Home›Liturgical Rituals›Origin Period Start Year›4th centuryBrowse By4th centuryThis page groups rituals by the year their recorded history begins. Wikipedia notes that "the word 'ritual' is first recorded in English in 1570, and came into use in the 1600s to mean 'the prescribed order of performing religious services'." Browsing by start year lets a visitor see how far back a given ritual's documented history actually reaches.Facts4th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRituals 14th centuryFilter Results2 entriesFrequencyAllDaily (1)Seasonal, at set points in the year (1)ObligationAllObligatory (1)Scholarly StandingAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (2)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (1)PractitionerAllClergy or ordained officiants (2)TraditionAllChurch of Cyprus (2)Church of Greece (2)Eastern Orthodoxy (2)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (2)Georgian Orthodox Church (2)Greek Orthodox Church (2)Old Believers (1)Romanian Orthodox Church (2)Russian Orthodox Church (2)Serbian Orthodox Church (2)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (2)Originates In LanguageAllKoine Greek (2)Old Church Slavonic (1)Kind of ritualAllByzantine Liturgies (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 2Byzantine Rite4th centuryDivine Liturgy of St Basil4th centurySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 1Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.