Home›Christianity›Liturgical Language›Church SlavonicLanguageChurch SlavonicSacred & Content LanguagesScriptural and Theological TraditionVerifiedChurch Slavonic is a Slavic language of the South Slavic sub-branch, kept for worship by Eastern Christian churches rather than spoken at home. It descends from Old Church Slavonic, the ninth and tenth century language of the first Slavic translations of scripture and liturgy from Koine Greek, and it branched into regional varieties called recensions, among them Serbian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Croatian and Czech. In its conservative form, standardised in the eighteenth century, it is used in Eastern Orthodox services in Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and other countries, and also by the Old Believers and by some Greek Catholic churches. In this atlas the general entry stands for denominations that name Church Slavonic without a recension; the Russian recension and Old Church Slavonic have their own entries.FactsChurch SlavonicConnectionsIn the Other AtlasesSourcesTake a Related QuizComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsLiturgical role (class)Well-attestedLiturgical language 1Church SlavonicFilter Results7 entriesSizeAll25,000,000 to 1,750,000,000 (2)5,255,000 to 22,785,195 (1)PolityAllDecentralised Polity (1)Episcopal Polity (2)Patriarchal-Synodal Polity (5)Origin EraAll30 (1)864 (1)988 (2)1219 (1)1596 (1)1652 (1)Parent DenominationAllRoman Catholicism (1)Parent ReligionAllChristianity (7)Establishment StatusAllDeclared Not Established (1)No Establishment (1)Privileged Never Established (2)Varies by Province (1)Marriage PositionAllMarriage is held to be a lifelong, monogamous, indissoluble union; remarriage after divorce is not sanctioned while a spouse lives (1)Marriage is held to be monogamous, with remarriage after divorce sanctioned under specified conditions (2)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (7)Sexuality PositionAllSame-sex orientation or practice is held to bar full membership or participation (1)Same-sex sexual relationships are held contrary to teaching; LGBT individuals are welcomed as members but not ordained, and same-sex unions are not blessed (2)Church FamilyAllCatholic Churches (1)Eastern Orthodox Churches (5)Ordination PracticeAllCelibacy required of the ordained (1)Married clergy permitted (7)Restricted to men (5)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 7Bulgarian Orthodox ChurchChurch SlavonicEastern OrthodoxyChurch SlavonicOld BelieversChurch SlavonicRussian Orthodox ChurchChurch SlavonicSerbian Orthodox ChurchChurch SlavonicUkrainian Greek Catholic ChurchChurch SlavonicUkrainian Orthodox ChurchChurch SlavonicConnectionsAttested in RegionEastern Europe, Regions Well-attested Used today by Eastern Orthodox churches from Russia and Ukraine to Serbia and Bulgaria.Source Church Slavonic (Wikipedia)Liturgical Language OfBulgarian Orthodox Church, Denominations Well-attested Eastern Orthodoxy, Denominations Well-attested Old Believers, Denominations Well-attested Russian Orthodox Church, Denominations Well-attested Serbian Orthodox Church, Denominations Well-attested Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Denominations Well-attested Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Denominations Well-attested Read in RegionEastern Europe, Regions Well-attested Read aloud in worship across the Slavic Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe.Source Church Slavonic (Wikipedia)Uses This ScriptCyrillic, Scripts & Magical Alphabets Well-attested Church Slavonic traditions appear in Early Cyrillic.Source Church Slavonic (Wikipedia)Glagolitic, Scripts & Magical Alphabets Well-attested Church Slavonic traditions also appear in Glagolitic.Source Church Slavonic (Wikipedia)In the Other AtlasesIn BranchBalto-SlavicAlso in Language Atlas: the branch this subject belongs to.Indo-EuropeanAlso in Language Atlas: the branch this subject belongs to.SlavicAlso in Language Atlas: the branch this subject belongs to.South SlavicAlso in Language Atlas: the branch this subject belongs to.Sources1. Church Slavonic (Wikipedia)Wikimedia FoundationChurch Slavonic, lead paragraphIt is used, both historically and in the modern era, as a liturgical language by various Eastern Christian denominations.Church Slavonic, lead paragraph, liturgical roleIt is used, both historically and in the modern era, as a liturgical language by various Eastern Christian denominations.Uses This Script: Cyrillic, Church Slavonic, scriptsAttestation of Church Slavonic traditions appear in Early Cyrillic and Glagolitic scripts.Uses This Script: Glagolitic, Church Slavonic, scriptsAttestation of Church Slavonic traditions appear in Early Cyrillic and Glagolitic scripts.Attested in Region: Eastern Europe, Church Slavonic, lead paragraph 2In its conservative form, that was standardized in the 18th century, it is used today by Eastern Orthodox churches in Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia and Slovakia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.Read in Region: Eastern Europe, Church Slavonic, lead paragraph 2In its conservative form, that was standardized in the 18th century, it is used today by Eastern Orthodox churches in Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia and Slovakia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.View the SourceTake a Related QuizLanguages: BeginnerCovers this kind of entry.Comments (0)No comments yet. 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