Message from @Byzas
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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%
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
Anglo Orthodox?