Encyclicals / Canons / Councils

Below is a list of Church documents and writings which are helpful in understanding the

Orthodox Church of Christ as it is being guided by the Holy Spirit to this very day:

• First Apostolic Council (Acts of the Holy Apostles, chapter 15)
• Apostolic Teaching - The Didiche
• On Baptism - 49th and 50th Apostolic Canons
• 7 Ecumenical Councils
• Council of Trullo in Constantinople (Quinisextine - Fifth-and-Sixth Council) - 692
• Council of Constantinople ("Triumph of Orthodoxy") - 842-843
• Council of Constantinople (Against Filioque) 867
• Council of Constantinople (Eighth Ecumenical) - 879-880
• Council of Blachernae - 1285
• Council of Haghia Sophia (Ninth Ecumenical) - 1341
• Councils of Constantinople - 16th Century
• Council of Moscow - 1666-1667
• Council of Jerusalem - 1672
• Council of Constantinople - 1755-1756
• Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs - 1848
• Council of Constantinople - 1872
• Council of Constantinople - 1902-1904
• Pastoral Encyclical of 1935
• Encyclical of 1957
• GOC Synod's Epistle to ROCOR - 1976
• Encyclical Against "Old Calendar Ecumenism" - 1983
• Declaration Against Ecumenism - 1985
• Pan Orthodox Confession of Faith - 2008

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