Eastern Orthodoxy


Eastern Orthodoxy

See also christianity; religion; theology.
Achephali1. any of various Middle Eastern Christian sects in the early church that lacked or rejected theological leaders.
2. a Flagellant. — Achephalist, n.charisticaryan official in the medieval Greek church who collected the money from a monastery or benefice.chrismationa sacrament corresponding to confirmation in the Western church in which a baptized person is anointed with chrism.eparchya diocese. See also greece and greeks.Euchologionthe principal service book of Eastern Orthodoxy. Also Euchologyeuchology1. the study of Eastern Orthodox ritual.
2. (cap.) Euchologion.exarch1. in the early church, the head of a major diocese or province.
2. a bishop inferior to a patriarch but superior to a metropolitan.
3. a deputy of a patriarch, either a priest or a bishop.
4. the head of an autonomous church. — exarchal, adj.hegumenthe head of a monastery.Hesychasmthe quietistic practices of a 14th-century ascetic sect of mystics drawn from the monks of Mt. Athos. Also called Palamitism. — hesychast, n. — hesychastic, adj.iconoclasticism1. the practice of opposing the veneration of icons.
2. the practice of destroying icons.
3. (cap.) the principles of the religious party in the 8th-century Eastern church that opposed the use of icons. — iconoclast, n. — iconoclastic, adj.idoloclastan iconoclast.metropolitanthe head of an ecclesiastic province.PalamitismHesychasm.parathesisa bishop’s prayer on behalf of catechumens. — parathetic, adj.patriarchthe head of any of the ancient sees or the see of another principal city or national church.Sophianisma theological system centering on the Holy Wisdom developed by the 20th-century Russian priest Sergei Bulgakov. Also called Sophiology. — Sophianist, n.synaxaristone who reads the synaxarion, or brief narrative of a saint’s life, in Eastern Orthodox liturgies.