TOP 130.
Church plus State Oppression.
121) Christendom: the historical Orthodox concept of Christendom, closely linked with its almost twin heresy "Christian Empire" is one based in tyranny, bloodshed, and imprisonment and no real freedom, ( murder ) ( churchianity ) ( tyranny )
( authority ) ( people ) ( laity ) ( Empire )
122) Serfdom : the social / economic sins by a church that "cannot err"
( murder ) ( churchianity ) ( tyranny ) ( authority ) ( people ) ( laity ) ( Empire )
123) Churchianity - (derogatory) Any practices of Christianity that are viewed as placing a larger emphasis on the habits of church life, rites, rituals, and man made traditions, rather than on biblical theology and spiritual teachings and example of Jesus. ( churchianity )
124) Crypto-converts: their enforced pseudo "conversion" by threats. what kind of religion threatens people with prison, death or persecution if they do not pretend to convert? Huge numbers forced under their phony "saints equal to the apostles", Emperor Charlemagne etc
( murder ) ( churchianity ) ( tyranny )
( authority ) ( people ) ( laity ) ( Empire )
125) They are spiritual drunkards (Rev 17). INDOCTRINATION of children helps produce this. ( churchianity ) ( children ) Thus a low score on the "Corruption Perception Index".
126) Orthodoxy is an Anachronistic Faith (see 162): the sinister use of uniforms in the faith, and crowns and miters, is based on anachronistic comparisons with the old Roman Empire's clothing. Same with architecture and artifacts. They draw pseudo authority from an Empire that was from the start always evil. (conceptual)
( hypocrisy )
127) Ethno-Phyletism issues: this is a tricky issue as some churches where this "sin" goes on are in war torn areas where they wish to avoid people like shooters and suicide bombers and thus wish only to fellowship with people of the same ethnicity. (racism) ( murder )
128) Movable doctrines - "Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them." Proverbs 5:6. Orthodoxy give far less specific answers than Catholic scholars. If it became an embarrassment to them that their doctrine Jesus earned the resurrection for all means he died to burn people in Hell, I guarantee they would change it and say that they were misunderstood.
(conceptual) ( hypocrisy )
129) "All your sins will be forgiven if you go out on The Crusade" - I have yet to find out if the Orthodox Titular Head made the same promise in the Crusades in which the Byzantine half of the Empire participated. Remember that Orthodoxy makes the oxymoronic claim of being pacifist, which is more like in real terms the clergy don't fight, the "laity" must fight. If the Byzantine Orthodox were really pacifist and said so either the Catholics or Arabs would simply walk in and take over the Eastern part of the Empire unopposed. The Orthodox doctrine on this is an insult to the intelligence of their own church goers.
130) The persecution. imprisonment, murder, torture and banishment of real Christians. ( murder ) ( churchianity ) ( tyranny ) ( authority ) ( people ) ( laity ) ( Empire )
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TOP 140 .
131) Canonization in Orthodoxy is called "Glorification to sainthood" - the form of - but Romans 1 tells us all believers are saints. ( saints ) ( churchianity )
132)
133) Changing the meaning of the Greek expressions "believe on" and "believe in" - this means in Greek "to trust in" or "rely on" Jesus for salvation, obviously this is changed by Orthodoxy, just as the word grace is changed.
( salvation )
134) The Three hierarchs (three heretics actually). refers to
1) Basil the Great (also known as Basil of Caesarea), 329 - 379 AD,
sins: rules for monastic life (unbiblical), contributions to heretical canon law, and contribution to liturgies. (for centuries the Orthodox told the uneducated public he wrote the Liturgy of St. Basil now they try to retract that.
2) Gregory the Theologian (also known as Gregory of Nazianzus) . 330-389 AD,
sins: propagated the heretic Origen, Gregory seems to have been an early sacerdotalist (if so he was one of the most evil men who ever lived), his friend Gregory of Nyssa, may have supported some form of the doctrine of apocatastasis,
3) John Chrysostom. (researching) ( saints ) ( bogus saints )
135: Mortification: this topic has some biblical credibility, but not when it is used as a religious deception device, especially in the sense of it achieving purity or the forgiveness of sin, or connected with the hesychasm or monasticism.
( monks ) ( Catholic ) ( mystics )
136) Oversimplification of the character of God:
the Orthodox oversimplify God's character by saying that if God is love (a scripture) he cannot have wrath. It is a puerile oversimplification of God's character, (do we not also naturally and rightly feel angry about many of the worst crimes we hear of?)
They will even compare a God who has wrath with with demons like Baal and Moloch, in other words they say if God has wrath (he does) he is a sinner!!! Do not forget by saying these things they are talking also about the Holy Spirit.
This is involved in 2 other heresies
1) No wrath of God means no fires of Hell (loving them tortures them in Orthodox theology)
2) Jesus never saved us from the wrath of God when he died and rose again, as if he did he achieved salvation for us all on his own, a truth that destroys Orthodox pretensions about a process of salvation that is a synergy. ( God ) ( Hell )
137) Forgiveness of sin through Calvary denied - absurdly Orthodoxy argues that as Jesus forgave individual sin before the cross and resurrection. the gospel does not bring forgiveness to mankind (as if it did their junk priestcraft/works gospel falls apart). The fact that the gospel is not necessarily the only way God can forgive sin does not stop the fact that sin was and is washed away by his blood. One must remember the resurrection adds justification (to be made just in God's sight) as well as his crucifixion dealing with sin. ( salvation ) ( gospel)
138) Reconciliation
and the Hypostatic Union -
(notice they do not say salvation) In Orthodoxy reconciliation happens in the hypostatic union when Christ is conceived or some say born (the combination of divine and human natures in the single person of Christ.) when the perfection of God and "humankind in its totality" (that is human nature as a collective) are inseparably united in Jesus, (all that is Creator and all that is created) so God reconciles humanity to himself in the person of Christ.
The cross - in Orthodoxy is Christ entering into death to destroy the power of death, not to forgive sin (>>>) wow heresy. Jesus did not die to earn hell for those who would not be otherwise resurrected.
Eastern Church tends towards a therapeutic model of which sees sin as illness,
( salvation ) ( gospel)
139) Renunciation of Errors (in Chrismation ceremonies) - renounce in public the Reformation and the Protestant / Evangelical gospel as false. Laughably they then later on masquerade as Evangelicals as the simple Evangelical gospel is too powerful to oppose. ( salvation ) ( gospel)
140) Denial of "the works of the flesh". The Orthodox are very tricky about this issue. They deny the doctrine of Catholicism of "venial sin and mortal sin" but avoid the more directly biblical issue that certain sins are put in the special classification of "works of the flesh". ( sin ) ( LAW )
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141) A cherry-picking form of The Judaizing heresy - they cherry pick the old law now quote "done away" as if the old testament is there for them to pick and choose laws, and create a new syncretic faith (which is exactly what they have done). What is different about Orthodoxy is (unlike most Judaizing cults) the laws they cherry pick from Mosaic Law are blended with traditions that are entirely anti Mosaic Law (like leavended wine and bread in communion) and even aspects of antisemitism. They do not seem to understand old law was done away, was draconian ("that neither we nor our fathers could bear" - Peter) we do not pick, choose and reinvent bits to keep now, like "holy beards" or golden artefacts in the temple.
note: It is indeed a paradox that Eastern Orthodoxy is on the one hand strongly resists the Judaizing heresy of the so called "Hebrew Roots Movement" yet they have invented a syncretic religion that involves cherry picking old testament concepts and laws and mixing them with the new testament law. ( salvation ) (LAW)
142) They deny the character of the new covenant which is freedom - the new covenant is characterised by freedom in Christ, they adopt the most draconian concepts of the old Mosaic Covenant (described as done away) in order to bring believers in the new covenant era into religious bondage to clockwork religious concepts like keeping a plethora of feasts. In Christ we have freedom about days (Rom 16) and we have freedom in food (Col 2:21) what is more the imposed fast days and food regulations break another of Christs teachings - to keep your fasting a secret. ( salvation ) (LAW)
143) They deny the Millennium Kingdom - as far as my studies go so far, the Eastern Orthodox religion are amillennialist in their theology, probably because they cannot stand the thought Jesus will return, reign here, sweep away the fake sacerdotalist ministry, and rule with those who would not take the mark of the beast. In other words the Eastern Orthodox fake ministry will be swept away.
( Eschatology ) ( authority )
144) Candle lighting - are considered sacrifices to Mary and saints. Mentioned in Rev 18 as sins of the Whore of Babylon. More ritualism and churchianity practices instead of an ongoing relationship with God. They simply discovered people love to light candles, and used this human fascination to destroy human souls. Candles are often used in witchcraft. ( witchcraft ) ( prayer )
145) The liturgical year - the cycle of liturgical seasons, feast days, including celebrations of saints, to be observed in a display of foolish clockwork religiosity, having portions of Scripture to be read out like robots either in an annual cycle or in a cycle of several years. ( salvation ) ( liturgy ) ( forgery )
( spirituality)
146) Canon Law - an admixture of truth and heresy that to the Orthodox has more authority than the new testament. (LAW)
147) Cathedrals - God's Cathedral in Acts was to be in nature by a river. Building big church buildings is largely an insult to the poor. ( churchianity )
( religious hypnotism )
148) Leavened Bread & alcoholic wine in the eucharist - the evidence of scripture would suggest the wine and bread were both unleavened. ( the mass )
149) Nepsis linked with Catharsis: Parallels could likely be made between nepsis and Jewish devekut. showing yet another Talmudic type root of Orthodox whoredom with religions. Both nepsis and catharsis have elements of truth but were systematized in links with monastic religious pretentions. ( monks ) ( gurus ) (Catholic)
150) Forbidding to interpret and have doctrines on the Book of Revelation - a clear attempt to hide from the Orthodox the evidence that Orthodoxy is a daughter of the Mother of Harlots. note... when Orthodoxy itself does interpret Revelation they seem to make one heresy after another - the woman in Rev 12 is Mary instead of Israel, they are amillennial, they claim the presence of incense in heaven means it is a divine directive to intoxicate church goers with clouds of it. ( eschatology )
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TOP 160.
151) The Canons of the Council of Nicea, and Nicene Creed (325) (and other Creeds) contain much heresy, yet are treated as if on a par with scripture.
( authority ) (LAW)
152) The church tradition (and thus infallible) that Cremation destroys the soul.
that any should could be annihilated is heresy, but this also denies Hitler (if he was cremated) escapes eternal punishment. ( tradition ) ( salvation ) ( death cult )
( burials )
153) Orthodox Christian (or Christian) should or must be buried in consecrated ground - and that the definition of that is that it is consecrated by all their Babylonian rituals. ( tradition ) ( salvation ) ( death cult ) ( burials )
154) False man made burial rites of no importance - according to the Orthodox rites and service of burial (Nekrosimos). (anything about funerals is an emotive issue). ( tradition ) ( salvation ) ( death cult ) ( burials )
155) The (so called) Church may deny a burial on Orthodox land to those who have committed a sin such as blasphemy, suicide, denial of their faith etc. In other words refusing to bury a person if he became a real Christian (for instance). Pure heresy and manipulation. What is more - if they deny mortal sin or "works of the flesh" and all sin is the same, why forbid burial in this way? ( tradition ) ( salvation ) ( death cult ) ( burials )
156) The ovum of Mary must definitely have been used in Christ's conception - so far as I understand Orthodoxy insists that you must believe that the actual ovum of Mary was used in the conception of Christ ( the prophecy quoting thy "seed" does not necessarily mean "her ovum") and not that his conception was entirely miraculous but in her womb without the ovum used. I am not denying her ovum was used, but I do question forcing young believers to form a definite doctrine on this. To them it is an essential or more central issue as to them the hypostatic union heals corporate human nature. The belief that Mary's ovum must be used is of less controversy as they do not believe in original sin, (Catholics believe the conception of Mary herself was miraculous). ( Mary ) ( salvation )
157) Beards and the clergy - so what are they actually saying? Only the clergy should have beards, or all Orthodox men? And is the old covenant law on beards still here, including not trimming the edges? It might be interesting to find out how many bishops of Rome had beards before the 1054 split. It is part of Messianic Judaism to keep these beard laws when the new testament calls the old law done away (2 Cor 3), and an emphasis on how the Orthodox have never understood the covenants of God. ( gurus ) ( LAW ) ( inverse Babylonization )
158) Ordination gives Authority to teach - Holy Spirit as our personal guide and teacher (Protestant / Evangelical) versus ordination. ( authority ) ( LAW )
159) Mystification of doctrine: - bible says to be clear. ( mystery babylon ) ( LAW ) ( inverse Babylonization )
160) The "laity" - Jesus says "you are all brethren". This is the root of Scofield's interpretation of Nicolaitan heresy which contains Nico - lording / power over - laitan (laos) - the laity, The Orthodox often say this was a sex cult started by the Nicholas of the bible (more forgery of history by them). ( inverse Babylonization )
( early cults - Laodicean ) ( authority )
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TOP 170.
161) The 7 Sins of Rome (Rev 18:1-24):
1) "The fruits that thy soul lusted after" - world wide trade in artefacts, and dainty and goodly things.
2) pretentious religious music, in the case of Orthodoxy (a daughter of Rome) this takes the form of chanting not singing. Chanting heresy is supposed to fool you into thinking it is holy. etc.
3) craftsman - idols, church finery etc
4) millstone - the mass bread
5) candle burning rituals
6) bride and groom - marriage falsely termed a sacrament
7) thy sorceries - the witchcraft of her heresies and practices.
162) It is an oxymoronic religion - (perhaps more than any other sect claiming to be Christian)
163) No work on Sunday?? - Catholics say you should not work on Sunday, except for a few exceptions they make, like perhaps doctors on call, or workers in an electrical power-plant etc. The Orthodox are more cagey on this and I have yet to extract a definitive answer. The (erroneous) doctrine is in effect treating Sunday as a "new sabbath" but less draconian. The Christian sabbath is eternal (Hebrews 4) earned for believers by Christ.
164) The Anathemas - (eg of the synod Constantinople): the heresy of declaring people anathema over calendar issues, but themselves bringing on themselves the anathema of God promised in Galatians 1:6-9 by preaching their false gospel of works and sacerdotalism.
165) Religious Colonialism by land buying.
LAND GRABBING
The church is the second-largest landowner in Greece, after the state, with about 130,000 hectares.
166) Infallible traditions of the church in general - be honest with yourself..... if just one of the criticisms I make on this website about Orthodoxy and traditions is true, then their entire "infallible church traditions" idea drops to pieces. It is an "infallible heresy".
167) Churches being autocephalous and non autocephalous - (of an Eastern Christian Church) appointing its own head, not subject to the authority of an external patriarch or archbishop. The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) for instance is not recognized as an autocephalous church. In Evangelicalism there is ONE church, that is the body of Christ. A bishop is not an overseer anywhere in the new testament of one or several countries. The Apostles were church planters and had special authority from God and Orthodoxy does not claim they are apostles.
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Angel heresies: x3.
168) That angels are superior in nature and intelligence to man - wrong as we are the sons of God, they are not.
169) Unprovable Angelic order (tagmata):
170) In the Orthodox worship, every Monday is dedicated to the angels.
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TOP 180.
171) Hank Hanegraaff and the Fifty Fifty Cult:
he preaches a mongrel Faith and is not put in his place. because of the sin of respect of persons
Hank Hanegraaff's apostasy from the Protestant Faith into Eastern Orthodoxy is of significance more because he is highlighting a new wave of heresy in the Orthodox religion, that might be best called "the fifty fifty cult" were the Orthodox do not exercise the discipline that is supposed to characterize their church, and allow people like Hank to preach a shape shifting new potpourri religion that is neither Evangelical, nor Orthodox. So just remember - every time you hear him preaching he is living proof of a lack of discipline in the Orthodoxy Faith (proof they are not in the Spirit in itself), and that they allow their novice proselytes to preach what amounts to a new fifty fifty cult that is neither Protestantism nor Eastern Orthodoxy just contradictory nonsense.
172) Mysticism. quote: "The premise of all mysticism is that experiential knowledge of God takes preference over doctrinal understanding of the character and being of God because of the transcendent nature of God. One of the ways mysticism gained a foothold in Eastern Orthodoxy was by the emphasis of certain Orthodox “Church Fathers” upon the “way of negation” also known as “apophatic”1 theology."
173) The strange tradition of "Crowning" in their marriage ceremony was probably introduced into their religion to let them say "Are we not all crowned when we marry" in order to justify their absurdly proud practice of putting crowns on bishop's heads.
174) Female deacons, nuns, abbesses etc, justified partly by their false believe several females they see as saints were "equal to the apostles". Women were anointed by the Spirit at Pentecost. that does not however mean they are to be deacons.
175) Liturgy and restriction of languages - Liturgies and "services" prior to the 9th century were in Greek only, the Catholics claim Latin (perhaps a division in the Empire halves, or.... someone among them is lying) only later other specific languages were introduced. This is worth researching as if its true two distinct languages were used it almost inevitably was a sign a rift would occur by 1054.
176) Sycophancy to political figures, kings and queens.
This sin has pervaded their faith to saturation level, from the days of the mass murderer Emperor Constantine, to the fawning of modern day Russians toward President Vladimir Putin. It is deadly heresy, as it is not the fulfilment of Romans 13 in that it does not so much recognize figures like Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar etc can be used by God just as the Assyrian were in Isaiah 10, but rather exalts these political figures to the level of David, Samson, Gideon or Joshua, which they never are.
177) Evolutionism is taught by many (under pressure from the state) they are cowards in the face of secular persecution. They are not put in their place for this and repudiated and disciplined. Chi;dren are being indoctrinated with illogical pseudoscience.
178) Homosexuality is accepted by many as "biblical" (under pressure from the state ) some of their bishops are cowards in the face of secular persecution, and are not being reprimanded and put in their place.
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179)
180) Giving babies and children alcohol.
132) +
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TOP 70.
Contentious Issues:
61) They deny Christ died as a substitute sacrifice .
The Evangelical and Protestant gospel is found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 and Luke 24:44-48, and is belief in Christ crucified, buried and resurrected for salvation, repentance always being present to distinguish the belief as genuine. not some "mouthed prayer" or vain acceptance of the gift of salvation in Christ. it at no time includes the concept of "a substitute sacrifice". As the issue is therefore neutral to salvation (that is a person can choose to have no doctrine on it and be in a condition of salvation) is not an Orthodox heresy or error therefore to chose not to accept it, but what is an error and a heresy is their outright statement that salvation is not a gift earned solely by Jesus, and their technique of always presenting that theme of the Protestant gospel as inexorably connected to the theme of a substitute sacrifice (which it is not). ( salvation )
Hebrews tells us that "the blood of bulls and of goats cannot take away sin". Thus all the temple sacrifices of the old testament in the temple, and the yearly sacrifice for sins, could not take sin away in themselves other than by the mercy of Christ. The sacrifice of Christ himself however can take away sins, and REPLACES (or SUBSTITUTES) the clearly symbolic sacrifices of the old covenant that centre in the forgiving power of the blood of Jesus.
62) They deny Jesus was a ransom sacrifice .
Once again the Orthodox say the concept of "a ransom sacrifice" is inextricably linked with the Protestant / Evangelical "Jesus Saves Gospel", when as we have seen "the simplicity of the gospel of Christ" in I Cor 15:1-4, Luke 24:44-48, makes not mention of it, thus a doctrine on it is not necessary for salvation. This is tactic is adopted by Orthodoxy in order to cause confusion over the two diametric beliefs about this, that is
1) The ransom was paid to God.
2) The ransom was paid to Satan (as symbolically represented in the book "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe"?)
And whether it is ever wise to add it to the gospel message at all. ( salvation )
note: The Orthodox falsely add both the "The substitute sacrifice" and "The ransom sacrifice" themes to the Protestant Gospel in order to cloud the central issue, that in Orthodoxy Jesus did not secure salvation for the believer in his death and resurrection, but it was only part of a synergy or "process of salvation". whereas in Protestantism he did secure our actual salvation, presented as "the gift of God" to the believer on belief.
63) They deny the imputation of the righteousness of Christ to the believer, and the concept of "The Lord our righteousness."
Again, this is not specifically mention in the "Jesus Saves Gospel". A new believer or "babe in Christ" does not have to specify a doctrine on this issue, to be in a present state of salvation through belief in (to "trust in" and "rely upon") Christ. Do I believe the only righteousness I have is that given me as a gift through Christ? And that his righteousness "exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees"? Yes. But I do not believe it is a specific doctrine to be believed or professed to be in a state of salvation, that is if you died then and there you would be saved by Christ because of his finished work on Calvary and his resurrection.
( salvation )
64) The descent into Hell of Christ, between his burial and resurrection (superfluous add on doctrine).
To keep the so called Catholic Faith and be saved, you must believe their view of the "descent into Hell." It seem to me they are actually adding this into their "process of salvation" but it needs more clarification about how many of them would say that. This difficult and convoluted subject is definitely (stress definitely) not to be added into the simplicity of the "Jesus Saves Gospel" though it occurs between the death and resurrection periods.
In the Protestant Faith there are references to this, but several entirely different interpretations about what "he descended into Hell" means. It includes sometimes the concept that Christ supposedly preached the gospel (before it was even completed) to those who died in the time of Noah, as if it was a "second chance for salvation".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrowing_of_Hell (salvation )
Notably on the topic it is believed by many Protestants Jesus did not preach in Hell to those who died at the time of Noah, but, rather, that Jesus anointed Noah to preach at the time the Ark was being prepared.
65) 40 Day "Churching" of a baby - a mother is forced (via tradition) into bringing her child to church on the 40th Day after birth, to force the baby into attending their bogus religious services. in a warping of now "done away" law such as Luke 2:22-40 . This is connected with the indoctrination process described in Revelation 17. ( indoctrination ) ( salvation )
66) Economy, Economia - discretionary deviation from the letter of the law in order to adhere to the spirit of the law. Only bishops have such discretion,
It is an exceptionally, staggeringly serious doctrinal issue as the concept is used for instance:
1) to justify remarriage against the criteria of Matthew 5:32.
2) It may be used on the occasion of a conversion to Orthodoxy, in order to grant recognition to a baptism previously administered in a so called heterodox or schismatic church.
3) It may also be used to grant recognition to an ordination administered in a Roman Catholic or Anglican church if the convert comes from either of those communions.
A priestly form of this is in fact the basis of many controversial priest's decisions.
( doctrine ) ( sin )
67) Symphonia heresy - what this means in real terms. is that the church sees it as practical to compromise with the state in order to survive. Two modern examples of this are that huge numbers of Orthodox bishops compromise with the state (and police force) on the issues of homosexuality and evolutionism, and the so called hierarchy of Orthodoxy, including the Titular Head, turn a blind eye to this. (note - Catholic theologians hypothesise that this is how Orthodoxy was defiled by adulterous second marriage doctrines and practices)
( doctrine ) ( sin )
68) Many modern Orthodox consider the Pope "a bishop". Sorry but if it was not such a serious issue that would be a joke. The Pope is entirely an heretic.
( people ) ( salvation - suddenly not only Orthodoxy saves )
69) Graded churches -
In real terms the Orthodox Church splits churches into about 10 kind, with various attitudes to where the word "church" should be replaced by cult or sect, when in reality they are entirely a cult in themselves.
1) Grade A quality - Patriarchal Church (eg Constantinople)
2) Grade B quality - Autocephalous Church (Gr. "appointing its own leader") (eg Mount Athos) a church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop.
3) Grade C quality - Autonomous Church (Gr. "self-rule"). (eg Finland) governed by its prelate, who is chosen by a superior jurisdiction, usually by a patriarchate.
It appears to me both types of churches often claim to be self governed, but as autocephalous churches appoint their own head, and autonomous do not, the true higher ranking church would be logically autocephalous, within the perimeters of their own unbiblical extraneous criteria?
4) Grade D quality - Eparchy Churches non self-governing (eg. Philippines)
5) Grade E quality - Unrecognized Churches (eg Orthodox Church in America)
6) Grade F quality - Schismatic churches - (eg. Roman Catholic - to some)
7) Grade G quality - Schismatic isolationist churches -
8) Grade H quality - Heretic churches - (eg Roman Catholic - to others)
9) Grade I quality - Heretic isolationist churches -
10) Grade J quality - Lunatic fringe Orthodox cults . ( church )
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Some of the sins shared between the Orthodox and the Catholics:
71) Heathen Calendars are part of the Faith (worse than Catholics on this):
( doctrine ) ( sin )
72)
73) A Personal relationship Mary and saints ......with skeletons (dead unresurrected "people") spiritism. ( idolatry ) ( sin ) ( spiritism )
74) They kept the bible from the people for over 1,000 years - even after the Reformation presses started rolling, the Orthodox like the Catholics never gave bibles to the people in order to indoctrinate them instead. ( bible )
75) Idolizing or worshipping of the Nicene Creed : The creed is not fit for purpose, as it does not contain a specific gospel by which we are saved (however a "process of salvation" involving works and priestcraft is not present either - whereas the elements of the Protestant gospel are mentioned). ( idolatry ) ( sin )
76) Icons, statues and other idols . ( idolatry ) ( sin )
77) Shrines ( a separate issue proving their connection to eastern religions - thus Eastern Orthodoxy in their name) . ( idolatry ) ( sin )
78) That heresy is to contradict their fake church and man made traditions, not the bible and new covenant law . ( church ) ( sin ) ( bible ) ( doctrine )
79) Holy Orders - the issue of sacraments. ( sacraments ) ( doctrine )
80) Call no man father . ( people ) ( idolatry ) ( sin
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Churchianity errors :
81)
82) Calendarization of lifestyle by a plethora of "days".
( church ) ( worship ) ( churchianity ) ( sin )
83) Uniforms, crowns, mitres . one answer I was given by an Orthodox believer is that you can buy these crowns second hand on Ebay, and that they are only moderately expensive, and sometimes amount to only "bling" golden artifacts and crowns, not always real gold, only sometimes. I am not sure how the Orthodoxy faithful would react if they knew "the holy artifacts" are in fact often a chintzy show of tacky cheap imitations. ( churchianity ) ( authority ) ( sin )
84) Ritual / rite ridden . ( idolatry ) ( salvation ) ( churchianity ) ( sin )
( sorcery ) . (separate issue to Traditions - but part of it)
85) Fasting before men : So much fasting they are borderline vegan for about half the year! This really does fit in with the commandment not to say "Touch not! Taste not!" . Fast Wednesday and Friday just about all year, so they can disobey Christs commandment to fast in secret. ( churchianity ) ( hypocrisy )
86) Extraneous baptismal requirements / doctrines : (must believe heresy, and an avalanche of more insignificant doctrines "what doth now prevent me?") eg harrowing of hell and deny filioque . ( doctrine ) ( salvation )
87) Godparent indoctrinators . The parents are assigned the duty of indoctrinating their children, but so called "godparents" (found nowhere in scripture) are people assigned the same sinful task. This perhaps also serves as a way to fish outsiders into Orthodoxy by using babies and children to inveigle them into learning Orthodox doctrine. ( indoctrination ) ( people ) ( salvation )
88) Baby exorcisms - it is jaw dropping that anyone baptized into Orthodoxy goes through a plethora of rites amounting to witchcraft ceremonies, including casting Satan out of babies and children. Adult exorcism - where they will even stand on top of people "crushing satan under their feet" like something out the middle ages.
( abuse ) ( salvation - part of baptism and chrismation ceremony )
89) False new identity . when triple baptized into Orthodoxy the person is given a new name, and is given a personal patron saint, so they can calendarize your life on a personal level. A name day is the day on which an Orthodox Christian celebrates the feast of his patron saint. ( indoctrination ) ( sin )
90) Holy water power - the Orthodox believe so called holy water has powers to spiritually clean people and places, and cast out demons. They even do it to their own churches before a person is baptized to increase the impression of their bogus priestly powers. ( ritualism ) ( churchianity ) ( sin - fakery ) ( sorcery )
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TOP 100.
(being reorganized into salvation errors area - a more important topic)
Prayer heresies x10.
91) Praying for the dead . ( sorcery ) ( spiritism ) ( salvation )
92) The dead can pray for you ! ( spiritism ) ( salvation )
93) Praying to the dead . ( sorcery ) ( spiritism ) ( salvation )
94) Vain repetitions in prayer . the primary example is The Jesus Prayer,
( prayer ) ( meditation )
95) The Cycle of Prayer . ( prayer ) ( churchianity )
96) Mary as Co-Mediator, Co-Redemptrix, hears/answers millions .
( idolatry ) ( salvation )
97) Prayer Books - automated, manmade, pseudo Christian, systematized tomes of wayward religion. ( churchianity ) ( prayer ) ( salvation )
98) Hesychasm - the equivalent of Buddhist meditation. interesting also the Buddhist idea of becoming "at one" has similarities to theosis. ( spiritism ) ( meditation )
( salvation )
99) The prayer rope - the Orthodox answer to the rosary. ( prayer ) ( salvation )
100) Aerial Toll House prayers - to help dead souls be delivered from demonic attack, in the 40 decision period as to whether you go to "Abraham's Bosom" or torment part of "Hades", these prayers are connected to the 8 Day and the 40 Day memorial services. ( spiritism ) ( prayer ) ( salvation )
**) Men praying with head covered? = long hair breaks this (priest and monks have long hair to imitate gurus and bring "eastern" peoples into the faith, but the new covenant law forbids long hair, calling it a "shame"
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More prayer heresies.
101) All saints day - (spiritism) The Eastern Orthodox Church and associated Eastern Catholic Churches and Byzantine Lutheran Churches celebrate it on the first Sunday after Pentecost. ( sorcery ) ( spiritism ) ( salvation )
( churchianity )
102) The Communion of Saints . ( sorcery ) ( spiritism ) ( salvation )
( churchianity )
103) The Repose of souls of the dead ? (Memorial.) ( sorcery ) ( spiritism )
( salvation ) ( churchianity )
104) Priests, Bishops and monks having long hair - this is also technically a prayer error (head covering issues), but is an example of a sin that is not "a work of the flesh" that is to which damnation is promised. Priest and monks have long hair to imitate gurus and bring "eastern" peoples into the faith, but the new covenant law forbids long hair on men, calling it a "shame". Having long hair is not a work of the flesh, but the church strategy to imitate gurus to spiritually seduce Eastern converts into their religion is. Their hair is tied back to stop them looking like the vain creatures they really are.
105) They are wizards/witches performing witchcraft. ( sorcery ) ( spiritism )
Top 3 witches in the world according to Orthodoxy? :
( sorcery ) ( spiritism ) ( salvation ) ( churchianity )
1) Number 1 Witch (top witch / wizard:) - Dimitrios Arhondonis
fake name - Bartholomew 1
title: Titular Head of Eastern Orthodoxy, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and Archbishop of Constantinople . primus inter pares (first among equals) called Head of the Eastern Orthodox Church (or Head of the Church - as they claim to be the only church).
2) Number 2 Witch - Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev
fake name - Kirill
title: Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, the Bishop of Moscow, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
3) Number 3 Witch - Jorge Mario Bergoglio
fake name: Pope Francis
title:- His Holiness, Francis, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, Servant of the servants of God. called "Head of the Church" by Catholics.(pretender to being Head of the Church, according to Orthodoxy)
note: huge numbers of the Orthodox now see the Pope as a bishop, so he is one of the top witches / wizards because of the sheer numbers he lords it over and deceives.
106) Deliberately Clouding "The Weightier matters of the Law" - there is such a thing as "the law of the new covenant' (Gal 6:2) in opposition to the old (done away) Law of Moses. The new law has its centerpiece the "Two Commandments" and the old law had for its centerpiece the 10 Commandments. To hide their heresy the Pharisees of the Eastern Orthodox Church deliberately cloud the issue of what the weightier matters of the Law are, more minor issues like the position of the hand in the bogus sign of the cross, and The Filioque are relatively minor in comparison to adulterous remarriage, war (murder) and adding works to actual salvation as a root not a fruit. One should still teach "the least of these commandments" (Matthew 5:19) but they are not on the same level as "the fruit of the Spirit" (positive) or "the works of the flesh" (negative).
note: this heresy is inextricably linked to the heresy of denying the existence of "the works of the flesh" from more minor issues like eating black pudding, men with long hair, etc, but is distinctly a diverse heresy of subterfuge in itself.
( doctrine ) ( conceptual )
107) Spiritual Whoredom - calling the mass bread "God" and bowing to it is idolatry, idolatry with icons, shrines. Theosis etc. ( idolatry ) ( sacerdotalism)
108) Two gospels save. - Evangelicals do not say two gospels save, but the Orthodox do not have the courage to stick properly to their emphatic statement "salvation is found only in Orthodoxy" they then tell everyone they don't want to judge as to whether other people are saved or not. It is yet another oxymoron of theirs. The bible says there is only ONE salvation gospel, and anyone teaching another is anathema, under God's curse! The Orthodox synergy of salvation or process of salvation isn't it.
109) Council of Ephesus 430 Canon 6 decreed deposition from clerical office or excommunication for those who did not accept the Council's decrees.
110) Massive numbers of Traditions - ( forgery )
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various (authority issues).
111) Orthodoxy is the most oxymoronic faith in the world - I intend to complete a long list of dozens of their oxymoronic doctrines, including that they are pacifist killers, and believe in salvation by grace and works etc. ( doctrine )
112) Heresy of swearing oaths . ( doctrine ) ( sin )
113) Ruled over by Pharisees . ( people )
114) The Forgery of History - forgery includes liturgies, traditional stories of peoples lives, historians making things up, : ( forgery )
115) Incense thuribles - (giddy) ( churchianity ) ( sorcery ) ( sorcery item )
116) Fake miracles - holy fire is just one, myrrh dripping icons etc. Only a gullible person who passes of credulity for faith would believe in them.
( forgery / fakery / sorcery ) ( sin ) ( fraud )
117) Bogus hierarchy / pyramid system : - ( churchianity ) ( people )
118) Orthodox false prophets (as well as teachers) - ( people ) ( bible )
( Pentecostalism )
119) Ecumenicalism - (division over this) The moment millions of the Orthodox turned to being Ecumenical, the moment they accepted another "process of salvation saves". in other words they have two gospels, and if all the Popes were not "anathema" before that as they declared, their profession their church is infallible failed. ( salvation )
( people ) ( church )
120) Their version of the Talmud = the giant tomes of irrelevant dumb writings by a plethora of pillarists, hermits, bogus saints and the like, whose unimportant writings they exalt to being on a par with holy writ, including such as prayer books. ( bible ) ( forgery / fakery)
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Refuting the heresies of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
29) Schisms
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(new plan here..... I think it is best to mark, then group together groups that people in Orthodoxy left to join, and concentrate here on the huge number of actual Orthodox cults and sects, and group the other more Protestant type churches in a separate list)
Schisms - an overview.
as you will see from the long list of divisions and schisms below, the claims of the Orthodox Church that they are one big united church back to Jesus that does not have the disagreements of Protestantism is entirely false.
In fact the Orthodox have hundreds of disagreements among each other over doctrine, it is just that they have an excuse why that "is not counted" and it is that they are not as dogmatic or specific about doctrine in the same way Catholics and Protestants are, they use the word "theologoumenon" to explain this. That really is a pathetic excuse. They have hundreds of divisions among them too. If they have "one church" so do Protestants who define the One True Church as "all the born again believers".
new - Schisms over the heresy Universalism! called by them Apokatastasis . Naturally as they get the definition of Hell wrong they would be prone to this heresy as well!
1) The Nicolaitan Apostasy. (meaning "higher than the laity" the Catholic and Orthodox churches are rooted in this heresy, which Jesus said he hated!)
1) Schisms over the canon of scripture - were most Catholics and Orthodox accept the anagignoskomena or deuterocanon, (including "Bel and the Dragon" that proves their canon is a fake) there is however a division in their churches over accepting:
1) Psalms of Solomon,
2) 3 Maccabees,
3) 4 Maccabees,
4) the Epistle of Jeremiah,
5) the Book of Odes,
6) the Prayer of Manasseh
7) Psalm 151
which are found in some copies of the LXX (the proveably corrupted Greek {weird} text they use to translate the Old Testament from. Some Orthodox may also denounce the shortening of the Book of Jeremiah found in the LXX (? - or am I over optimistic of their integrity?)
**) 144 - Marcionism (some link to later Catharism)
**) 200 - Novatians
300) Donatists - Donatus Magnus, also known as Donatus of Casae Nigrae, became leader of a Christian sect known as the Donatists . Pentecostal in beliefs?
2) The Scarlet and Purple Apostasy.
**) The Circumcellions or Agonistici - were bands of Berber Christian extremists in North Africa in the early to mid-4th century.
379? Priscillianist . violently persecuted.
3) 431 - Ephesus
**) Council Schisms - if you research the full list or history of "Holy Apostolic Church Councils" listed on this website, you will see many of them are branded as either heretical or even Anathema councils! It just goes to show the huge number of Emperors and bishops and teachers in their own church that have had different doctrines. This "one church with one set of doctrines" spin by Orthodoxy is nonsense, they had massive numbers of divisions just like Protestants.
4) 428-431 - Nestorianism - is error in Orthodoxy, but, it came from patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius (428–31), and thus is a schism in their church, however some blame instead Cyril of Alexandria who is said to have been a jealous crank and slandered Nestorius. Christotokos some would argue is the general Protestant interpretation (??), but one must be careful, as the subject is peppered with pedantic nuances, and is related to the subject of whether Christ had two natures.
5) 451 - Chalcedonian Schism - link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon
6) 484 - 519 - Acacian Schism : between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches lasted 35 years, from 484 to 519.[1] It resulted from a drift in the leaders of Eastern Christianity toward Miaphysitism and Emperor Zeno's unsuccessful attempt to reconcile the parties with the Henotikon. [2] [3] [4]
**) 650 - 872 - Paulicians - persecuted by Emperor Alexios
??) Bogomilism -
7) 726 - 787 - The first Iconoclast Schism.
8) 794 - The Carolingian Council of Frankfurt - feared that the “Eastern” Council of Nicaea II had sanctioned the veneration of images beyond due limits. The gravest matter, however, concerned the insertion of the word Filioque into the Nicene-Constantinoplitan creed. The word was introduced—probably as an anti-Arian move—by the regional Council of Toledo in 589 and later spread throughout the Frankish empire; Rome adopted it only in 1014
9) 814 and 842 - The Second Iconoclast Schism -.
10) 1054 - The Great Schism of 1054 AD. The excommunications, which effectively divided the East and the West, were “erased from memory and the midst of the Church” by Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople in 1965, but their two churches are not yet in ecclesiastical communion.
**) Cathars or Albigensians - and are now mainly remembered for a prolonged period of persecution by the Catholic Church, which did not recognise their belief as being Christian. Catharism appeared in Europe in the Languedoc region of France in the 11th century and this is when the name first appears.
11) 1170 - Waldensians (Peter Waldo) . a puritan type (??) religious sect based originally in southern France, now chiefly in Italy and America, founded c.1170 by Peter Valdes (d.1205), a merchant of Lyons.
1184 - Arnoldists condemned -by Pope Lucius III Synod of Verona in .[3]
12) 1184 (?) - Joachim Of Fiore developed a philosophy of history according to which history develops in three ages of increasing spirituality: the ages of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
13) Lollards - a follower of John Wycliff (1320s – 31 December 1384). The Lollards believed that the Church should help people to live a life of evangelical poverty and imitate Christ. Their ideas influenced the thought of John Huss, who in turn influenced Martin Luther.
**) 1378 to 1417 - The Western Schism : was a split within the Catholic Church lasting from 1378 to 1417 [1] in which two, by 1410 three, men simultaneously claimed to be the true pope, each excommunicated one another. Driven by politics rather than any theological disagreement, the schism was ended by the Council of Constance (1414–1418). For a time these rival claims to the papal throne damaged the reputation of the office.
13) 1400 - Hussites, followers of the Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus, who was condemned by the Council of Constance (1414–18)
**) 1415 Jan Hus executed - Hussites (they fought wars) modern Moravians.
14) 1517 (??) - The Reformation - Whether positively or negatively, some have interpreted the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century as the last of the medieval reform movements.
(the Reformation) a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Church ending in the establishment of the Protestant Churches and so called Reformed Churches (Calvinist).
The roots of the Reformation go back to the 14th-century attacks on the wealth and hierarchy of the Church made by groups such as the Lollards and the Hussites. But the Reformation is usually thought of as beginning in 1517 when Martin Luther issued ninety-five theses criticizing Church doctrine and practice. In Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Saxony, Hesse, and Brandenburg, supporters broke away and established Protestant Churches, while in Switzerland a separate movement was led by Zwingli and later Calvin.
20th Century Schisms -
1) Ordination of women
2) Ecumenicalism & World Council of Churches
3) Homosexual clergy
etc
*) 1652+ - Old Believers: or Old Ritualists 1652+ - (Russian: старове́ры or старообря́дцы, starovéry or staroobryádtsy) are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Eastern Orthodox Church as they existed prior to the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666. After 1685, a period of persecutions began, including both torture and executions.
a) The Popovtsy ("priested ones") or Popovschina were from the 17th century one of the two main factions of Old Believers,
b) The Bezpopovtsy ("priestless ones").
The Great "Aerial Toll House" division: - Orthodoxy is behind the scenes split in two over the belief in Toll Houses, places on the way to either "Abraham's Bosom" or "the Pit of Hades". This is of super-massive doctrinal importance and is no small issue.
Thousands of sects - the Orthodox church in fact has thousands of subdivisions who believe a core centre of beliefs (ironically mostly false, and very often frivolous), but are free to believe what they want on many issues from "do you believe in ghosts?" to capital punishment. You can be pronounced anathema by them over relatively minor issues, and believe what you want on more serious issues. Then they condemn Protestants who openly declare their differing beliefs, yet like the Orthodox there is a core centre shared theology 100 times more accurate than that of Orthodoxy, and Protestants do believe in one church - those who are truly born again.
Heresy trials - one of the things the Catholics hide in their archives, and the Orthodox do not feel disposed to share either, is the massive number of heresy trials of individuals, that might unveil schisms among whole groups.
For instance - Maximus the Confessor (580-662 AD) was put on trial for heresy, found guilty, and they then chopped off his hand and cut out his tongue as a punishment. Then later on (this is even more amazing) they decided it was him who was right and the people who put him on trial that were wrong about the doctrine! Amazing for a church that claims it is "infallible" tortured and mutilated a man for being Dyothelite, then decided it was them who had been wrong.
5) The Uniate Schism. early modern period. - a modern attempt at universal union between Catholics and the Orthodox, but this was attempted also and failed at the Second Council of Lyons (1274) and the Council of Florence (1439–1442), The very term "uniate" ironically has an element of protest and negativity in the title from the perspective of those opposing it, and people putting a stronger ecumenical positive spin instead term the churches Catholics of the Byzantine Rite, Eastern Rite Catholics, Greek Catholics, Melkite Catholics and many other names.
The ROCOR Post-Reconciliation Schism:
was (and is) a schism, after a schism, that was based on the Russian church not recognizing and dealing with the effects of KGB infiltration into their bishops, and the subsequent invalid granting of autocephalous status to the OCA that is American Orthodox Church.
8) The Serganian Schism. 1927+ (Sycophancy to the State, even when "the state" is not religious or so called theocratic.)
9) The Old Calendarist Schism of the 1920's.
a) The Florinites (the largest group) ,
b) The Cyprianites of the Synod in Resistance,
c) The Matthewites.
11) The Patriarch of Antioch Schism.
13) Western Rite versus Eastern Rite.
14) Rascol of the Russian Orthodox Church (mid 17th Century). -
16) More than one Titular Head.
17) The Photian Schism:
18) The Schism over Hesychasm (and link to Buddhist meditation).
19) Division over icons (idols) of God the Father, and also the Holy Spirit with some Orthodox.
20) Schism over Ukrainian autocephaly. recent -
20) That the Pope is a bishop )Orthodoxy utterly split over this).
1964 Recognition of the Catholic Church - Orthodox divisions over the unity/equality/recognition and other subjects began in 1964 by Pope Paul VI, John Paul II took it a step further, then further again by former Nazi, Pope Benedict XVI, then further by the present (fake) Pope Francis.
Moscow is the 3d Rome 1453 - Muslims capture Constantinople. Many Orthodox flee to Russia, some Orthodox then say (and some still do) "Moscow is the 3d Rome" (a doctrinal difference in Orthodoxy - as many would deny this.)
THE MODERN SCHISM OVER SALVATION:
**) The True Russian Orthodox Church - was a doomsday cult founded by Pyotr Kuznetsov.
**) Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop, known by his followers as Vissarion ("He who gives new life"), is a Russian false messiah. His religion combines elements of the Russian Orthodox Church with Buddhism, apocalypticism, collectivism, and ecological values. His followers observe strict regulations, are vegetarians,[3] and are allowed no vices such as smoking or drinking alcohol, and money is banned.[4][5] The aim of the group is to unite all religions on Earth.
22) Khlysts or Khlysty : (external link) (Rasputin involved?).
23) Bezpopovtsy (external link)
24) Raskolniks. (external link)
25) "folk Protestants" or Spiritual Christians.
26) "Molokan" is often confused with the similar sounding malakan, Molokane (dairy-eaters) — founded ~1765
27) Pryguny (jumpers) —
28) Dukh-i-zhizniki (Spirit-and-lifers)
29) Doukhobours . (pacifists)
30) Skoptsy . (practicing castration of men and the mastectomy )
31) Ikonobortsy (Icon-fighters, "Iconoclasts" and Zhidovstvuyushchiye (Жидовствующие: Judaizers) .
33) Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Russia .
34) Reformed Orthodoxy .
35) Kartanoism .
**) Sybirak . (issues of those exiled to Siberia, Russian Arctic or to Kazakhstan : not just Poles, for religious reasons..... research .
Possible Evangelicalism???
Split over evolutionism recent :
Split over LGBT rights recent :
quote
Archbishop Lazar is a rabid supporter of evolutionary theory and LGBT agenda
36) recent Ukrainian Orthodox Church splits from Russia recent :
it then further divides as there are two forms of the Ukrainian Orthodox church
1) The Moscow Patriarchate, aligned with the Russian Orthodox Church, sees itself as the only legitimate church in Ukraine. On Dec. 20, Ukrainian MPs passed a law that could force the church to add "Russian" to its name.
2) The Kiev Patriarchate rival was born after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its popularity has grown since 2014. It favours European integration and championed the independent church but the Moscow Patriarchate denounces it as schismatic.
, Titular Head signs "autocephalous" papers
https://www.thetrumpet.com/17806-ukraine-on-verge-of-orthodox-jihad
37) The Celtic Orthodox Church - I need to research this, but I think they claim the standard orthodox Church is a satanic counterfeit, but this celtic church is supposedly real?
link:
http://www.celticorthodoxchurch.com/faq.html
38) French Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of the Gauls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_the_Gauls
Aristotelian orthodoxy -
hierocrats and the conciliarist ( ?? )
Church of the East (Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ Ēdṯāʾ d-Maḏenḥā), also known as the Nestorian Church and the Persian Church, was an Eastern Christian denomination that in 410 organised itself within the Sasanian Empire and in 424 declared its leader independent of other Christian leaders. From the Persian Empire it spread to other parts of Asia in late antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Assyrian Church of the East: is an Eastern Christian Church that follows the traditional christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East.[4] It belongs to the eastern branch of Syriac Christianity, and uses the Divine Liturgy of Saints Mar Addai and Mar Mari belonging to the East Syrian Rite liturgy. Its main spoken language is Syriac, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic, and the majority of its adherents are ethnic Assyrians.
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Though these are the subdivisions of the Easter Orthodox Church, their very divided structure further emphatically shows the Orthodox claim they are just one big church together is false, and they are talking their way around the fact just as Protestant recognize one church as "all the born again believers", but have open and honest divisions, Eastern Orthodox keep simply deceiving people that they do not have similar divisions. Even in each single church people often have different beliefs,
OLD PATRIARCHATES :
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and First Among Equals Patriarch)
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy (His Eminence Orthodox Archbishop of Italy and Malta)
Autonomous Orthodox Church of Finland (Archbishop of Helsinki and All Finland, formerly Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland)
Self-governing Orthodox Church of Crete (Archbishop of Crete)
Self-governing Monastic Community of Mount Athos
Self-governing Orthodox Church of Korea (Metropolitan of Seoul and All Korea)
Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
Eparchy of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Eparchy of the Exarchate of the Philippines
Eparchy of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese
Patriarchate of Alexandria (His Most Divine Beatitude the Pope and Patriarch of the Great City of Alexandria, Libya, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, all the land of Egypt, and all Africa, Father of Fathers, Shepherd of Shepherds, Prelate of Prelates, Thirteenth of the Apostles, and Judge of the Œcumene)
Patriarchate of Antioch (Patriarch of Antioch and all the East)
Self-governing Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America)
Self-governing Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania (Metropolitan Archbishop of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines)
Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Holy Land, Syria, Arabia, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee, and Sacred Zion)
Autonomous Church of Mount Sinai (Archbishop of Choreb, Sinai, and Raitha)
NEW PATRIARCHATES .
Russian Orthodox Church (Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia)
Autonomous Orthodox Church in Japan (Archbishop of Tokyo and Metropolitan of All Japan)
Exarchate of Belarus (Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus)
Self-governing Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian church abroad)
Self-governing Orthodox Church of Moldova (Metropolitan of Chişinău and all Moldova)
Self-governing Orthodox Church of Latvia (Metropolitan of Riga and all Latvia)
What is really happening here is that there is in effect (in my personal opinion) a new Patriarchate of Moscow that has been added to the ancient church, but it is not emphasised by Orthodoxy.
Serbian Orthodox Church (Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch)
Autonomous Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric (Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje)
Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Metropolitan of Sofia and Patriarch of All Bulgaria
Romanian Orthodox Church (Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobrudja, Locum Tenens of the Throne of Caesarea of Cappadocia, and Patriarch of Romania)
Georgian Orthodox Church (Catholicos- Patriarch of All Georgia, the Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and Metropolitan bishop of Abkhazia and Pitsunda)
FULL RECOGNIZED (but without Patriarchs?) :
Church of Cyprus (Archbishop of New Justiniana and all Cyprus)
Church of Greece (Archbishop of Athens and all Greece)
Orthodox Church of Albania (Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania)
Orthodox Church Poland (Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland or Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland)[e]
Orthodox Church of the Czech lands and Slovakia (Archbishop of Prague, the Metropolitan of Czech lands and Slovakia or the Archbishop of Presov, the Metropolitan of Czech lands and Slovakia)
Unrecognized / Partly Recognized / churches .
Within the main body of Eastern Orthodoxy there are unresolved internal issues as to the autonomous or autocephalous status and/or legitimacy of the following Orthodox churches, particularly between those stemming from the Russian Orthodox or Constantinopolitan churches:
Orthodox Church in America (Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada) – Not recognised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Metropolis of Bessarabia of the Romanian Orthodox Church Self-governing – Territory is claimed by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (Metropolitan of Tallinn and all Estonia) Self-governing – Recognised only by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, opposed only by the Russian Orthodox Church
Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (Metropolitan of Tallinn and all Estonia) Self-governing – Not recognised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine) Self-governing – Not recognised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate only, as of October 2018.
Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine) – Recognised only by the Ecumenical Patriarchate as of January 2019, opposed by the Russian, Serbian, and Polish Orthodox Churches.
True Orthodoxy..
True Orthodox separated from the mainstream communion over issues of ecumenism and calendar reform since the 1920s. .[211]
True Orthodox churches:
Churches descending from the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
Greek Old Calendarists
Old Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Old Calendar Romanian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church
Serbian True Orthodox Church
Old Believers.
Old Believers are groups that do not accept liturgical reforms carried out in the Russian Orthodox Church by Patriarch Nikon in the 17th century.
Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church (Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy)
Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church (Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy)
Russian Old-Orthodox Church (Novozybkovskaya Hierarchy)
Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church (Pomortsy)
Fedoseevtsy
Churches not in communion with others.
Churches with irregular or unresolved canonical status are entities that have carried out episcopal consecrations outside of the norms of canon law or whose bishops have been excommunicated by one of the 14 autocephalous churches. These include nationalist and other schismatic bodies such as the Abkhazian Orthodox Church, Evangelical Orthodox Church, and Russian True Orthodox Church.
Abkhazian Orthodox Church
Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
Communion of the Western Orthodox Churches
Evangelical Orthodox Church
Holy Orthodox Church in North America, in communion with Greek Old Calendarists
Indonesia Orthodox Church
Lusitanian Orthodox Church
Macedonian Orthodox Church
Montenegrin Orthodox Church
Russian True Orthodox Church
Turkish Orthodox Church
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Canonical
Eastern Catholic .
The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches, and in some historical cases Uniate Churches,[a] are twenty-three Eastern Christian autonomous (in Latin, sui iuris) particular churches in full communion with the Pope in Rome, as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. They are united with one another and with the Latin or Roman Church (also known as the Western Church). In particular, they recognize the central role of the Bishop of Rome within the College of Bishops and his infallibility when speaking ex cathedra.
others........
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TOP 100 Schisms
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1) The Nicolaitan Apostasy. (meaning "higher than the laity" the Catholic and Orthodox churches are rooted in this heresy, which Jesus said he hated!)
2) 144 - Marcionism . (some link to later Catharism)
3) 200 - Novatians .
4) 300 - Donatists . - Donatus Magnus, also known as Donatus of Casae Nigrae, became leader of a Christian sect known as the Donatists . Pentecostal in beliefs?
5) The Scarlet and Purple Apostasy. . Constantine blends secular (purple) and religious (scarlet) power together.
6) mid-4th century. The Circumcellions or Agonistici - were bands of Berber Christian extremists in North Africa in the early to mid-4th century.
7) 431 - Ephesus .
8) Council Schisms - if you research the full list or history of "Holy Apostolic Church Councils" listed on this website, you will see many of them are branded as either heretical or even Anathema councils! It just goes to show the huge number of Emperors and bishops and teachers in their own church that have had different doctrines. This "one church with one set of doctrines" spin by Orthodoxy is nonsense, they had massive numbers of divisions just like Protestants.
9) 428-431 - Nestorianism - is error in Orthodoxy, but, it came from patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius (428–31), and thus is a schism in their church, however some blame instead Cyril of Alexandria who is said to have been a jealous crank and slandered Nestorius. Christotokos some would argue is the general Protestant interpretation (??), but one must be careful, as the subject is peppered with pedantic nuances, and is related to the subject of whether Christ had two natures.
10) 451 - Chalcedonian Schism -link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon
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11) 484 - 519 - Acacian Schism : between the Eastern and Western Christian Churches lasted 35 years, from 484 to 519.[1] It resulted from a drift in the leaders of Eastern Christianity toward Miaphysitism and Emperor Zeno's unsuccessful attempt to reconcile the parties with the Henotikon. [2] [3] [4]
12) 650 - 872 - Paulicians -
- persecuted by Emperor Alexios
**) ??) Bogomilism -
13) 726- 787 - The first Iconoclast Schism. .
14) 794 - The Carolingian Council of Frankfurt - feared that the “Eastern” Council of Nicaea II had sanctioned the veneration of images beyond due limits. The gravest matter, however, concerned the insertion of the word Filioque into the Nicene-Constantinoplitan creed. The word was introduced—probably as an anti-Arian move—by the regional Council of Toledo in 589 and later spread throughout the Frankish empire; Rome adopted it only in 1014
15) 814 and 842 - The Second Iconoclast Schism . (seems like 2nd and 3rd to me)
16) 1054 - The Great Schism of 1054 AD. . The excommunications, which effectively divided the East and the West, were “erased from memory and the midst of the Church” by Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople in 1965, but their two churches are not yet in ecclesiastical communion.
17) Cathars or Albigensians - and are now mainly remembered for a prolonged period of persecution by the Catholic Church, which did not recognise their belief as being Christian. Catharism appeared in Europe in the Languedoc region of France in the 11th century and this is when the name first appears.
18) 1170 - Waldensians (Peter Waldo) . a puritan type (??) religious sect based originally in southern France, now chiefly in Italy and America, founded c.1170 by Peter Valdes (d.1205), a merchant of Lyons.
19) 1184 (?) - Joachim Of Fiore developed a philosophy of history according to which history develops in three ages of increasing spirituality: the ages of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
20) Lollards - a follower of John Wycliff (1320s – 31 December 1384). The Lollards believed that the Church should help people to live a life of evangelical poverty and imitate Christ. Their ideas influenced the thought of John Huss, who in turn influenced Martin Luther.
21) 1378 to 1417 - The Western Schism : was a split within the Catholic Church lasting from 1378 to 1417 [1] in which two, by 1410 three, men simultaneously claimed to be the true pope, each excommunicated one another. Driven by politics rather than any theological disagreement, the schism was ended by the Council of Constance (1414–1418). For a time these rival claims to the papal throne damaged the reputation of the office.
22) 1400 - The Hussites , followers of the Bohemian religious reformer Jan Hus, who was condemned by the Council of Constance (1414–18)
23) 1415 - The Hussite Wars - after Jan Hus executed - modern are called Moravians.
24) 1517 (??) - The Reformation - Whether positively or negatively, some have interpreted the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century as the last of the medieval reform movements.
(the Reformation) a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Church ending in the establishment of the Protestant Churches and so called Reformed Churches (Calvinist).
The roots of the Reformation go back to the 14th-century attacks on the wealth and hierarchy of the Church made by groups such as the Lollards and the Hussites. But the Reformation is usually thought of as beginning in 1517 when Martin Luther issued ninety-five theses criticizing Church doctrine and practice. In Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Saxony, Hesse, and Brandenburg, supporters broke away and established Protestant Churches, while in Switzerland a separate movement was led by Zwingli and later Calvin.
25) 1652+ - Old Believers: or Old Ritualists 1652+ - (Russian: старове́ры or старообря́дцы, starovéry or staroobryádtsy) are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Eastern Orthodox Church as they existed prior to the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666. After 1685, a period of persecutions began, including both torture and executions.
a) The Popovtsy ("priested ones") or Popovschina were from the 17th century one of the two main factions of Old Believers,
b) The Bezpopovtsy ("priestless ones").
26) The Great "Aerial Toll House" division: - Orthodoxy is behind the scenes split in two over the belief in Toll Houses, places on the way to either "Abraham's Bosom" or "the Pit of Hades". This is of super-massive doctrinal importance and is no small issue.
27) Heresy trials - one of the things the Catholics hide in their archives, and the Orthodox do not feel disposed to share either, is the massive number of heresy trials of individuals, that might unveil schisms among whole groups.
For instance - Maximus the Confessor (580-662 AD) was put on trial for heresy, found guilty, and they then chopped off his hand and cut out his tongue as a punishment. Then later on (this is even more amazing) they decided it was him who was right and the people who put him on trial that were wrong about the doctrine! Amazing for a church that claims it is "infallible" tortured and mutilated a man for being Dyothelite, then decided it was them who had been wrong.
28) The Uniate Schism - early modern period. - a modern attempt at universal union between Catholics and the Orthodox, but this was attempted also and failed at the Second Council of Lyons (1274) and the Council of Florence (1439–1442), The very term "uniate" ironically has an element of protest and negativity in the title from the perspective of those opposing it, and people putting a stronger ecumenical positive spin instead term the churches Catholics of the Byzantine Rite, Eastern Rite Catholics, Greek Catholics, Melkite Catholics and many other names.
29) The ROCOR Post-Reconciliation Schism : was (and is) a schism, after a schism !!! that was based on the Russian church not recognizing and dealing with the effects of KGB infiltration into their bishops, and the subsequent invalid granting of autocephalous status to the OCA that is American Orthodox Church.
30) 1927+ - The Serganian Schism . (Sycophancy to the State, even when "the state" is not religious or so called theocratic.) .
31) The Old Calendarist Schism of the 1920's -
a) The Florinites (the largest group) .
b) The Cyprianites of the Synod in Resistance, -
c) The Matthewites ,
32) The Melitian Schism .
33) The Patriarch of Antioch Schism -
35) The Monophysite Schism. - .
36) Western Rite versus Eastern Rite Schism.
37) Rascol of the Russian Orthodox Church . (mid-17th Century)
38) Pentecostal Orthodoxy. .
39) More than one Titular Head Schism -
40) The Photian Schism -
41) The Schism over Hesychasm (and the link to Buddhist meditation according to the more sensible Orthodox believers) -
42) Division over icons (idols) of God the Father, and also the Holy Spirit - with some Orthodox.
43) Schism over Ukrainian autocephaly. recent -
recent - Ukrainian Orthodox Church splits from Russia :
it then further divides as there are two forms of the Ukrainian Orthodox church
1) The Moscow Patriarchate, aligned with the Russian Orthodox Church, sees itself as the only legitimate church in Ukraine. On Dec. 20, Ukrainian MPs passed a law that could force the church to add "Russian" to its name.
2) The Kiev Patriarchate rival was born after the collapse of the Soviet Union and its popularity has grown since 2014. It favours European integration and championed the independent church but the Moscow Patriarchate denounces it as schismatic.
, Titular Head signs "autocephalous" papers
https://www.thetrumpet.com/17806-ukraine-on-verge-of-orthodox-jihad
44) Schism that the Pope is now a bishop - 1964 Recognition of the Catholic Church - Orthodox divisions over the unity/equality/recognition and other subjects began. (Orthodoxy is utterly split down the middle over this).
45) Ordination of women - 20th Century Schism .
46) Ecumenicalism & World Council of Churches - 20th Century Schism .
47) Homosexuality - salvation / clergy - 20th Century Schism.
quote "Archbishop Lazar is a rabid supporter of evolutionary theory and LGBT agenda."
48) 1453 - That Moscow is the 3d Rome = -Muslims capture Constantinople. Many Orthodox flee to Russia, some Orthodox then say (and some still do) "Moscow is the 3d Rome" (a doctrinal difference in Orthodoxy - as many would deny this.)
49) very early - Montanism : it is claimed by some that the Montanists had much in common with Evangelical style Pentecostals.
50) Artotyrite : Augustine says, "The name of the Artotyrites is derived from their sacrificial offering, for they offer bread and cheese. They claim that the first humans made offerings from the products of the earth and of sheep." [1] Thomas Aquinas refers to them (citing Augustine's comments) in his Summa Theologica, Part three, Question 74.[2]
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52) Church of the East - also known as the Nestorian Church and the Persian Church, was an Eastern Christian denomination that in 410 organised itself within the Sasanian Empire and in 424 declared its leader independent of other Christian leaders. From the Persian Empire it spread to other parts of Asia in late antiquity and the Middle Ages.
53) Assyrian Church of the East: is an Eastern Christian Church that follows the traditional christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East.[4] It belongs to the eastern branch of Syriac Christianity, and uses the Divine Liturgy of Saints Mar Addai and Mar Mari belonging to the East Syrian Rite liturgy. Its main spoken language is Syriac, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic, and the majority of its adherents are ethnic Assyrians.
TOP 50 ORTHODOX STYLE SECTS:
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Thousands of sects - the Orthodox church in fact has thousands of subdivisions who believe a core centre of beliefs (ironically mostly false, and very often frivolous), but are free to believe what they want on many issues from "do you believe in ghosts?" to capital punishment. You can be pronounced anathema by them over relatively minor issues, and believe what you want on more serious issues. Then they condemn Protestants who openly declare their differing beliefs, yet like the Orthodox there is a core centre shared theology 100 times more accurate than that of Orthodoxy, and Protestants do believe in one church - those who are truly born again.
1) The True Russian Orthodox Church - was a doomsday cult founded by Pyotr Kuznetsov.
2) The Vissarion Russian False Messiah Sect - Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop, known by his followers as Vissarion ("He who gives new life"), is a Russian false messiah. His religion combines elements of the Russian Orthodox Church with Buddhism, apocalypticism, collectivism, and ecological values. His followers observe strict regulations, are vegetarians,[3] and are allowed no vices such as smoking or drinking alcohol, and money is banned.[4][5] The aim of the group is to unite all religions on Earth.
3) Khlysts or Khlysty : (external link) (Rasputin involved?).
4) Bezpopovtsy (external link)
5) Raskolniks. (external link)
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6) "Folk Protestants" or Spiritual Christians. -
7) "Molokan" is often confused with the similar sounding malakan, Molokane (dairy-eaters) — founded ~1765
8) Pryguny (jumpers) —
9) Dukh-i-zhizniki (Spirit-and-lifers)
10) Doukhobours . (pacifists)
11) Skoptsy . (practicing castration of men and the mastectomy )
12) Ikonobortsy (Icon-fighters, "Iconoclasts"
13) Zhidovstvuyushchiye (Жидовствующие) Judaizers? .
14) Reformed Orthodoxy .
15) Kartanoism .
16) Sybirak . (issues of those exiled to Siberia, Russian Arctic or to Kazakhstan : not just Poles, for religious reasons..... research .
17) The Celtic Orthodox Church - I need to research this, but I think they claim the standard orthodox Church is a satanic counterfeit, but this celtic church is supposedly real?
link:
http://www.celticorthodoxchurch.com/faq.html
18) French Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of the Gauls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_the_Gauls
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14) Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Russia .
hierocrats and the conciliarist ( ?? )
THE MODERN SCHISM OVER SALVATION:
Though these are the subdivisions of the Easter Orthodox Church, their very divided structure further emphatically shows the Orthodox claim they are just one big church together is false, and they are talking their way around the fact just as Protestant recognize one church as "all the born again believers", but have open and honest divisions, Eastern Orthodox keep simply deceiving people that they do not have similar divisions. Even in each single church people often have different beliefs,
OLD PATRIARCHATES :
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Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and First Among Equals Patriarch)
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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy (His Eminence Orthodox Archbishop of Italy and Malta)
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Autonomous Orthodox Church of Finland (Archbishop of Helsinki and All Finland, formerly Archbishop of Karelia and All Finland)
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Self-governing Orthodox Church of Crete (Archbishop of Crete)
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Self-governing Monastic Community of Mount Athos
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Self-governing Orthodox Church of Korea (Metropolitan of Seoul and All Korea)
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Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada
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Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
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Eparchy of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
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Eparchy of the Exarchate of the Philippines
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Eparchy of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese
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Patriarchate of Alexandria (His Most Divine Beatitude the Pope and Patriarch of the Great City of Alexandria, Libya, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, all the land of Egypt, and all Africa, Father of Fathers, Shepherd of Shepherds, Prelate of Prelates, Thirteenth of the Apostles, and Judge of the Œcumene)
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Patriarchate of Antioch (Patriarch of Antioch and all the East)
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Self-governing Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of All North America)
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Self-governing Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand, and All Oceania (Metropolitan Archbishop of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines)
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Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Holy Land, Syria, Arabia, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee, and Sacred Zion)
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Autonomous Church of Mount Sinai (Archbishop of Choreb, Sinai, and Raitha)
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NEW PATRIACHES .
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Russian Orthodox Church (Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia)
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Autonomous Orthodox Church in Japan (Archbishop of Tokyo and Metropolitan of All Japan)
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Exarchate of Belarus (Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus)
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Self-governing Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian church abroad)
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Self-governing Orthodox Church of Moldova (Metropolitan of Chişinău and all Moldova)
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Self-governing Orthodox Church of Latvia (Metropolitan of Riga and all Latvia)
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What is really happening here is that there is in effect (in my personal opinion) a new Patriarchate of Moscow that has been added to the ancient church, but it is not emphasised by Orthodoxy.
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Serbian Orthodox Church (Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch)
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Autonomous Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric (Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje)
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Metropolitan of Sofia and Patriarch of All Bulgaria
Romanian Orthodox Church (Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobrudja, Locum Tenens of the Throne of Caesarea of Cappadocia, and Patriarch of Romania)
Georgian Orthodox Church (Catholicos- Patriarch of All Georgia, the Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and Metropolitan bishop of Abkhazia and Pitsunda)
FULL RECOGNIZED (but without Patriarchs?) :
Church of Cyprus (Archbishop of New Justiniana and all Cyprus)
Church of Greece (Archbishop of Athens and all Greece)
Orthodox Church of Albania (Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania)
Orthodox Church Poland (Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland or Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland)[e]
Orthodox Church of the Czech lands and Slovakia (Archbishop of Prague, the Metropolitan of Czech lands and Slovakia or the Archbishop of Presov, the Metropolitan of Czech lands and Slovakia)
Unrecognized / Partly Recognized / churches .
Within the main body of Eastern Orthodoxy there are unresolved internal issues as to the autonomous or autocephalous status and/or legitimacy of the following Orthodox churches, particularly between those stemming from the Russian Orthodox or Constantinopolitan churches:
Orthodox Church in America (Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada) – Not recognised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Metropolis of Bessarabia of the Romanian Orthodox Church Self-governing – Territory is claimed by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (Metropolitan of Tallinn and all Estonia) Self-governing – Recognised only by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, opposed only by the Russian Orthodox Church
Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (Metropolitan of Tallinn and all Estonia) Self-governing – Not recognised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine) Self-governing – Not recognised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate only, as of October 2018.
Orthodox Church of Ukraine (Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine) – Recognised only by the Ecumenical Patriarchate as of January 2019, opposed by the Russian, Serbian, and Polish Orthodox Churches.
True Orthodoxy..
True Orthodox separated from the mainstream communion over issues of ecumenism and calendar reform since the 1920s. .[211]
True Orthodox churches:
Churches descending from the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
Old Calendar Bulgarian Orthodox Church
Old Calendar Romanian Orthodox Church
Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church
Old Believers.
Old Believers are groups that do not accept liturgical reforms carried out in the Russian Orthodox Church by Patriarch Nikon in the 17th century.
Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church (Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy)
Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church (Belokrinitskaya Hierarchy)
Russian Old-Orthodox Church (Novozybkovskaya Hierarchy)
Pomorian Old-Orthodox Church (Pomortsy)
Churches not in communion with others.
Churches with irregular or unresolved canonical status are entities that have carried out episcopal consecrations outside of the norms of canon law or whose bishops have been excommunicated by one of the 14 autocephalous churches. These include nationalist and other schismatic bodies such as the Abkhazian Orthodox Church, Evangelical Orthodox Church, and Russian True Orthodox Church.
Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
Communion of the Western Orthodox Churches
Evangelical Orthodox Church (Mongrel Orthodoxy)
Holy Orthodox Church in North America, in communion with Greek Old Calendarists
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church Canonical
others........
(Mongrel Orthodoxy)
NEW TEXT BOX :
The Eastern Catholic Churches
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Oriental Catholic Churches,
also called
The Eastern-rite Catholic Churches, and in some historical cases Uniate Churches,[a] are twenty-three Eastern Christian autonomous (in Latin, sui iuris) particular churches in full communion with the Pope in Rome, as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. They are united with one another and with the Latin or Roman Church (also known as the Western Church). In particular, they recognize the central role of the Bishop of Rome within the College of Bishops and his infallibility when speaking ex cathedra. The majority of the Eastern Catholic Churches are groups from the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox churches, and the historic Church of the East that have returned to communion with the Bishop of Rome, either due to theological concerns or due to understanding the role of the Bishop of Rome as head of church. As such the five liturgical traditions of the twenty-three Eastern Catholic Churches, including the Alexandrian Rite, the Armenian Rite, the Byzantine Rite, the East Syriac Rite, and the West Syriac Rite, are shared with other Eastern Christian churches.[3] Consequently, the Catholic Church is comprised of six liturgical rites; including the aforementioned five liturgical traditions of the Eastern Catholic Churches along with the Latin liturgical rites of the Latin Church.[4]
Albanian Greek Catholic Church .
Belarusian Greek Catholic Church .
Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church .
Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia .
Greek Byzantine Catholic Church .
Hungarian Greek Catholic Church .
Italo-Albanian Catholic Church .
Macedonian Greek Catholic Church .
Melkite Greek Catholic Church .
Romanian Greek Catholic Church .
Russian Greek Catholic Church .
Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church .
Slovak Greek Catholic Church .
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church .
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church .
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church .
Other various
see "Eastern Catholic Churches"
wiki link :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches
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