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[[Image:Hagia_Sophia_BW.jpg|right|thumb|400px|[[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)|Hagia Haghia Sophia]] in Constantinople]]{{OrthodoxchristianityCreştinism ortodox}}'''EcclesiologyEclesiologia''' is the (sau '''ecleziologia''') este acea ramură a [[theology]teologie] of the Orthodox Christian faith concerning the Churchi care tratează despre Biserică.
==ChurchBiserica==The Church is the '''Body of Christ''', a theanthropic (divine-human) communion of Jesus Christ with his people. The sole head of the Church is Christ. The Church is an object of [[faith]], that is, Orthodox Christians ''believe in'' the Church. The traditional belief in the Church is attested to in the [[Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed]] as the '''[[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church]]'''. By this phrase is meant that the Church is undivided and not many (one), sanctified and set apart for the work of God (holy), whole and characterized by fullness and universality (catholic), and has at its essence the going out into all the world to preach the [[Gospel]] and [[baptism|baptize]] the nations (apostolic).
The Orthodox see the Church as a '''mystical organism''', not an organization of like thinking people. In the Church is the community where man is what he is created to be and can grow for eternity in divine life in communion with God through Christ in the Holy Spirit. The unity of the Church is not broken by time or space and is not limited merely to those alive upon the earth. The unity of the Church is the unity of the Blessed Trinity and of all of those who live with God: the holy angels, the righteous dead, and those who live upon the earth according to the commandments of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.