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Greek Church

NOUN
  1. state church of Greece; an autonomous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church

How To Use Greek Church In A Sentence

  • During the whole of Lent the Greek church still celebrates, towards evening, only the mass of the presanctified, except on Saturdays and Sundays, and on the feast of the Annunciation, when the ordinary mass is offered up. The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
  • The office is found not only in all Greek Churches subject to Constantinople, but also in the Russian, Bulgarian, and other so-called autocephalous The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • But, unenviably, they had also become the first Greek church to fizzle out and stop giving.
  • Romanus, St. Romanos the Melodist the great ecclesiastical lyrist of the Greek Church, composed for it a hymn The Birth of the Virgin
  • Acheron, from which were heard to sound, by sullen and intermitted fits, the penitential psalms which the Greek Church has appointed to be sung at executions. Count Robert of Paris
  • At the papal curia he was asked to expound the doctrine of the Latin church at a meeting with representatives of the Greek church.
  • The fylfot is frequently found in the Greek Church on the vestments of the clergy. The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness
  • What practice does the Greek church object to?
  • In the Greek Church the law of abstinence is designated by the term xerophagy in contradistinction to monophagy, signifying the law of fasting. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • And which [6365] Brochard, the monk, in his description of the Holy Land, after he had censured the Greek church, and showed their errors, concluded at last, Faxit Deus ne Latinis multa irrepserint stultifies, I say God grant there be no fopperies in our church. Anatomy of Melancholy
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