Orthodox Church

English

Noun

Orthodox Church (countable and uncountable, plural Orthodox Churches)

1. The Eastern Orthodox Church.
2. The Eastern body of Christendom.
3. That part of Christendom apart from the Eastern Catholic Churches.
4. Any Church that self-designates as Orthodox.

Translations

the Eastern body of Christendom

• Albanian: kisha ortodokse f
• Arabic: الْكَنِيسَة الأُرْثُوذُكْسِيَّة f (al-kanīsa l-ʔurṯūḏuksiyya)
• Armenian: ուղղափառ եկեղեցի (uġġapʻaṙ ekeġecʻi)
• Azerbaijani: pravoslav kilsəsi
• Basque: Eliza ortodoxoa
• Belarusian: правасла́ўная царква́ f (pravasláŭnaja carkvá)
• Breton: Iliz Ortodoks f
• Bulgarian: правосла́вна църква́ f (pravoslávna cǎrkvá)
• Catalan: Església Ortodoxa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正教會／正教会 (zhèngjiàohuì)

• Czech: pravoslavná církev f
• Danish: Den ortodokse kirke c
• Dutch: Orthodoxe Kerk f
• Esperanto: Ortodoxa Eklesio
• Estonian: õigeusu kirik
• Finnish: ortodoksinen kirkko
• French: Église orthodoxe (fr) f
• Galician: Igrexa Ortodoxa f
• Georgian: მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია (martlmadidebeli eḳlesia)
• German: orthodoxe Kirche f, Orthodoxe Kirche f
• Greek: Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία (el) f (Orthódoxi Ekklisía)
• Hebrew: נַצְרוּת אוֹרְתּוֹדוֹקְסִית (he) f (natsrút ortodoksít)
• Hungarian: ortodox egyház, pravoszláv egyház
• Icelandic: Rétttrúnaðarkirkjan f
• Indonesian: Gereja Ortodoks
• Irish: Eaglais Cheartchreidmheach f
• Italian: Chiesa ortodossa f
• Japanese: 正教会 (ja) (せいきょうかい, seikyōkai)
• Kazakh: православие шіркеуі (pravoslavie şırkeuı)
• Korean: 정교회(正敎會) (jeonggyohoe)
• Kyrgyz: ортодокс чиркөөсү (ortodoks cirköösü)
• Latin: Ecclēsia Orthodoxa f
• Latvian: pareizticīgā baznīca f
• Lithuanian: stačiatikių bažnyčia f
• Macedonian: православна црква f (pravoslavna crkva)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Den ortodokse kirke m or f, Den ortodokse kirken m, Den ortodokse kirka f

  Nynorsk: Den ortodokse kyrkja f

• Ottoman Turkish: شرق كلیساسی (şarq kilisesi)
• Persian: کلیسای ارتدکس (kelisâ-ye ortodoks)
• Polish: cerkiew prawosławna f
• Portuguese: Igreja Ortodoxa f
• Romanian: biserica ortodoxă f
• Russian: правосла́вная це́рковь f (pravoslávnaja cérkovʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: православна црква f

  Roman: pravoslavna crkva f

• Slovak: pravoslávna cirkev f
• Slovene: pravoslavna cerkev f
• Spanish: Iglesia ortodoxa f
• Swedish: Ortodoxa kyrka c
• Turkish: Ortodoks Kilisesi
• Ukrainian: правосла́вна це́рква f (pravoslávna cérkva)
• Welsh: Eglwys Uniongred f

Further reading

• “Orthodox Church”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Orthodox Church”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Orthodox Church”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• “Orthodox Church”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Orthodox Church”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Orthodox Church” (US) / “Orthodox Church” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “Orthodox Church”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.