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@Mozalbete ⳩ The official formal name of the Orthodox Church is actually the Orthodox Catholic Church

"The feast of soy"

If we go full formal it's Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church. ❤

no

eastern is not in the official title

Christ's ancient church isn't confined to the East

Or at least shouldn't be

It's just an unfortunate reality of the modern world that the most orthodox church was only able to thrive in one corner of the world

not true

It just got wiped out of areas

thanks to apostasy

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Well, a bunch of the church east of Pakistan went with Nestorius back in the day...

Exactly, apostasy

EO is fairly confined to it's places

Then again, the OO are even more confined

Practically non-existent outside Africa and Syria

what is: OCA, OCJ, ROCOR, patrisrchate of Alexandria's massive missionary effort

Practicing EO in the US is a lot smaller than membership and even then, they are like .5%

yeah, growing though
America is a pretty big place

In Western Europe, the practicing EO % is even smaller than US proportional to membership

The areas outside East Europe and Middle-East really have very very few EO

Does EO have missions in Africa? That's where they can grow the most usually

Prots do tons of missions down their b/c tons convert

The EO have a good amount of missions there

Tons

Through the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria

@Byzas historically the world worked to try and destroy the church but ultimately only succeeded in confining it

Of course it will rebound...

But for now it remains relatively confined; look at how widespread Romism and Prautism are

And yet EO for the most part remains so confined to Eastern Europe with small pockets of faithful in Muslim lands that normies think it's an ethnic thing despite phyletism being condemned.

Ask any burger about Orthodoxy and you will only get disappointing results. Everyone thinks you are Catholic.

Technically they are correct

Southern Evangelicals are sort of a peasant's Christianity without a clergy or liturgy to guide it, simply left astray
Whereas the North's faith is all but dead

I pray for our nation, for we are in a dire way with regards to the Church

@Burgermeister what are you

Anglo-Orthodox, if that makes any sense

Also a lot of evangelicals believe in "once saved, always saved" bullshit