Editing Canonization (section)

== Eastern Orthodox Church<!--linked from 'Glorification'--> ==
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[[File:Пиотровский. батакская резня. 1889 год.jpeg|thumb|The Turkish [[Batak massacre|atrocities in Bulgaria]] (1876). On 3 April 2011, Batak massacre victims were canonized as saints.]]
[[File:Smyrna-massacre greeks-killed line.jpg|thumb|On 4 November 1992, the [[Holy Synod]] of the [[Church of Greece]] unanimously declared saints those Christians who had been tortured and massacred by the Turks in the [[Great fire of Smyrna]] in 1922.<ref>''[http://www.triglia.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=39+%CE%91%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82+%CE%A7%CF%81%CF%85%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82+%CE%A3%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82&ct=clnk Αγ. Χρυσόστομος Σμύρνης].'' {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20110721083437/http://www.triglia.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=39+%CE%91%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82+%CE%A7%CF%81%CF%85%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82+%CE%A3%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82&ct=clnk |date=21 July 2011 }}. Municipality of [[Triglia]]. Retrieved: 7 September 2012.</ref><ref>{{in lang|el}} Κων/τίνος Β. Χιώλος. ''"[http://www.serrelib.gr/arthra.php?id=25 Ο μαρτυρικός θάνατος του Μητροπολίτου Σμύρνης]"''. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912215241/http://www.serrelib.gr/arthra.php?id=25 |date=12 September 2017 }}. Δημοσια Κεντρικη Βιβλιοθηκη Σερρων. Τετάρτη, 13 Σεπτεμβρίου 2006.</ref>]]

Various terms are used for canonization by the [[autocephalous]] [[Eastern Orthodox Church]]es: канонизация<ref>[http://www.pravmir.ru/pochemu-byl-kanonizirovan-nikolaj-vtoroj/ "Почему был канонизирован Николай Второй?"] by [[Protodeacon]] [[Andrey Kuraev]] at Pravmir.ru (17 July 2009)</ref> ("canonization") or прославление<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.pravmir.ru/proslavlenie-svyatyx-eto-ne-delo-uzkogo-kruga-specialistov-eto-delo-vsej-cerkvi/| title = "Прославление святых – это не дело узкого круга специалистов, это дело всей Церкви" by Julija Birjukova at Pravmir.ru (9 Dec. 2013)}}</ref> ("[[Glorification#Eastern Orthodox Church|glorification]]",<ref>[http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/glorification_saints.htm "On the Glorification of Saints"] by [[Protopresbyter]] [[Michael Pomazansky]]</ref> in the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]), კანონიზაცია (''kanonizats’ia'', [[Georgian Orthodox Church]]), канонизација ([[Serbian Orthodox Church]]), ''canonizare'' ([[Romanian Orthodox Church]]), and Канонизация ([[Bulgarian Orthodox Church]]). Additional terms are used for canonization by other autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches: {{lang|el|αγιοκατάταξη}}<ref>[[Georgios Babiniotis]]. ''[[Dictionary of Modern Greek]]'', Athens: Lexicology Centre, 1998, p. 53.</ref> ([[Katharevousa]]: {{lang|el|ἁγιοκατάταξις}}) ''agiokatataxi/agiokatataxis'', "ranking among saints" ([[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]], [[Church of Cyprus]], [[Church of Greece]]), ''kanonizim'' ([[Albanian Orthodox Church]]), ''kanonizacja'' ([[Polish Orthodox Church]]), and ''kanonizace/kanonizácia'' ([[Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church]]).

The [[Orthodox Church in America]], an Eastern Orthodox Church partly recognized as autocephalous, uses the term "[[Glorification#Eastern Orthodox Church|glorification]]" for the official recognition of a person as a saint.<ref>[http://www.oca.org/FS.NA-Document.asp?ID=83 "The Glorification of Saints in the Orthodox Church"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408161218/http://oca.org/FS.NA-Document.asp?ID=83 |date=8 April 2016 }} by Fr. Joseph Frawley</ref>