A question for Eastern Orthodox friends

[wynd]

Yes, the Greek in Orthodox is similar to the Roman in Catholic. Just as it refers to how we derive our liturgy from Rome and is communion with the bishop of Rome, the Eastern Orthodox derive their liturgy from the Greeks and are in communion with the Greek patriarchs. Most of the Eastern Orthodox churches outside of Greece and Middle East don’t use Greek anymore except for small parts - much like we don’t use Latin in the mass, with exceptions of course.

The situation in America is rather complicated. The Ukrainian Orthodox in the USA is under the Patriarchate of Constantinopole (note the Ukrainian Orthodx Church in Ukraine is under Moscow) whereas the Orthodox Church in America is under the Patriarchate of Moscow. The OCA is granted autochepaly by the Patriarchate of Moscow, which is not recognised by the rest of Orthodoxy. To make it complicated, the Moscow Patriachate still maintains parishes in USA outside of OCA.

In addition, Antioch, the Serbs, Romanians and Bulgarians also have their own dioceses in North America. And I presume most of the other Orthodox churches would have at least parishes in North America.

To make it even more complicated, there are also the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church in America (different from the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA), which are ‘walled off churches’ said to be ‘in resistance’ against the Patriachate of Moscow.

And we are still talking only about Eastern Orthodoxy in America.

I hope these are all clear.

And yet, we are all in communion with each other

Side note: ROCOR re-established communion with the Moscow patriarchate in 2007. (More info)

 

[spina1953]

I am learning much about the orthodox and the east. thanks for all he information I hope to learn more form the posts on this thread.