Old Calenderist

[PFC Nektarios]

Which Orthodox Churches in America are still (Old Calenderist)?
Im converting to Orthodoxy, Im just wondering.

In Christ

[OrthodoxyOrDeath]

The term "old calendarist" is a very general word which has different meanings depending on how you are using it.

If you mean churches which strictly follow the liturgical calendar of the Orthodox Church then you would have the following list:

Genuine Orthodox Church of Greece- of which we could recognize only a few legitimate groups.

"The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia" whose claimants are:
Russian Church in Exile
Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church
and the group legally holding the name

Those are the big ones. There are many smaller ones, usually schismatic.

[Bogatyr]

It is best to see schism in actions and not in conflicted groups. The vast majority of Orthodox Christians follow the Patristic Calendar, and these are the ones you should seek out in becoming Orthodox. Avoid new calendarists, especially antiochians, as people who cannot form you in Orthodoxy but INDEED in schism. The Old Calendarists are as legitimate as the "calendar reform" is schism. Their resistance is correct.
Orthodoxia I Thanatos!
Rostislav Mikhailovich Malleev-Pokrovksy

[Gregory2]

I would also avoid seeking advice from on-line forums, since it hardly mimicks real life!

Welcome to Orthodoxy, if you convert!

[Tessa]

Also THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH strictly follows Old Calendar.
Our patriarch unfortunately has made some rather "ecumenistic" statments lately, but we are definately NOT schismatic.

In Christ,
Tessa

[Bogatyr]

How can a group opposing an activity which provokes schism in the Church be termed "schismatic"?! It would seem to me that the "old calendarists" are those who maintain ecclesiastical unity with the Church while those who follow the calendar schism cause a breach in Eucharistic unity--that's the TRUE schism.
Orthodoxia I Thanatos!
Rostislav Mikhailovich Malleev-Pokrovsky

[Aristokles]

Which Orthodox Churches in America are still (Old Calenderist)?
Im converting to Orthodoxy, Im just wondering.

In Christ
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About 50% of the Carpatho-Russian parishes are still Julian Calender, but don't expect that to last for too much longer (sigh). And with only about 65 years out of the"unia", there's a lot of extra Latin baggage there along with some dubious ecumenism.

Aristokles