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  • noun The Eastern Orthodox Church.

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  • noun state church of Greece; an autonomous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church

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Examples

  • For instance, if we mean to designate the rite, the term Greek Church is inaccurate, since there is really no Greek Rite properly so called, but only the Byzantine Rite.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Rumanians, Georgians, etc. The term Greek Church is, therefore, peculiarly inappropriate, though most commonly employed.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • The Orthodox Church has been commonly known as the Greek Church; and it has often been very hard to make people understand that the vast mass of the members of that so-called Greek Church are not Greek in any other sense.

    Race and Language 1909

  • The Orthodox Church has been commonly known as the Greek Church; and it has often been very hard to make people understand that the vast mass of the members of that so-called Greek

    Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists Leslie Stephen 1868

  • Church; and it has often been very hard to make people understand that the vast mass of the members of that so-called Greek Church are not

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • The principal indigenous Christian community is the Greek Church, which is the survival of the religious organization of the Byzantine

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • The Greek Church is the historical continuation of the Eastern offset of the same system.

    Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

  • There is a very serious example of this, to my mind, in what is called the Greek Church; the Greeks and Russians.

    Town and Country Sermons Charles Kingsley 1847

  • The Georgians are called Christians, but the Greek Church, which is the Russian religion, is a Christianity, laden with ceremonies and false doctrines.

    Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840

  • I found a parable the other day in a legend of the Greek Church which is worth repeating.

    Standards of Life and Service Thomas Henry Howard 1886

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