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Slavic Orthodox
Slavic Orthodox Church
or
Slavonic Orthodox Church
is an umbrella term for
Orthodox Christian
Churches that use
Church Slavonic
or another Slavic language in their
liturgies
, typically of the
Byzantine Rite
. All Slavic Churches, with the exception of the
Bulgarian
and
Polish Churches
, use the
Julian calendar
exclusively, and all use it to calculate the date
Pascha
(Easter) is celebrated.
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