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We believe in one God, true, almighty, and infinite, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; the Father unbegotten; the Son begotten of the Father before the ages, and consubstantial with Him; and the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father, and consubstantial with the Father and the Son. These
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Christ guides. A shield of the Orthodox Faith, or the Apology composed by the Synod of Jerusalem under the Patriarch of Jerusalem Dositheus against the Calvinist heretics, who falsely say that the Eastern Church thinks heretically about God and Divine things as they
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books of the Orthodox Church, and form an official creed or declaration in the strictest sense, which every Orthodox Christian is bound to accept." Nevertheless, Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan
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Chapter v again tries to defend Lucaris by quoting various deeds and sayings of his and transcribes the whole decree of the synod of Constantinople of 1639, and then that of Yassy (
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They are furious about the Non-Jurors' denial of transubstantiation (after the Bethlehem synod) and they call the Non-Jurors' denial, criticism, even hesitation, blasphemous
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and asserting that Calvinism was in fact the faith of the Eastern Church. His E. Orthodox defenders claim that the book was a forgery. Cyril did not disavow it in writing.
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are quoted as well as the acts of former synods (Constantinople and Yassy). An elaborate attempt is then made to prove that Lucaris did not really write the famous
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states the decrees of the synod "have been accepted unreservedly by the whole Orthodox Church. They were at once approved by the other patriarchs, the
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Even though the Council was moved to Ferrara in 1438 and later to Florence, some bishops refused to move and remained in a parallel Council at Basel.
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The acts and decrees of the Synod of Jerusalem, sometimes called the Council of Bethlehem, holden under Dositheus, Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1672
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called the confession of the Synod of Jerusalem "the most vital statement of faith made in the Greek Church during the past thousand years."
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Parry, Ken; Melling, David J.; Brady, Dimitri; Griffith, Sidney H.; Healey, John F., eds. (2017-09-01) . "Lucaris, Cyril (1572-1638)".
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Parry, Ken; Melling, David J.; Brady, Dimitri; Griffith, Sidney H.; Healey, John F., eds. (2017-09-01) . "Jerusalem, Synod of (1672)".
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Chapter iii maintains that, even if Lucaris had written the confession attributed to him, it would not thereby become a
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three Persons in one essence we call the All-holy Trinity, — by all creation to be ever blessed, glorified, and adored.
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wrote: "This Synod is the most important in the modern history of the Eastern Church, and may be compared to the
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Protestant writers say that the strong hostility toward Protestantism of the synod was the product of the
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Chapter iv defends the Eastern Orthodox Church by quoting her formularies, and contains a list of
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is compared clause by clause with other statements made by him in sermons and in other works.
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Autocephaly and canonicity recognized by Constantinople and 3 other autocephalous Churches:
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whose "statements of faith have in part been received but in part set aside or corrected".
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appeared in Constantinople in 1631 or 1633. Lucaris was accused of adopting in this book
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of this synod in the form of a "Confession of Dositheus". It has eighteen decrees (
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summoned it on the occasion of consecrating said Church of the Nativity in 1672.
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of the Eastern Orthodox Church, but would remain merely the private opinion of a
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to no one, and tries to find further reasons for doubting his authorship.
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The synod was summoned in March 1672 and then took place the same year.
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In chapter ii, the synod declares that in any case Lucaris showed the
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The synod affirmed "the teaching role of the church and therefore of
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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Spiritual independence recognized by Georgian Orthodox Church:
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Autocephalous Churches who are officially part of the communion:
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describes the synod as one among many held in the period of the
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was condemned by the 1638 Synod of Constantinople and the 1642
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The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity
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of the synod are dated 20 March 1672; they bear the title:
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Robertson, James Nathaniel William Beauchamp, ed. (1899).
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of the synod are signed by Dositheus, his predecessor the
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Autocephaly recognized by some autocephalous Churches
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Christ Pantocrator (Deesis mosaic detail)
Christ Pantocrator
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Canon law
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