What are the beliefs of the Orthodox Church?
In the year 325 AD in the city of Constantinople, a council of all the Bishops of the Church was called to refute false beliefs or heresies that were being spread throughout the Church. In defending the Church from heresy, a statement of faith was put together to neatly define what the beliefs of the Church are. This statement of faith eventually became known as the Nicene-Constantinople Creed. It goes as follows: I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten, begotten of the Father before all ages. Light of Light; true God of true God; begotten, not made; of one essence with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man. And He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered, and was buried. And the third day He rose again,
