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Gloria Patri


Gloria Patri, also known as the Gloria, Glory Be to the Father or, colloquially, the Glory Be, is a doxology, a short hymn of praise to God in various Christian liturgies. It is also referred to as the Minor Doxology (Doxologia Minor) or Lesser Doxology, to distinguish it from the Greater Doxology, the Gloria in Excelsis Deo.

The earliest Christian doxologies are addressed to God the Father alone, or to Him "through" (διὰ) the Son, or to the Father and the Holy Spirit with (μετά) the Son, or to the Son with (σύν) the Father and the Holy Spirit.

The Trinitarian doxology addressed in parallel fashion to all three Divine Persons of the Trinity, joined by and (καί), as in the form of baptism, Matthew 28:19, became universal in Nicaean Christianity, which became dominant with the Edict of Thessalonica of 380.

The Greek wording is as follows:

The second part is occasionally slightly modified and other verses are sometimes introduced between the two halves.

According to Worship Music: A Concise Dictionary, the lesser doxology is of Syrian origin.

There is an alternate version which the Syriac Catholic Church and the Syriac Orthodox Church use in their Liturgies

In Orthodoxy, Arabic is one of the official liturgical languages of the Church of Jerusalem and the Church of Antioch, both Orthodox Churches and two of the four ancient Patriarchates of the Pentarchy.


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