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Orthodox (comparative more Orthodox , superlative most Orthodox )
( Christianity ) Orthodox Churches collectively.( Christianity , loosely ) Eastern Orthodox Church , sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East .( Judaism ) Orthodox Judaism .( Quakerism ) Orthodox Quakers , a group of Quakers (subdivided into the Wilburite , Gurneyite and Beaconite branches) who split with the Hicksite Quakers due to favoring adopting mainstream Protestant orthodoxy.
2006 The Evolution of a Quaker Community: Middletown Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1850 :[...which] Doherty hypothesized as the controlling variable for predicting who would become Orthodox or who would be Hicksite.
of the Orthodox Churches
Albanian: ortodoks (sq)
Arabic: أُرْثُوذُكْسِيّ ( ʔurṯūḏuksiyy )
Hijazi Arabic: أرثوذكسي ( ʔurṯūḏuksi, ʔurṯōḏuksi )
Armenian: ուղղափառ (hy) ( uġġapʻaṙ ) , հունադավան (hy) ( hunadavan ) ( Eastern Orthodox )
Azerbaijani:
Abjad: اورتودوقس ( ortodoqs ) , اورتادوس ( ortados )
Roman: pravoslav ortodoks
Belarusian: правасла́ўны ( pravasláŭny ) , (generic прававе́рны ( pravavjérny ) )
Bengali: অর্থোডক্স ( orthōḍoks )
Bulgarian: правосла́вен (bg) ( pravosláven ) , (generic правове́рен (bg) ( pravovéren ) )
Catalan: ortodox (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 東正教 ／ 东正教 (zh) ( dōngzhèngjiào ) ( Eastern Orthodox ) , 正教 (zh) ( zhèngjiào )
Crimean Tatar: ortodoks
Czech: pravoslavný (cs) , (generic pravověrný
Danish: ortodoks
Dutch: orthodox (nl) , ( Eastern Orthodox ) Oosters-orthodox
Esperanto: ortodoksa
Estonian: õigeusu
Faroese: ortodoksur
Finnish: ortodoksinen (fi)
French: orthodoxe (fr)
Galician: ortodoxo m
Georgian: მართლმადიდებელი ( martlmadidebeli )
German: orthodox (de)
Greek: ορθόδοξος (el) ( orthódoxos )
Hebrew: אוֹרְתּוֹדוֹקְּסִי ( ortodóksi )
Hindi: रूढ़िवादी (hi) ( rūṛhivādī )
Hungarian: ortodox (hu) , pravoszláv (hu)
Ido: ortodoxa (io)
Indonesian: ortodoks (id)
Italian: ortodosso (it)
Japanese: オーソドックス (ja) ( ōsodokkusu ) , 正教 (ja) ( せいきょう, seikyō )
Karaim: yavan
Kazakh: православиелік ( pravoslavielık )
Korean: 정교(正敎) (ko) ( jeonggyo )
Kyrgyz: православие ( pravoslaviye )
Lao: ອອກໂຕດົກ ( ʼǭk tō dok )
Lithuanian: stačiatikis
Macedonian: православен ( pravoslaven )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ortodoks
Nynorsk: ortodoks
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: православьнъ ( pravoslavĭnŭ )
Persian: ارتدکس (fa) ( ortodoks ) , یگان (fa) ( yagân ) ( obsolete )
Polish: prawosławny (pl) , (generic prawowierny (pl) or Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic)
Portuguese: ortodoxo (pt)
Romanian: ortodox (ro)
Russian: правосла́вный (ru) ( pravoslávnyj ) , (generic правове́рный (ru) ( pravovérnyj ) )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пра̏восла̄ван
Roman: prȁvoslāvan (sh)
Slovak: pravoslávny
Slovene: pravoslaven
Spanish: ortodoxo (es)
Tajik: православӣ ( pravoslavi )
Tatar: православие ( prawoslawiye )
Thai: ออร์ทอดอกซ์ ( ɔɔ-tɔɔ-dɔ̀k )
Turkish: Ortodoks (tr)
Turkmen: prawoslaw
Ukrainian: правосла́вний ( pravoslávnyj ) , (generic правові́рний (uk) ( pravovírnyj ) or relating to the Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic church)
Uzbek: pravoslaviye (uz)
Vietnamese: chánh giáo
Orthodox (plural Orthodox or Orthodoxes
( uncommon ) Orthodox Christian .
1891 The Statesman's Year-Book , MacMillan and Co., page 854 :The Greek Orthodox population of the 62 bishoprics in 1886 numbered 65,549,096. to which the Orthodoxes of the army and navy must be added.
1984 , David Gillard (ed.), British documents on foreign affairs: Reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print , Part I: From the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War , Series B: The Near and Middle East, 1856-1914 , page 31.
The Greek Catholic priesthood, who proselytize among the Orthodoxes , are specially favoured, and donations are given for Masses in the churches of the Capuchin and the Franciscan Friars.
( rare ) Orthodox Jew .Use of Orthodox as a noun is considerably less common than the use of Orthodox Jew and Orthodox Christian .
