Tradition Institution Christianity
Eastern Orthodox Church
Ecclesiae Orthodoxae la
Second-largest Christian church
- Dated from 1054 CE
- Also called Eastern Church, Orthodox Church, Orthodox Catholic Church
A path that branches,
meets and parts.
Schools and lineages
Branches · 1
Many paths. Shared histories.
What this means
Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.
Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Traditions whose own records say they belong to it
18 traditions name Eastern Orthodox Church as their own — an affiliation, so kept apart from the tree.
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Belongs to itRussian Orthodox Church
Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church -
Belongs to itEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
Eastern Orthodox religious denomination based in İstanbul, Türkiye -
Belongs to itEastern Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
Eastern Orthodox patriarchate currently headquartered in Damascus, Syria -
Belongs to itOrthodox Church of Ukraine
Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine (2018-) -
Belongs to itSerbian Orthodox Church
Autocephalous eastern orthodox church - Belongs to it
Church of Greece
Christian Eastern Orthodox denomination in Greece -
Belongs to itGeorgian Orthodox Church
National church -
Belongs to itRomanian Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church in Romania
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Belongs to it Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church based in Africa; one of the original Churches of the Pentarchy -
Belongs to it Bulgarian Orthodox Church Orthodox autocephalous church -
Belongs to it Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem Eastern Orthodox church -
Belongs to it Greek Orthodoxy Christian denominations of the Eastern Orthodox Church descended from a Greek tradition -
Belongs to it Albanian Orthodox Church Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church -
Belongs to it Polish Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox jurisdiction in Poland -
Belongs to it Church of Cyprus Christian Eastern Orthodox jurisdiction in Cyprus -
Belongs to it Orthodox Church in America Russian Orthodox church in North America, granted autocephaly in 1970 by the Patriarchate of Moscow -
Belongs to it Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia Christian Orthodox-oriented jurisdiction in the Czech Republic and Slovakia - Belongs to it Edinoverie Arrangement between certain Russian Old Believer communities and the official Russian Orthodox Church
Figures · 40
Begin with a figure
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 40 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Nikolai Berdyaev6 March 1874 CE (Old Style) – 24 March 1948 CE · Russian philosopher (1874–1948) -
Andrei Bely14 October 1880 CE (Old Style) – 8 January 1934 CE · Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934) -
Ivan I of Moscow1288 CE – 31 March 1340 CE · Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir -
Vladimir II Monomakh1053 CE – 19 May 1125 CE · Grand Prince of Kiev (1053-1125) -
Vasil Levski18 July 1837 CE – 18 February 1873 CE · Bulgarian revolutionary (1837–1873) -
Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia27 September 1657 CE – 14 July 1704 CE · Russian tsarevna (1657–1704) -
Vasily II of Moscow10 March 1415 CE – 27 March 1462 CE · Grand Prince of Moscow (1415-1462) -
Ivan II of Moscow30 March 1326 CE – 13 November 1359 CE · Grand Prince of Moscow (1326-1359) -
Vasily I of Moscow30 December 1371 CE – 27 February 1425 CE · Grand Prince of Moscow (1372-1425) -
Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Marie of Hesse)8 August 1824 CE – 3 June 1880 CE · Empress consort of Russia (1855-1880) -
Simeon of Moscow7 September 1316 CE – 27 April 1353 CE · Prince of Moscow and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1316-1353) -
Maria of Yugoslavia6 January 1900 CE – 22 June 1961 CE · Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (1922 - 1934)
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Figure Theophanes the Greek Byzantine-Russian artist (c.1340-c.1410) -
Figure Princess Elisabeth of Romania Romanian Royal; Queen Consort of Greece (1922 - 1924) -
Figure Eudoxia Lopukhina Russian Tsarina as the first wife of Peter I -
Figure Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia Russian grand duchess (1890–1958); granddaughter of Alexander II, daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia and Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark -
Figure Cyril of Turaw Belarusian and Ukrainian saint -
Figure Natalie of Serbia Serbian queen (1859–1941) -
Figure Maria Miloslavskaya Russian Tsarina -
Figure Paisius of Hilendar Bulgarian clergyman -
Figure Athanasius the Athonite Byzantine monk -
Figure Dimitry of Rostov Orthodox monk, archbishop and saint (1651-1709) -
Figure Joseph II of Constantinople Patriarch of Constantinople -
Figure Maria Skobtsova Russian saint (1891–1945) -
Figure Orest Berezovskyi Ukrainian bishop of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) -
Figure Macrina the Younger 4th-century Roman nun -
Figure Maria Dobroniega of Kiev Polish queen (1012-1087) -
Figure Eugene Botkin Court physician for Tsar Nicholas II - Figure Helena Kantakouzene Empress consort of John V Palaiologos
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Figure Alexander Men Russian theologian (1935–1990) -
Figure Meletius Smotrytsky Archbishop and writer from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -
Figure Diadochos of Photiki Byzantine bishop and saint - Figure George Mouzalon Byzantine official
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Figure Andrey Kuraev Russian Orthodox cleric - Figure Andronikos Palaiologos Megas domestikos of the Empire of Nicaea
- Figure Maria Nagaya Russian tsaritsa
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Figure Nikodim Russian archbishop -
Figure Zlata of Meglen Bulgarian saint -
Figure Konstantinos Palaiologos Byzantine monk and noble - Figure Theodora Raoulaina Byzantine noblewoman and nun
Texts · 1
Texts and teachings
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
Where a date is shown it is when the text was written — the source’s clock, never the time of what it tells.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Places · 25
Places and sites
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 25 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A place that names a tradition may be a temple or a whole province. Either way it is not a count of believers, and not evidence of practice in every period.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church in Jerusalem, containing the two holiest sites in Christianity -
Saint Catherine Monastery
Greek Orthodox monastery (the oldest) at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt -
Monastery of Saint John of Rila
Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria -
Basilica of Agios Dimitrios, Thessaloniki
Church in Thessaloniki, Greece -
monastic community of Mount Athos
Community of monks on the Mount Athos peninsula - autonomous part of the Greek state -
Hagia Sophia, Trabzon
Byzantine monument in Trabzon, Turkey -
Tikhvin Cemetery
Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia -
Saint Sophia Church
Church building in Sofia, Bulgaria
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Place Saint Nedelya Church Metropolitan Cathedral Church in Sofia
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Place Philotheou Monastery Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece -
Place Xeropotamou Monastery Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece -
Place Church of St. George in Topola Mausoleum of the Serbian and Yugoslav royal house of Karađorđević -
Place Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery Cemetery located in Essonne, in France -
Place Didube Pantheon Cemetery in Tbilisi, Georgia -
Place Zagreb Orthodox Cathedral Serbian Orthodox cathedral in Zagreb, Croatia -
Place Assumption Cathedral in Smolensk Principal church of the Smolensk bishopric for 800 years -
Place Seven Saints Church Church building in Sofia, Bulgaria -
Place St. Vladimir's Cathedral Russian Orthodox church in Sevastopol -
Place Andronikov Monastery Former monastery in Moscow, Russia -
Place Martvili Monastery Georgian Orthodox monastery in Martvili, Georgia -
Place Hagios Titos church Cathedral of Heraklion, Crete -
Place St. Alexander Nevsky's Church, Novocherkassk Temple in Novocherkassk, Russia
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Place Saint Sophia Cathedral, London Greek Orthodox cathedral in London -
Place Orthodox Cemetery in Warsaw Cemetery in Warsaw -
Place Euphrosyne Cemetery in Vilnius Cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania
Festivals and practices · 3
Festivals, holy days and practices
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 3 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A holy day’s day is the one its record states it is observed on. A festival recurs, so it has no date on the historical clock, and one named here is not evidence of when or where it was kept.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Events · 1
Events
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
Each is set out by its own date on the historical clock. An event that names a tradition — a council, a schism, a persecution — says who took part or was affected, not what every adherent held.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Institutions · 2
Offices
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 2 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A ruling house that names a tradition is a family’s recorded affiliation, not its subjects’ practice; an office is a line of holders, not a family.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Connections
How Eastern Orthodox Church connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 2
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Place 1
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
3 statements on this record
- 3 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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