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Christian feast day: Mark of Ephesus (Eastern Orthodox Church)

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Mark of Ephesus (Eastern Orthodox Church) from January 19, null

Mark of Ephesus

Archbishop of Ephesus and Eastern Orthodox saint

Mark of Ephesus was a hesychast theologian of the late Palaiologan period of the Byzantine Empire who became famous for his rejection of the Council of Ferrara–Florence (1438–1439). As a monk in Constantinople, Mark was a prolific hymnographer and a follower of Gregory Palamas'…
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Eastern Orthodox Church

Second-largest Christian church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is one of the three major doctrinal and jurisdictional groups of Christianity, with approximately 230 million baptised members. It…
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