The Greek Orthodox Church

The Greek Orthodox Church
The Greek Orthodox Church is one of the three major branches
of Christianity, which 'stands in today's society as one of the
communities created by the apostles of Jesus in the region of the
eastern Mediterranean, and which spread by missionary activity
throughout Eastern Europe' (Meyendorff 5).The word orthodox comes
from Greek, meaning right-believing. currently the orthodox religion
has more than 174 million followers throughout the world.
The Greek Orthodox church is autocephalous, that is, governed
by its own head bishop. The head bishops of this autocephalo…