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The second largest Christian body, world wide, with 600 million members. One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, having an unbroken tradition of belief from Jesus Christ and the Apostles to today. Often referred to by any number of "ethnic" titles such as Greek, Russian, Serbian, Syrian, Romanian, Ukrainian. The word Orthodox literally means "true worship" or "true belief" This name was used to describe nearly all of Christianity in the first ten centuries of Church history. We are Orthodox because we ascribe to the Orthodox teachings established by the Apostles and their successors, which were defined 'in the Seven Ecumenical Councils, and by those early Christian writers known as the Church Fathers. Our basic statement of faith is the Nicene Creed, recited at every liturgy, and the Bible, which plays a prominent rote in our beliefs and piety. As the continuation of the Apostolic Church, the Orthodox Church is both liturgical and sacramental. Like the New Testament Church, we continue, "steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship, In the breaking of bread, and in prayers" (Acts 2:42). Our worship is shaped by both the Old and New Testaments, and is deliberately patterned upon what the Bible says is the worship of heaven.
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