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Oriental Orthodoxy. The British Orthodox Church ( BOC ), formerly the Orthodox Church of the British Isles, [1] is an independent Oriental Orthodox church. The British Orthodox Church has not been in communion with any of the Oriental Orthodox churches since a 2015 decision to return to an independent status.
Eastern Orthodox population by country Eastern Orthodox population by country. The number of members of the Eastern Orthodox Church in each country has been subject to debate. [by whom?] Each study performed that seeks to discover the number of adherents in a country may use different criteria, and be submitted to different populations.
A tomos ( Greek: τόμος, romanized : tomos, lit. 'section', 'part of', 'part which is cut') in the Eastern Orthodox Church is a decree of the head of a particular Eastern Orthodox church on certain matters (such as the level of dependence of an autonomous church from its mother church ). [1]
Eastern Orthodoxy is the major Christian denomination in Serbia, with 6,079,396 followers or 85% [1] [2] of the population, followed traditionally by the majority of Serbs, and also Romanians and Vlachs, Montenegrins, Macedonians and Bulgarians living in Serbia. The dominant Eastern Orthodox church in Serbia is the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions and churches which developed in the Middle East, Egypt, Asia Minor, the Far East, Balkans, Eastern Europe, Northeastern Africa and southern India over several centuries of religious antiquity. It is contrasted with Western Christianity, which developed in Western Europe.
The church was established in 1924, to accommodate Orthodox Christians of Polish descent in the eastern part of the country, when Poland regained its independence after the First World War . In total, it has approximately 500,000 adherents (2016). [1] In the Polish census of 2011, 156,000 citizens declared themselves as members.
Eastern Orthodox canon law is the formalised part of the divine law, [3] and ultimately aims to promote the "spiritual perfection" of church members. [4] The canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church is uncodified; its corpus has never been organised or harmonised into a formal code of ecclesiastical law.
