Adelphopoiesis
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title:
Adelphopoiesis
text:
Adelphopoiesis or adelphopoiia is a ceremony practiced historically in Eastern Christian tradition to unite together two people of the same sex in a church-recognized relationship analogous to siblinghood. Such ceremonies can be found in the history of the Catholic Church until the 14th century and in the Eastern Orthodox Church until the early 20th century. Documented in Byzantine manuscripts from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries, prayers established participants as 'spiritual brothers' and
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description:
Medieval Christian ceremony to unite two people of the same sex
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelphopoiesis
date created:
2004-11-19T15:55:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T23:34:30Z
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