Editing Excommunication (section)

=== Eastern Orthodox Church ===
In the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], excommunication is the exclusion of a member from the [[Eucharist]]. It is not expulsion from the churches. This can happen for such reasons as not having confessed within that year; excommunication can also be imposed as part of a penitential period. It is generally done with the goal of restoring the member to full communion. Before an excommunication of significant duration is imposed, the bishop is usually consulted. The Eastern Orthodox do have a means of expulsion, by pronouncing [[anathema]], but this is reserved only for acts of serious and unrepentant heresy. As an example of this, the [[Second Council of Constantinople]] in 553, in its eleventh capitula, declared: "If anyone does not anathematize [[Arius]], [[Eunomius of Cyzicus|Eunomius]], [[Macedonius I of Constantinople|Macedonius]], [[Apollinaris of Laodicea|Apollinaris]], [[Nestorius]], [[Eutyches]] and [[Origen]], as well as their impious writings, as also all other heretics already condemned and anathematized by the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and by the aforesaid four Holy Synods and [if anyone does not equally anathematize] all those who have held and hold or who in their impiety persist in holding to the end the same opinion as those heretics just mentioned: let him be anathema."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf214.xii.vii.html |title=NPNF2-14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils - Christian Classics Ethereal Library |publisher=Ccel.org |date=2005-06-01 |access-date=2014-07-29}}</ref>