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This article examines the description of the Church in Orthodox canon law. One of the challenges that the Church faces in the modern age is to more completely appropriate its received canonical tradition, in order to better describe or express its nature within contemporary circumstances of history. Without a serious examination of our living inheritance and its translation into our contemporary circumstances, there is a danger of distortion in our ecclesiological structures as well as damage to our canonical standards for the pastoral life of the contemporary Orthodox Church.

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