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The church modes are just a special set of scales. Many many scales have more than one name, for instance, the Double Harmonic Scale is also known as the Byzantine Scale.
The names of the church modes were determined by the Catholic Church. They were incorrectly based on the ancient greek modes, but the Greeks did not call the same scales by the same names.
You can extend the idea of the church modes to any scale, for instance, the Hirrajoshi scale taken up to the second degree is the Iwato scale.
\\but these are not known as "modes." They are more formally called "related scales."
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