PRE-MODERN ORTHODOXY: CHURCH FEATURES AND TRANSFORMATIONS.

The article presents a study of the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church focusing on the changes it went through politically and theologically as national Orthodox Churches gained independence in many of the Slavic countries. The author questions the applicability of the major theological doctrines of the Orthodox Christianity such as the Symphony, the Counciliarity and the Autocephaly in the modern context. Other topics such the Orthodox respect and use of the native language, the relations with the political leaders of the sovereign state are also discussed. Finally an overview of the history Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire is proposed.