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Orthodox Church of Constantinople
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Orthodox Church of Constantinople, honorary primacy of the Eastern Orthodox autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) churches; it is also known as the “ecumenical patriarchate” or “Roman” patriarchate (Turkish Rum patriarkhanesi).
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Holy Sepulchre
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Holy Sepulchre, the tomb in which Jesus was buried and the name of the church built on the traditional site of his Crucifixion and burial. According to the Bible, the tomb was close to the place of Crucifixion (John 19:41- 42), and so the church was planned to enclose the site of both cross and tomb.
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Holy Spirit
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Holy Spirit, also called HOLY GHOST (“ghost” being derived from old Germanic words meaning “spirit”), in Christian belief, the third person of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit is viewed as the main agent of man’s restoration to his original natural state through communion in Christ’s body and, thus, as the principle of life in the Christian community.
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Holy order
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Holy orders, grades in the ordained ministry of some of the Christian churches, comprising at various times the major orders of bishop, priest, deacon, and subdeacon and the minor orders of porter (doorkeeper), lector, exorcist, and acolyte.
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Hilarion
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Hilarion, Saint (b. c. AD 291, Tabatha, near modern Gaza, Israeli-occupied Egypt—d. 371, Cyprus), monk and mystic who founded Christian monasticism in Palestine modelled after the Egyptian tradition.Most knowledge about Hilarion derives from a semi-legendary and rhetorically embellished account of his life written c. 391 by the Latin biblical scholar Jerome, using material by Epiphanius of Salamis (Cyprus), an influential 4th-century theologian-chronicler, Jerome greatly exaggerated Hilarion’s importance in order to glorify Palestinian monasticism, to which he himself belonged. Despite a historical nucleus, therefore, it is often difficult to determine the facts.
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Excommunication
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excommunication, defin in canon law as “a censure by which someone is excluded from the communion of the faithful” but not from membership in the church as such. Some form of exclusion belongs to the administration of all Christian churches and denon,inations, indeed of all religious communities.
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