The Menaion for the eighth of November, containing the liturgical office for the Synaxis of the Bodiless Powers, is the Eastern Orthodox Church's own service book text naming and honoring the Archangel Michael together with the other angelic powers on their shared feast day. As the Church's own liturgical text in continuous use, it is the direct and authoritative source for what Eastern Orthodoxy itself commemorates on this feast and how the service names and orders the angelic ranks. Its limit is that it is a liturgical document expressing the Church's own devotional practice rather than an independent historical or theological study of angelology, so a comparative claim about how this ordering developed or compares to other Christian traditions benefits from a dedicated scholarly source.
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The Menaion for the eighth of November is the Eastern Orthodox Church's own standing liturgical text for the Synaxis of the Bodiless Powers, treated at the top tier as the primary liturgical source for what the feast itself contains. NotesThe liturgical office of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other bodiless powers, which names and assigns the archangels of the Eastern tradition.
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Custodian SourceYes
Custodian BodyEastern Orthodox Church
Custodian BasisA liturgical book of the Orthodox Church, in use by the Church itself. Authoritative for what the Church commemorates and how; it is not independent evidence about the beings commemorated.
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AuthorEastern Orthodox Church
Source Typeprimary-text
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This source names Eastern Orthodoxy directly: "and authoritative source for what Eastern Orthodoxy itself commemorates on this feast and how the service names and orders the angelic ranks."
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