Orthodox Eastern Church
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...because the original language was Greek, but the liturgy has been...First the Russians, then the Greeks and the Balkan countries set...a split (1927) in Russian Orthodoxy that continued into the 21st...Church of Greece dates from the Greek War of Independence. It is...been separate hierarchies of Greeks, Russians, and others, sometimes...