How To Use Orthodox church In A Sentence
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In the midday sun, the allure of a golden-globed Orthodox church was matched only by the three blue spires atop the straight-backed cathedral.
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After 1054, the Church was divided into the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Don't Orthodox churches have onion domes?
Times, Sunday Times
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Gray releases jobs/economic development plan -- Fenty and Gray square off in Ward 4 forum and straw poll, 7 p.m. at St. George's Antiochan Orthodox Church
DeMorning DeBonis: Aug. 4, 2010
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In fact, they were converted by the Coptic Orthodox Church, home of Nestorius' most determined opponent, St. Cyril of Alexandria.
Summorum Pontificum and the Orthodox
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And both churchmen agreed that proposed reforms are likely to stop short of demands by some Orthodox churches for a complete restructuring of the World Council of Churches.
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Don't Orthodox churches have onion domes?
Times, Sunday Times
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The Orthodox Church was never subject to a single externally authoritarian organization and it unshakenly was held together by the strength of internal tradition and not by any external authority.
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But I have encountered more than one person, both in my past as a student and in my recent career as a blogger, who still manages to believe that, while they are formally Protestant, in the sense of belonging to a Protestant church, they are materially more catholic than either the Catholic or the Orthodox churches.
Protestants who think they're Catholic
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Soon after his death he was declared a Saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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The iconostasis of the Orthodox church effects what in Gothic architecture is accomplished by the Rood Screen, the separation of the nave from the sanctuary.
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The opposite is true of Christianity: The Eastern Orthodox Church gave itself the term orthodox, meaning "correct belief.
Archive 2007-06-01
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The Orthodox Church is headed by a patriarch, presiding over the Holy Synod, with a hierarchy of regional archbishops, bishops, and priests.
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Last year the court issued a ‘final and unappealable decision’ that in Bulgaria two religious communities existed which held the title ‘Bulgarian Orthodox Church.’
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Many Orthodox churches have above the altar, in the apse, the iconographic picture of the community of the apostles with Christ as the heavenly liturgist in the robes of an earthly priest.
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Of course Orthodox usually insist that their traditional, internal consensus, as expressed in both liturgy and theology, makes their belief that the Orthodox Church is the Church just as "irreformable" for Orthodoxy as the corresponding belief is for Catholicism.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Sometimes it has seemed difficult to separate the primordial pagan origins of holy well veneration in specific localities from the orthodox church-approved beliefs and devotional practices.
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The Russian Orthodox Church has also a school of "Sophiology" to explore the theology of Sophia without contradicting the Russian Orthodox theology.
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Although no one can say for certain whether the gnarled old tree is the very one cited in the New Testament -- the local Greek Orthodox church venerates the remnant of another ancient tree, for example -- experts who have examined it say it may very well date back to the time of Jesus.
Zacchaeus' Tree Now A Top Tourist Destination
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Many areas in which the new buildings are going up already have Orthodox churches with a shortage of parishioners.
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Nativity of the Holy Theotokos, founded in August 2008, is named for the birthday of the Virgin Mary, who is called Theotokos in the Orthodox Church.
News for WNCT
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Among his other devices to rally popular opinion was a relief of pressure on the Orthodox Church.
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And that started when his mother baptized him as a Christian in the Orthodox church.
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Everywhere people carry the prayer beads of the Greek Orthodox Church.
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Elsewhere sardonic mockery gave way to the radiant Mariinsky chorus and the harmonies of the Orthodox church.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the basis of this principle, an approach to the Anglican and the Orthodox churches has been sought.
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The Greek Orthodox Church forbids funeral services for suicides unless the deceased was mentally ill.
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The Communist party encouraged the renewal of Macedonian cultural life, promoting the Macedonian language and restoring the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
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The bell on the orthodox church called the members of Mr. Peck's society together for the business meeting with the same plangent, lacerant note that summoned them to worship on Sundays.
Annie Kilburn : a Novel
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The rule of the Czar was sanctified by the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Her husband, cantor at a local Orthodox church, informed the police who arrested him.
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To my knowledge, he's right; at any rate, its inclusion here honors that book's canonical status in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
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Why does the Orthodox church use leavened bread and most Protestant fellowships use unleavened bread?
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This unusual date is because the Russian Orthodox church uses the old " Julian " calendar for religious celebration days.
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Don't Orthodox churches have onion domes?
Times, Sunday Times
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the first seven councils through 787 are considered to be ecumenical councils by both the Roman Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church but the next fourteen councils are considered ecumenical only by the Roman Catholic church
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The Eastern Orthodox churches have always allowed their priests and deacons to marry before ordination, though not after, and their bishops must be celibate.
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The Bulgarian Orthodox Church could also testify to a person's Bulgarian descent.
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It gives me great pleasure to meet Your Beatitude in this Primatial See of the Orthodox Church of Greece.
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He joined the Russian Orthodox Church in 1978, and his music has focused increasingly on the spiritual, liturgical aspects of his chosen faith.
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Harassment of religion will only tarnish the orthodox church's reputation, while steeling the resistance of persecuted faiths.
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The meeting has been organised by the Council of European Bishops Conferences CCEE, in close collaboration with various Orthodox Churches and some of the dicasteries of the Holy See.
Zenit: Conclusions of Catholic-Orthodox Family Forum
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Larger Orthodox churches are often constructed in a cross in-square configuration, and all contain an icon screen separating the sanctuary where communion bread and wine are sanctified from the rest of the building.
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While economic explanations allow us to understand the mounting debt problems facing many of the EU members, it is important to remember that political factors (institutional corruption; powerful socialist parties) and even "civilizational" issues (the influence of the conservative Catholic and Greek-Orthodox Churches) are some of the important reasons for the resistance to economic change in the southern European countries.
Leon T. Hadar: Multipolarism sans the EU Pole? The Geopolitics of Europe's Economic Mess
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Christians often wed in Orthodox churches, and a variety of wedding types exist.
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No women can become a priest in the Orthodox church or a mullah among Muslims.
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The Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus said it would not bury people taking their own lives, declaring suicides "the greatest sin.
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Incense here has, to me, a definite "churchy" feel, more specifically, for some reason it makes me think of Orthodox churches with their combination of austere spirit and Byzantine opulence.
Archive 2007-04-01
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My friend, Dr. Gosset -- who will not (I trust) petition for excommunicating me from the orthodox church to which I have the honour of belonging, if I number him in the upper class of bibliomaniacs -- was unable to attend the sale of the Pinelli collection, from severe illness: but he _did petition_ for a sight of one of these volumes of old
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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The Eastern Orthodox Church plays a central role in Greek life.
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Easter (in March or April) is the most important religious holiday and is highly revered by the Russian Orthodox Church with elaborate rituals and extravagance.
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One well known San Franciscan who has sought the solidarity-power of Occupy Bernal is 'Archbishop' Franzo King, co-founder of the St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church, a religious and cultural institution in the Western Addition community of the city.
Stardust: Homes, Not Tents, For Occupy Bernal
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This practicum, which is being offered for the third consecutive summer, is held in conjunction with the Orthodox Church in America's Diaconal Vocations Program and is highly recommended for participants in the Church's program by the Holy Synod.
News from SVOTS.Edu
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In ten short years, several historic monasteries and convents have been restored to the Orthodox church and have welcomed hundreds of young novices.
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The majority of Russians consider themselves as Christians and belong to Russian Orthodox Church.
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Since those days she has pursued her life's work as a lay theologian in the Orthodox Church.
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He called for more effort on the part of all statesmen, politicians and church leaders to resolve the schism in the Orthodox church.
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Today, the World Council of Churches also represents Eastern Orthodox Churches.
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In ten short years, several historic monasteries and convents have been restored to the Orthodox church and have welcomed hundreds of young novices.
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Several nationalistic organisations pursue this agenda using extreme individuals from the Orthodox Church.
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The feast of the Transfiguration, so venerated by the Orthodox Church, serves as a key to the understanding of the humanity of Christ in the Eastern tradition.
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They have called for a response from Bulgaria's orthodox church synod.
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Then I became a priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Eventually, in 1989, we came to America, and I am now working as an associate pastor at the First United Methodist Church in Nederland, Texas.
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In a telegram sent to the newly-elected Patriarch, the Pope wrote: May the Almighty bless your efforts to maintain communion among the Orthodox Churches and to seek that fullness of communion which is the goal of Catholic-Orthodox collaboration and dialogue.
Ecumenism
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In the seventh century matters were further complicated when the Maronites, found chiefly in Mount Lebanon, also broke away from the Orthodox church and appointed their own patriarch.
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It is known that the Orthodox Churches' reservation is based on the fact that they don't see a theological foundation that justifies the existence of the Eastern Catholic Churches, while for the Catholic Church the fact of their full communion with the Apostolic See of Rome with the bonds of the profession of the faith, of the sacraments and of the ecclesiastical government, justifies their ecclesiasticism and canonicity.
Challenges of Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue
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The Orthodox Church is composed of 23 self-governing churches that emerged from the Byzantine Empire.
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Addressing Benedict, the head of Cyprus 'Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said that "Turkey has barbarously invaded and conquered by force of arms 37 percent of our homeland.
Pope On 3-Day Visit To Cyprus
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Other denominations include the Czech Orthodox Church, the Old Catholic Church, the Unitarians, and the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic.
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Over the next few weeks, I will be working to support this idea by examining the Pelagian and Augustinian interpretations of Original Sin, examine their Salvation theologies, examine their metaphysics of God and evil, and finally examine the reasons why the orthodox Church accepted the ideas of St. Augustine.
Augustine vs. Pelagius - Part One: Man, the Fall, and Original Sin | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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The opposition of the Bulgarians led, as we have already seen, to the establishment in 1870 of the exarchate, that is, of an independent Bulgarian Orthodox Church with the exarch at its head.
The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 Third Edition
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Religious freedom in Eritrea is also almost non-existent, with the government approving only four religions and their practices: the Eritrean Orthodox Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eritrea, the Roman Catholic Church and Islam.
Kathryn Cameron Porter: Eritrea: Africa's Human Rights Black Hole
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Shortly after, Bulgaria established its own patriarchate, independent of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople.
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Compared to more orthodox Church officials they were very broad-minded about what they sought for their libraries – classic pagan Greek and Latin literature were included as enthusiastically as scripture and related Christian texts.
Saints, censors and satire
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The Spirit comes from the Father and the Son (the phrasing here is that of the credal phrase of 5th century Spanish origin, Filioque; "from the Father through the Son," is the older formula, still used by the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches).
Trinity Sunday: Musings
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Any holy hymnographers of the Orthodox Church were inspired to write not only the text of the hymns but also their melodies.
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This is one of the reasons why Chrismation has never been performed separately in the Orthodox Church.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Sitting behind the wheel of his vintage Volga car next to the bearded chief of the Russian Orthodox church, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wore a proud grin.
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The rule of the Czar was sanctified by the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Internally, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church won the right to appoint their own Abuna, rather than have the Abuna always be an Egyptian Copt appointed by the Patriarch of Alexandria.
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The Old Testament focus of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church includes dietary laws similar to the kosher tradition, circumcision after the eighth day of birth, and a Saturday sabbath.
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A vast majority of people in Greece belong to the Greek Orthodox Church.
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The Orthodox Church's willingness to enlist the state on its behalf, and in turn to offer sacral endorsement of the state's policies, has deep psychological and historical roots.
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Her largest work ever is the wooden relief aptly titled Prince of Peace - an enormous icon of Christ similar to the antique reliquaries found in many orthodox churches, except for its size.
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That governs, ordinarily, the arrangements of priests and bishops and archbishops within the Greek Orthodox Church.
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In Kiev, far from the reach of Byzantium, the regent Olga laid the foundation for the future Russian Empire in 957 when she converted to the Orthodox Church.
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Today there are sixteen separate Orthodox churches and patriarchates.
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When charismatic revivalism reaches as far and wide as the Coptic church in Ethiopia, the Catholic church in India, and the Orthodox church in Romania, then we can confidently say that the phenomenon is a global Christian one.
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Eritrean Orthodox Churches do not have pews or chairs; most churchgoers stand for the entire period unless they are elderly or sick.
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Irene is remembered in the Eastern Orthodox Church as a saint because she restored the use of icons in religious worship.
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In 1967 demotic Greek was recognized as the official spoken and written language of Greece and is the language adopted for liturgical services by the Greek Orthodox church in the United States.
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The tsar was autocrat by divine right, sustained by the endorsement of the autonomous Orthodox church under its patriarch.
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The Greeks always reordain, and those Orthodox jurisdictions in America which either stemmed from an Eastern Catholic Church (e.g., the American Carpatho-Russian Greek Catholic Orthodox Church) or drew much of their lay membership from one (e.g., the Ukrainian Orthodox Church) never reordain.
For those in "ecclesial communities"
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For this reason the hymnographers of the Orthodox Church have composed a most moving Funeral Service.
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The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church received with astonishment and regret news about brutal violence toward patients of the substance abuse in monastery Crna Reka in the Rasko-Prizrenska Eparchy.
Global Voices in English » Serbia: Torture or Therapy?
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Surprising to visitors are mosques that stand side-by-side with Byzantine Orthodox churches.
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The Kievan Russians believed that God had sent the hordes as punishment for their impiety — a belief endorsed by the Orthodox Church, which prospered under Mongol protection.
Russia Is Finished
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During the weekdays of Great Lent, the regular Eucharistic Divine Liturgy is not celebrated in Orthodox churches since the Divine Liturgy is always a paschal celebration of communion with the Risen Lord.
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The alternative synod representatives said they would ask for the summoning of a church-people's council to elect a legitimate patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
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Most Orthodox Churches in India have "harmonised" or whatever the technical term is with western Churches.
In praise of … Twelfth Night | Editorial
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It was named after Evtimii Turnovski, a renowned religious and literary figure who lived during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom and was a patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from 1375 to 1393.
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Of the remaining people, about 180,000 are members of the Eastern Orthodox Church and about 7,300 are Jewish.
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St. John of Damascus, who reposed in 749, is known as one of the great theologians and hymnographers of the Orthodox Church.
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Changes are occurring in the liturgical worship of Orthodox churches again, here and there.
