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Oriental Orthodox Churches

Branch of Eastern Christianity

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Oriental Orthodox Churches are a communion of Eastern Christian churches adhering to Miaphysite Christology. In 2020, it was estimated that the Oriental Orthodox Churches had 72 million members. The Oriental Orthodox Churches adhere to the Nicene Christian tradition. Oriental Orthodoxy is one of the oldest branches in Christianity.

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“Oriental Orthodox Churches” enters the record as branch of Eastern Christianity. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Oriental, Orthodox and Churches can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oriental Orthodox Churches” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.