Church of Cyprus

This source names Church of Cyprus directly: "between President Makarios and the Church of Cyprus in which the state covers part of clerics' wages in exchange for church owned land, plus roughly 2.5 million euros a year in separate VAT refunds..."

This source names Church of Cyprus directly: "which extended to the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus, the Muslim Vakf, and the Armenian Orthodox, Maronite and Latin-rite communities the exclusive right to regulate their own internal affairs and..."

The Council of Ephesus affirmed the island church's independence of Antioch.

Autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus affirmed its independence in 431.

Rome's honour as a see is not in question here. What is rejected is universal jurisdiction over the whole church and the personal infallibility defined in 1870. Primacy among the Orthodox churches is held to be a primacy of honour, not of power.

The creed is recited here in its original form, that the Spirit proceeds from the Father. The Latin addition of and the Son is rejected both as an unauthorised alteration of a conciliar text and as bad theology, and it remains the principal doctrinal difference with Rome.

This church prays for the dead and holds that the prayers help them, but it does not teach a distinct place of satisfactory punishment or the calculus of temporal penalty that the Western doctrine carries.

What is rejected is the Augustinian transmission of guilt, not the teaching that humanity begins damaged. This church speaks of ancestral sin: what passes from Adam is mortality and a nature inclined to sin, not personal culpability for another's act.

The gifts are held to be truly the body and blood of Christ. The change is confessed without committing the church to the scholastic account of substance and accident that the Latin term transubstantiation carries.

Sung in Greek in a church autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus, which has kept the psaltic tradition through every change of ruler on the island.

The Church of Cyprus attended and signed its documents.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. The Third Hour is prayed daily from the Horologion and carries the commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. The anaphoras of St John Chrysostom and St Basil the Great are used according to a fixed calendar, the longer Basil on ten days of the year.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. The epiclesis follows the institution narrative and is held to be the moment of consecration, which is the central Eastern difference from Western eucharistic theology.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. The Lamb is broken into four particles marked IC XC NI KA, one placed in the chalice, one for the clergy and two for the communion of the people.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. The Orthodox call it the Divine Liturgy, most often that of John Chrysostom, sung throughout behind an icon screen, with leavened bread and communion given in both kinds from a spoon after preparation by fasting and confession.

The liturgical books name the Theotokos ever-virgin at every service, which is where the doctrine is carried here rather than in a dogmatic definition of its own.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. The institution narrative is recited within the anaphora, but the consecration is not located in it.

Salvation is framed as participation in the divine life rather than as a debt discharged. The Palamite distinction between God's unknowable essence and his uncreated energies is what lets union with God be affirmed without the creature being absorbed into the divine essence.

Affirmed at Ephesus in 431 and repeated in the Chalcedonian Definition. The title is a statement about Christ before it is a statement about Mary: she is God-bearer because the one she bore is God.

Confessed in the words of the creed of Nicaea and Constantinople as this church recites it, without the later Western addition to the article on the Spirit.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. Orthodoxy defended images at the seventh council and keeps them central: an icon is kissed on entering, censed, carried in procession, laid on a stand for the feast of the day, and kept in a corner of the home. It is written to a received pattern rather than invented, and generally unsigned.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. The Orthodox honour Mary as Theotokos, God-bearer, and glorify saints by decision of a synod rather than through a Roman-style process; they reject the Immaculate Conception as answering a doctrine of original sin they do not hold, while keeping the Dormition.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431.

Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. The Byzantine churches reserve the Lamb through the year for it.

The Byzantine rite is celebrated in Greek here, in the received liturgical form of the language rather than in the modern spoken one.