Pilgrims line up to touch cross of St.Andrew in Moscow cathedral
Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral is again attracting Orthodox believers from all over Russia. Pilgrims are lining up to touch the cross on which St. Andrew the Apostle is said to have been crucified. The relic was brought from Greece to celebrate the 1025th anniversary of Russia's baptism. Moscow's authorities say they expect 400-thousand believers to turn out. A team of psychologists is being provided to help out. Prime Time's Tom Barton can explain.
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Russia: Early risers queue to see St. Andrew's cross in Moscow
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Russia: Early risers queue to see St. Andrew's cross in Moscow
Early on Saturday morning thousands of Muscovites gathered near Christ the Saviour Cathedral in the Russian capital, the tallest Orthodox Church in the world, to touch one of the most respected Christian relics.
St. Andrew's cross is usually kept in Patras, Greece, but was transported to Russia earlier in the week. The cross was first exhibited in St. Petersburg before it came to Moscow. In St. Petersburg around 200,000 people saw to the relic, and over 400,000 are expected to see it in Moscow.
About 50 volunteers have been working to organise the crowds and provide them with water or medical assistance if needed.
St. Andrew's cross is planned to be in Moscow until July 25, before it goes to the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
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Russia: Moscow's Orthodox Christians flock to see holy relics
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Russia: Moscow's Orthodox Christians flock to see holy relics
Orthodox Christians rushed to see some of the holiest relics within the
religion, the 'Gifts of the Magi, on display in Moscow's Cathedral of
Christ the Saviour, Tuesday. The relics, which will be on display to the
public from January 7 until 13, were brought from Greece to the cathedral
for the first time in their history.
They will then be moved from the Russian capital and displayed in the
Resurrection Novodevichy Monastery of St. Petersburg. Following St.
Petersburg, they will be moved to Minsk, being on display from January 18
until 24. On January 25 -30, the relics will be exhibited at the St. Sophia
Cathedral of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in Kiev, Ukraine.
The Biblical story says the three Magi, or three wise men, visited Jesus
after his birth, bearing him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
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00:02:50 2 Historic divisions in Christianity
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00:10:00 2.3 Great Schism
00:13:05 2.4 Western schisms and reformations
00:18:25 3 Modern ecumenical movement
00:21:38 4 Three approaches to Christian unity
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00:35:22 4.3 Anglicanism and Protestantism
00:35:32 4.3.1 Anglicanism
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The term ecumenism refers to efforts by Christians of different Church traditions to develop closer relationships and better understandings. The term is also often used to refer to efforts towards the visible and organic unity of different Christian denominations in some form.
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The terms ecumenism and ecumenical come from the Greek οἰκουμένη (oikoumene), which means the whole inhabited world, and was historically used with specific reference to the Roman Empire. The ecumenical vision comprises both the search for the visible unity of the Church (Ephesians 4:3) and the whole inhabited earth (Matthew 24:14) as the concern of all Christians.
In Christianity the qualification ecumenical is originally (and still) used in terms such as ecumenical council and Ecumenical Patriarch in the meaning of pertaining to the totality of the larger Church (such as the Catholic Church or the Orthodox Church) rather than being restricted to one of its constituent local churches or dioceses. Used in this original sense, the term carries no connotation of re-uniting the historically separated Christian denominations, but presumes a unity of local congregations in a worldwide communion.
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Apostolic succession is the method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is held to be derived from the apostles by a continuous succession, which has usually been associated with a claim that the succession is through a series of bishops. This series was seen originally as that of the bishops of a particular see founded by one or more of the apostles. According to historian Justo L. González, apostolic succession is generally understood today as meaning a series of bishops, regardless of see, each consecrated by other bishops, themselves consecrated similarly in a succession going back to the apostles. According to the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, apostolic succession means more than a mere transmission of powers. It is succession in a Church which witnesses to the apostolic faith, in communion with the other Churches, witnesses of the same apostolic faith. The see (cathedra) plays an important role in inserting the bishop into the heart of ecclesial apostolicity, but, once ordained, the bishop becomes in his Church the guarantor of apostolicity and becomes a successor of the apostles.Those who hold for the importance of apostolic succession via episcopal laying on of hands appeal to the New Testament, which, they say, implies a personal apostolic succession (from Paul to Timothy and Titus, for example). They appeal as well to other documents of the early Church, especially the Epistle of Clement. In this context, Clement explicitly states that the apostles appointed bishops as successors and directed that these bishops should in turn appoint their own successors; given this, such leaders of the Church were not to be removed without cause and not in this way. Further, proponents of the necessity of the personal apostolic succession of bishops within the Church point to the universal practice of the undivided early Church (up to AD 431), before being divided into the Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church. Christians of the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Old Catholic, Anglican, Moravian, and Scandinavian Lutheran traditions maintain that a bishop cannot have regular or valid orders unless he has been consecrated in this apostolic succession. Each of these groups does not necessarily consider consecration of the other groups as valid.However, some Protestants deny the need for this type of continuity, and the historical claims involved have been severely questioned by them; Eric G. Jay comments that the account given of the emergence of the episcopate in chapter III of the encyclical Lumen Gentium (1964) is very sketchy, and many ambiguities in the early history of the Christian ministry are passed over.
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Western Rite Orthodoxy or Western Orthodoxy or Orthodox Western Rite are terms used to describe congregations that are within Churches of Orthodox tradition but which use liturgies of Western or Latin origin rather than adopting Eastern liturgies such as the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. While there are some ancient examples of Western Rite communities in areas predominantly using the Byzantine Rite before the Great Schism was fully consolidated (the Monastery of Saint Mary of the Latins, often referred to as Amalfi, is a common example), the history of the movement is often considered to begin in the nineteenth century with the life and work of Julian Joseph Overbeck.
Western Rite parishes and monasteries exist within certain jurisdictions of the canonical Eastern Orthodox Church, predominantly within the Russian and Antiochian jurisdictions in North America, with the latter having created an Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate (AWRV).
In addition, the Western Rite is practiced within religious communities outside the main Eastern Orthodox Church. The Communion of Western Orthodox Churches and the Orthodox Church of France are entirely Western Rite. Furthermore, there is a small number of Western Rite communities among the Old Calendarists, such as the former Western Rite Exarchate of the Holy Synod of Milan and the Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of North and South America and the British Isles. In the past, there have also been Western Rite communities within Oriental Orthodoxy.
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The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 200–260 million members. As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, the Orthodox Church has played a prominent role in the history and culture of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, and the Near East. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops, called a Holy Synod. The church has no central doctrinal or governance authority analogous to the Catholic pope, but the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is recognised by all as primus inter pares (first among equals) of the bishops.
Eastern Orthodox theology is based on the Nicene Creed, and the church teaches that it is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic church established by Jesus Christ in his Great Commission, and that its bishops are the successors of Christ's apostles. It maintains that it practices the original Christian faith, passed down by sacred tradition. Its patriarchates, reminiscent of the pentarchy, and autocephalous and autonomous churches reflect a variety of hierarchical organisation. Of its innumerable Sacred Mysteries, it recognises seven major sacraments, of which the Eucharist is the principal one, celebrated liturgically in synaxis. The church teaches that through consecration invoked by a priest the sacrificial bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. The Virgin Mary is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Mother of God, honoured in devotions.
The Eastern Orthodox Church shared communion with the Roman Catholic Church until the East–West Schism in AD 1054, triggered by disputes over doctrine, especially the authority of the Pope. Before the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, Oriental Orthodox churches also shared in this communion, separating primarily over differences in Christology.
The majority of Eastern Orthodox Christians live in Eastern Europe, Greece, and the Caucasus, with smaller communities in the former Byzantine regions of the eastern Mediterranean, Africa, and to a decreasing degree also in the Middle East due to persecution. There are also many in other parts of the world, formed through diaspora, conversions, and missionary activity.