thus do we all
 85   8”,23|            his beliefs are strictly Orthodox, can be judged and examined
 86   8”,23| Dodecabiblus). It runs as follows: “Orthodox Christians confess the two
 87   8”,23|           Monophysites, and not the Orthodox belief of the catholic Church,
 88   8”,23|          one of them has come to be Orthodox in belief, or in some other
 89   8”,23|          wants to make his children Orthodox. And again in ordinance
 90   8”,23|           cohabiting together is an Orthodox, while the other is a heretic,
 91   8”,23|          their children must become Orthodox. It is written, at any rate,
 92   8”,23|            of adulterers. As for an Orthodox person, on the other hand,
 93   8”,23|        clergymen of Antioch and the Orthodox Christians in Byzantium
 94   8”,23|             accepted as a saint and Orthodox Christian, and that it acknowledged
 95   8”,23|         same time confessed all the Orthodox dogmas contrary thereto (
 96   8”,23|              and because they allow Orthodox priests in Lechia who have
 97   8”,23|          what caused the race of us Orthodox Christians to be taken captive
 98   8”,23|                  180] Note that the Orthodox Church allows the consumption
 99   8”,23|   Chrysostom, wherever there is (an Orthodox edition of) the Gospel,
100   8”,23|             a Latin man to marry an Orthodox woman, or a Latin woman
101   8”,23|            a Latin woman to take an Orthodox man to husband. For what
102   8”,23|       communion can there be of the Orthodox party with the heretic?
103   8”,23|           be baptized in a strictly Orthodox manner. But if both parties
104   8”,23|           must all be brought up as Orthodox Christians, in accordance
105   8”,23|           salvation, which not only Orthodox emperors wore upon their
106   8”,23|          the Trisagion; and Book of Orthodox., ch. 3).~ ~  [220] This
107   8”,23|        understand that the death of Orthodox Christians is not a death,
108   8”,23|          abolished from our Eastern Orthodox Church? We cannot say with
109   8”,23|          community with that of the Orthodox, read ch. 9 of book VII
110   8”,23|          who has later seen how the Orthodox are baptized, wept and could
111   8”,23|           him to baptize him in the Orthodox baptism and saying that
112   8”,23|           had no community with the Orthodox. So, then, get it into your
113   8”,23|          Latins, when they join the Orthodox Eastern Church, ought of
114   8”,23|            be urged to do so by the Orthodox.~ ~  [248] Those too incur
115   8”,23|         this custom (concerning the Orthodox faith, Book IV, ch. 14).
116   8”,23|          the statues, the catholic (Orthodox) Church not only does not
117   8”,23|       imputing greater blame to the Orthodox; 3) because although the
118   8”,23|             a Papal affair, and not Orthodox; and that it is a modern
119   8”,23|             of the Decalogue in his Orthodox Catechism that one must
120   8”,23|          concerns the fact that the Orthodox Christians are wont to engrave
121   8”,23|      proceeds for the liberation of Orthodox captives. See also the Footnotes
122   8”,23|              But the divine laws of Orthodox emperors, supplementing
123   8”,23|         because they know him to be orthodox and sober (i.e., sensible