Eastern Church Definition

Eastern Church Sentence Examples

• In the West the only patriarch in the fully developed sense of the Eastern Church has been the bishop of Rome, who is patriarch as well as pope.

• In the early part of the 14th century the town was made the seat of a Christian archbishopric of the Eastern Church.

• The Orthodox Eastern Church in Hungary is subject to the authority of the metropolitan of Carlowitz and the archbishop of Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt); under the former are the bishops of Bacs, Buda, Temesvar, Versecz and Pakracz, and under the latter the bishops of Arad and Karansebes.

• The supreme governing body in the Russian branch of the Orthodox Eastern Church is known as the Holy Synod.

• With the poor exceptions of one or two names like those of Theodore of Mopsuestia and John of Damascus, the Eastern Church produced no preachers of distinction.