Jerusalem, Synod of

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Jerusalem, Synod of. A council of the Orthodox church, convened by Dositheus, patriarch of Jerusalem, in 1672 to reject Cyril Lucar's sympathy with some aspects of Calvinism. It emphasized church and sacraments, and with the Synod of Jassy (1642) it resembled the reaction to the Reformation of Tridentine Catholicism.

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