Under Seraphim, the Greek Church's relations with the Orthodox See in Istanbul hit a low because of a territorial dispute and Bartholomew's attempts to mend the nearly 1, 000-year schism with the the Vatican.
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Alongside their various fiefs and principalities, the Crusaders installed Roman Catholic prelates in the local Greek Orthodox sees; the pre-existing patterns of ecclesiastical organization were largely maintained, but the new clergy was soon riven by internal quarrels.
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Orthodox see the Bible as a collection of inspired texts that sprang out of this tradition, not the other way around; and the choices made in forming the New Testament as having come from comparison with already firmly established faith.
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The strictly Orthodox see Reform and Conservative conversions as " quickies, " or as some put it, " snip and dunk " conversions that ask little more than circumcision from the men and immersion in a ritual bath from the women.
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"They're going to do all they can to kill Reform practices here because while the Orthodox see secular Jews as lost sheep who need to be brought back into the fold, they see Reform Jews as Satan in the flesh ."
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The trip, John Paul's second to Hungary and the 73rd foreign tour of his papacy, was initially expected to include talks with Patriarch Alexy II as a way of overcoming tensions over what the Orthodox see as overzealous missionary work by Catholics in post-Commumnist Russia.
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The major limitation in the use of micropropagation for many plants is the cost of production; for many plants the use of seeds, which are normally disease free and produced in good numbers, readily produce plants ( see orthodox seed ) in good numbers at a lower cost.
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It is likely that it was at this time, with the construction of the castle of Castel Rosso ( some 4 km from the modern town, at the modern village of conquest of Euboea by the Ottoman Empire in 1470, the local Orthodox see was reactivated as part of the Metropolis of Euripos.
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More importantly, the Orthodox see the Filioque as just the tip of the iceberg and really just a symptom of a much more deeply rooted problem of theology, one so deeply rooted that they consider it to be heretical and even, by some characterizations, an inability to " see God " and know God.
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That the imperial court and patriarchate regarded the 10th-century Rus'as Christians is evident from the fact that the bishopric of Rus'was enumerated in the lists of Orthodox sees, compiled during the reigns of Leo the Wise and Constantine VII . There is also an argumentum ex silentio : no Greek source recorded the second baptism of the Rus in the 990s.
