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The first volume of this set serves as a general introduction to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Neale covers the geographical and national origins of the various Orthodox churches, the ecclesiology of the Orthodox Church, its liturgies and worship, the Church calendar, and various points of contention with the Western Church as a whole and the Roman Catholic Church in particular.

I HAVE taken in hand, with GOD’S assistance, to write the History of the Holy Eastern Church. The interest of the work can only be equalled by its difficulty; its importance by its peril. Incalculable benefit might arise from an impartial enquiry into the glories of its flourishing, and the misfortunes of its declining condition. Theories of the Church, now principally drawn from the Annals of the Western Branch, might be corrected or confirmed by an enquiry into the wonders which the
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