Eastern Christianity Eastern Orthodoxy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095778 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eastern_Orthodox_Church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eastern_Orthodoxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church https://homosaurus.org/terms/easternOrthodoxChurches https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35032 BX200-BX750 Eastern Orthodox Church Eastern orthodox church Orthodox Catholic Church Orthodox Eastern Church The second-largest Christian church, with approximately 260 million baptised members. It operates as a communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops in local synods. Roughly half of Eastern Orthodox Christians live in Russia. The church has no central doctrinal or governmental authority analogous to the Bishop of Rome, but the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is recognised by all as primus inter pares ("first among equals") of the bishops.