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*[[Ordination]]varied asThe Latin influence of the seventeenth century is the reason that the Church fixed these seven as only official sacraments. Earlier, Orthodox writers varied as to the number of sacraments: [[John of Damascus]] lists only two; [[Dionysius the Areopagite]] lists six; Joasaph, Metropolitan of Ephesus (fifteenth century), ten; and some Byzantine theologians who list seven sacraments differ on the items in their list.