Eastern Christianity

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Eastern Christianity is one of two major classifications used to categorize church bodies with shared orientation within common historical root. Eastern Christianity is a category contrasted with Western Christianity, which comprises those Christian traditions and churches that originally were based to the west along the Mediterranean region. Eastern Christianity comprises church families within Christian traditions that originally developed during classical and late antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean region and their later extensions. The term does not refer to any single communion or particular church body. The term does not imply any unity of different communion of churches within its classification nor plurality of churches within this classification implies any disunity within any singular communion. Major Eastern Christian communions include the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, along with churches descended from the historic Church of the East (Assyrian...

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