page_title: Canonization
section_title: Eastern Orthodox Church
hierarchical_section_title: Canonization / Eastern Orthodox Church
caption_attribution_description: Türkçe: Büyük İzmir Yangını sırasında askerleri tarafından katledilen, 1922. Français&#160;: Victimes de l'Incendie de Smyrne (Izmir), Septembre de 1922. English: Victims of the Great Fire of Smyrna (Izmir), September 1922.
context_page_description: Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public cult and entering his or her name in the canon, or authorized list, of that communion’s recognized saints.
context_section_description: The following terms are used for canonization by the autocephalous national Orthodox Churches: канонизация or прославление "glorification" (Russian Orthodox Church), კანონიზაცია kanonizats’ia (Georgian Orthodox Church), канонизација (Serbian Orthodox Church), canonizare (Romanian Orthodox Church), and Канонизация (Bulgarian Orthodox Church). The following terms are used for canonization by other autocephalous Orthodox Churches: αγιοκατάταξη (Katharevousa: 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" for granting official recognition to someone as a saint—see glorification.
caption: On 4 November 1992, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece unanimously declared Christians that were tortured and massacred by the Turks in the Great fire of Smyrna in 1922 as saints.[30][31]
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