The Orthodox Name

[JustinHesychast]

Is it just me, or is the EOC not very well known? :scratch:

The RCC has its name out there pretty well. The EOC has little that I have been able to find. Catholic Charities, Catholic schools, Catholic Hospitals... I've yet to see anything even vaguely similar by the EOC. Why is that?

[OIT]

For one, most of the RC hospitals, schools, etc, were in the old days run by monks and nuns. RC monasticism is very different from Orthodox Monasticism. There are many RC Orders (Dominicans, Jesuits, Benedictines, etc) whose primary mission is to teach, whereas Orthodox Monasticism has never had such things as their primary "missions" I guess you could call it.

[The Prokeimenon!]

Like OIT said- the primary focus of Orthodox monasticism is prayer, as opposed to teaching etc.

Rdr Moses

[Annoula]

another aspect is that all the Orthodox Churches were supressed for so many years. the Ecumenical Patriarch is still based in Constantinople which is located in an Islamic state, Turkey. Russia was suppressed by the communist goverment for so many years also.

as far as i know the only "free" church was the Orthodox Greek Church in Greece, which of course belongs to the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople.

Orthodoxy did not have the chance to flourish. let's hope that she will get her chance now.

[Ioan cel Nou]

another aspect is that all the Orthodox Churches were supressed for so many years. the Ecumenical Patriarch is still based in Constantinople which is located in an Islamic state, Turkey. Russia was suppressed by the communist goverment for so many years also.

as far as i know the only "free" church was the Orthodox Greek Church in Greece, which of course belongs to the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople.

Orthodoxy did not have the chance to flourish. let's hope that she will get her chance now.

The Greek Church is autocephalous and under the Archbishop of Athens, not part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

James