The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Edward, You compare to "Traditionalists" to Protestants, because (and as if) "they break off and start their own jurisdictions". But as you admit, Protestants "break off" and have their own "jurisdictions" primarily because they have differing faiths, and yet ...

Yes, so we have the "eastern bulgars" who were muslims and the "western bulgars" who were Orthodox and the founders of the modern state of Bulgaria. Interestly enough, there is still to this day an enclave of Turks in southeern Russia who splintered from during their migration We...

The story you have on your blog speaks as if all Bulgarians were Muslim at the time, which is misleading. At the time of this saints life the Bulgarians were already long converted Orthodox Christians. In the 8th century however, a tribe of them migrated to the Volga and converted to Islam. This is ...