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Melchite vs Melkite - What's the difference?

melchite | melkite | Alternative forms |

Melchite is an alternative form of melkite.


As nouns the difference between melchite and melkite

is that melchite is while melkite is (christianity) an eastern christian who adhered to the doctrines agreed by the (first council of ephesus) and the (council of chalcedon) (originally as labelled by opponents); later, an orthodox christian using the byzantine rite and part of the patriarchate of antioch, jerusalem or alexandria.

melchite

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Noun

(en noun)

    • melkite

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    Alternative forms

    *Melchite

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Christianity) An Eastern Christian who adhered to the doctrines agreed by the (First Council of Ephesus) and the (Council of Chalcedon) (originally as labelled by opponents); later, an Orthodox Christian using the Byzantine rite and part of the patriarchate of Antioch, Jerusalem or Alexandria.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 233:
  • *:increasingly a majority in the Egyptian Church as well as other strongholds of Miaphysitism denounced Chalcedonian Christians as ‘Dyophysites’ and sneered at them as ‘the emperor's people’ – Melchites .