scroll down for church governance and jurisdiction

Thanks.

if you want a more in-depth analysis I can send you one

Screenshots don’t always do well on the phone 🤣

true, I forgot you aren't on pc 😛

They work okay when I take them and crop everything around. Desktop likes to make it huge, then discord compresses the image. So it gets all fuzzy when I try to zoom in.

I'll send you in pm a more in-depth analysis of how orthodoxy is structured

👍🏻

So there’s 15 bishops?

Or does every worship center have a bishop?

Pretty sure they have more than that

We have thousands

@Andrules Kinda a lot as they do have different ranks

Yeah and a bishop reigns over a diocese. Which is several parishes. Referring to rags on Catholics.

It's just that its bishop has authority only in his church and not the others

So they have authority only in their own jurisdiction

Same here

But then you have councils of bishops that meet to keep the church doctrine established.

The wiki says synods.

Except the Bishop of Rome has primacy

Ecumenical council, synod etc

So you have synods of bishops that convene and determine Orthodox Church doctrine.

Our doctrines and theirs are pretty much settled already. Councils just clarify ideas and interpretations

So Orthodox is decentralized, in that you don’t have a pope, but you still have a governing body that keeps the Orthodox Church in line.

Yes, the autocephales are meant to keep their church in-line

If one of the bishops decides to change, it seems that he and his churches would be removed from the title of orthodox.

what do you mean change?

Like no longer considered orthodox by the the others.

No

they would be either schismatic so the communion with the churches would end

like the church of Constantinople with the church of Russia

@Deleted User yeah that’s what I meant. I know y’alls doctrines are basically established and unchanging. But like you said, questions arise about interpretations of verses and stuff.

Ah ok. So Russia and “Greek” orthodox aren’t in communion now?

wrong

Greece has its own church nowdays

it isn't the same church with Constantinople

Oh I see.

Before our revolution against the ottomans we were under the jurisdiction of Constantinople

The only thing I could say that its bad in a decentralized church is that it can be weaponized like it has been done in Russia numerous times

Yeah. There’s a lot of pros and cons in a centralized vs decentralized church.

Local pastors can be corrupted and paid off to influence people. And without a governing body for them to report to, it may never be discovered.