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→"Supersession" in Orthodoxy
Fr. Evan Armatas of Saint Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church uses it to describe the relative importance of parts of the Bible:
:The New Testament, as we call it, is the last part of the Christian Bible, and we accept both Old and New, although we do believe that the New Testament supersedes the Old.Within the New.. . :If you do not have the framework that the New Testament supersedes the Old, you’re going to run into some theological problems. People do this all the time. They’ll quote something in the Old Testament to contradict what the Church teaches, and we don’t do that in the Church. In the Church, we keep the hierarchy of the Bible by the way we do it liturgically. Where is the Gospel? On the altar table. Where [are] the epistles and the Old Testament? Out on the side. <ref>Fr. Evan Armatas, "Formation of the New Testament Canon", Ancient Faith Radio. http://ancientfaith.com/podcasts/transforminglives/formation_of_the_new_testament_canon</ref>
Pope St. [[Leo the Great]] in his Sermon on the Passion described Old Testament elements as ceasing, or passing into or changing into New Testament ones, noting that ''"the True Sheep had to supersede the sheep which was its antitype"''.<ref>St. Leo the Great, On the Passion, VII. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/360358.htm</ref> The idea of [[Typology]] in the Old Testament prophesying the new one is an important concept in Orthodox theology.
