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English
Noun
Orthodox Church (countable and uncountable, plural Orthodox Churches)
- The Eastern Orthodox Church.
- The Eastern body of Christendom.
- That part of Christendom apart from the Eastern Catholic Churches.
- Any Church that self-designates as Orthodox.
Translations
the Eastern body of Christendom
Further reading
- “Orthodox Church”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Orthodox Church”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Orthodox Church”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- “Orthodox Church”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “Orthodox Church”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Orthodox Church” (US) / “Orthodox Church” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “Orthodox Church”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.