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*[[Marriage]]

*[[Ordination]]

The 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.