Orthodox Christianity/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Orthodox Christianity.

Descriptive term traditionally used to describe Christian communions and denominations with the word "Orthodox" in their English-language names. These are churches which maintained Eastern and Occidental Christian tradition following the Great Schisms which separated the Church universal into different communions.