Sentence examples for orthodox rite from inspiring English sources

It was a Greek Orthodox rite, not a Mass.

He was also baptized in an Orthodox rite.

The religions of the Bashkir are Islām and the Eastern Orthodox rite.

They have retained their use of the Albanian language, the Greek Orthodox rite in their churches, and, on occasion, their colourful national costumes.

The dominant religion in the city is the hybrid Greek Catholic faith, where worshippers follow the Orthodox rite but acknowledge the authority of the Pope.

The greatest classical Jewish theologian, Moses Maimonides, denounced them as minim, or heretics, and banned them from public prayer; others termed their children bastards, since their parents married in weddings which diverged from the Orthodox rite.

The choreography had to be improvised: Russians had not buried a leader with Orthodox rites since 1894, and never before a democratically elected one.

Tensions between the two churches are high in Ukraine, where there are disputes over church property between Orthodox leaders and Eastern-rite Catholics, who follow Orthodox rites but are loyal to Rome.

Those Orthodox rites which omit the unction make a triple sign of the cross on the head or on the forehead to remind the candidate that he must bear the image of Christ.

Two years later, he drove to a desolate area of New Mexico, made a makeshift Buddhist shrine, and shot himself in the heart, a fact not revealed until after he was buried with full Orthodox rites, a privilege that is denied in the case of suicide.

Elected in 1967 as the 20th patriarch of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem, the formal title of the leader of the Greek Catholics, Maximus V had 600,000 followers, mainly in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon, who accepted the authority of the pope in Rome but worshiped in Arabic according to Orthodox rites.