Editing Immaculate Conception (section)

===Eastern Orthodoxy===
[[Eastern Orthodoxy]] never accepted Augustine's specific ideas on original sin, and in consequence did not become involved in the later developments that took place in the Catholic Church, including the Immaculate Conception,{{sfn|McGuckin|2010|p=218}}{{sfn|Coyle|1996|p=36}} although Eastern Orthodoxy affirms Mary's purity and preservation from [[Christian views on sin|sin]].

In 1894, when Pope [[Leo XIII]] addressed the Eastern church in his encyclical ''Praeclara gratulationis'', Ecumenical Patriarch [[Anthimus VII of Constantinople|Anthimos]], in 1895, replied with an encyclical approved by the Constantinopolitan Synod in which he stigmatised the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and papal infallibility as "Roman novelties" and called on the Roman church to return to the faith of the early centuries.{{sfn|Meyendorff|1981|p=90}} Eastern Orthodox Bishop [[Kallistos Ware]] comments that "the [[Latin Church|Latin]] dogma seems to us not so much erroneous as superfluous".{{sfn|Ware|1995|p=77}}