GREEK Church

GREEK Church, is that part of the Christian church which

which is established in Greece; extending likewise to some other parts of Turkey. See GREECE.—It is thus called in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in contradistinction from the Latin or Romish church; as also the Eastern church, in distinction from the Western.

The Romanists call the Greek church the Greek schism; because the Greeks do not allow the authority of the pope, but depend wholly, as to matters of religion, on their own patriarchs. They have treated them as schismatics ever since the revolt, as they call it, of the patriarch Photius.

GREEK Monks and Nuns, of whatever order, consider St Basil as their founder and common father, and esteem it the highest crime to deviate in the least from his constitutions. There are several beautiful convents with churches, in which the monks perform divine service day and night. Some of the monks are cenobites, or live together, wear the same habit, eat at the same table, and perform the same exercises and employments.