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by Suaidan
Mon 14 July 2025 11:02 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: True Orthodox Demographics
Replies: 8
Views: 222

Re: True Orthodox Demographics


Respectfully, Father, while theoretically the True Orthodox might have a more traditional mindset when it comes to family, the facts on the ground seem to indicate that in practice, the situation isn't all that different from the World Orthodox. I can only speak for the Greeks since my synod is ...
by Suaidan
Mon 14 July 2025 7:57 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: True Orthodox Demographics
Replies: 8
Views: 222

Re: True Orthodox Demographics


Two more recent sources: https://cnewa.org/eastern-christian-churches/orthodox-church/orthodox-churches-of-irregular-status/the-old-calendar-orthodox-churches/

https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/usdos/2005/en/33332

According to these surveys, there are between 500,000 to 800,000 ...
by Suaidan
Mon 14 July 2025 5:54 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: True Orthodox Demographics
Replies: 8
Views: 222

Re: True Orthodox Demographics


Father, you've claimed that there are around three million Romanian True Orthodox, and almost the same amount in Greece. You've claimed that these numbers come from the Moscow Patriarchate's surveys when they reached out to the GOC-K after the schism with Constantinople. I've looked and looked and ...
by Suaidan
Mon 14 July 2025 3:00 pm
Forum: True Orthodox Christian Churches
Topic: True Orthodox Demographics
Replies: 8
Views: 222

Re: True Orthodox Demographics

Those numbers are almost two generations old. Unless two generations of True Orthodox around the world all entered a suicide cult instead of marrying and having children, that number is exponentially higher.

by Suaidan
Fri 4 July 2025 6:44 pm
Forum: Heterodox Groupings / Debate
Topic: Dubai Orthodox Christian Church
Replies: 3
Views: 366

Re: Dubai Orthodox Christian Church

It's Coptic, which I figured from the architecture and double checked with a search

by Suaidan
Fri 4 July 2025 6:43 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Someone should have done this years ago
Replies: 0
Views: 393

Someone should have done this years ago

@SubdeaconNektarios is collecting an annual of ecumenist activities for 2025 and it's huge.

https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxd2lE6F ... 3d_SqVpEzJ

by Suaidan
Sun 8 June 2025 3:07 pm
Forum: Praxis
Topic: Should We Rest from Work on the Leavetaking of the Ascension?
Replies: 2
Views: 856

Re: Should We Rest from Work on the Leavetaking of the Ascension?

The tradition in the Church has long been that all feasts should be rested from work. Medieval serfs usually took all important and even semi-important feasts off. Only in our secularist productivity-driven age have we prioritized work over Church.