GREEK CHURCH

The correct name is the Holy Oriental Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church, the term Greek simply indicating its early history. It comprises that group of Chris_ tian churches in the East, which, while not owing allegiance to Rome, has preserved an ecclesiastical and sacerdotal ‘system much resembling hers, and has ‘continued with but little change from primitive times. The Gr. Church congists of four ancient patriarchates— Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople, and several national, churches in communion with these, but independent in Most ‘Church, the Ru ian Church, the hodox Church of the late Austrian the National Churches of Oburches of Cyprus and Mount Sinai. _ In doctrine, the Eastern Church agrees on the whole with the Roman. The only point on which there is e ential difference is the manner of the proce ion of the Holy Ghost. The Oriental Church Maintains that He proceeds from the Father alone, and its dislike to the Latin addition of the phrase Filioque to the Nicene Oreed has been the chief obstacle to reunion, although the questions of primacy and infallibility of the Pope also present difficulties.