Leather-bound gift book "Orthodox Shrines of the World"

The book "Orthodox Saints of the World" will tell you about famous saints, traditions and Orthodox foundations. Orthodoxy (Greek for correct judgment, teaching, or glorification) is a trend in Christian culture that was fully formed during the first millennium after the Birth of Christ in the east of the Roman Empire.

The term "Orthodoxy" appeared as an antonym to heterodoxy, which denoted other, that is, non-ecclesiastical theological views of heretics or teachers, whose opinions were rejected by the church for some reason.

In the Christian context, "Orthodoxy" is found as early as the second century in the writings of the apologist Clement of Alexandria. "" The terminological meaning of the word is fixed only by Eusebius of Caesarea, but it is officially fixed for the first time in the acts of the Council of Chalcedon, and only since the time of Justinian has "Orthodoxy" been used to denote theological views quite widely. In doctrinal documents, the term was sometimes used as a synonym for Catholic. In this sense, it is also used by the Roman Catholic Church in liturgical texts, and for the ancient Eastern pre-Chalcedonian Orthodox churches it is even part of their generally accepted name.