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First published in 1672 by Patriarch Dositheus II of Jerusalem as a summation of the decisions of that year’s Synod of Jerusalem, this confession of faith provides not only a summary of Orthodox Christian doctrine in the seventeenth century, but also a unique interaction between Orthodox theology and the Calvinists of the Protestant Reformation, as well as the Roman Catholic church of that same...

heresy and join the Catholic Church are received by the Church; although they received their valid Baptism with weakness of faith.* Wherefore, when they afterwards become possessed of the perfect faith, they are not again baptised. We believe Holy Baptism, which was instituted by the Lord, and is conferred in the name of the Holy Trinity, to be of the highest necessity. For without it none is able to be saved, as the Lord saith, ‘Whosoever is not born of water and of the Spirit, shall
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