The Church is without beginning, without end, and eternal, just as the Triune God, her founder is without beginning, without end, and eternal. She is uncreated, just as God is uncreated. She existed before the ages, before the angels before the creation of the world – before the foundation of the world’ as the Apostle Paul says, ‘She is a divine institution and in her dwells the whole fullness of divinity. She an expression of the richly varied wisdom of God. She is the mystery of mysteries. She was concealed and revealed in the last of times. The Church remains unshaken because she is rooted in the wise providence of God.

Saint Porphyrios

Wounded by Love : The Life and Wisdom of Saint Porphyrios (p 87)