8 Facts About Eastern Orthodox Church

1. The Eastern Orthodox Church was allowed by the State to levy taxes on the peasants.

2. The Eastern Orthodox Church has defined what Scripture is; it interprets what its meaning is.

3. That is a title the Eastern Orthodox Church reserves for Christ, as supported in the scriptures themselves, most explicitly in the first chapter of the gospel of John.

4. The Eastern Orthodox Church teaches that everyone, being born in God's image, is called to theosis, fulfillment of the image in likeness to God.

5. The Eastern Orthodox Church considers Jesus Christ to be the head of the Church and the Church to be his body.

6. The Eastern Orthodox Church is a fellowship of "autocephalous" Churches, with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople being the only autocephalous head who holds the title primus inter pares, meaning "first among equals" in Latin.

7. The term Catholicity of the Eastern Orthodox Church is used in its original sense, as a designation for the Universality of the Church, centered around Christ.

8. The official name of the Eastern Orthodox Church is the "Orthodox Catholic Church".