Orthodox Catholic is typically a title used by ACROD parishes and maybe some OCA parishes. Neither group is in communion with Rome. To my knowledge, no church is in communion with both Rome and Orthodoxy.
No. There were attempts in the past where Eastern Churches coming into union with Rome wanted to maintain communion with Constantinople. But you really have to choose one. The Orthodox believes that Rome is heterodox, and therefore anyone in communion with Rome cannot be in communion with them.
Actually a number of groups have “Catholic” in their title, most obviously the Polish National Catholic Church and the Old Catholics. It doesn’t mean they are in communion with Rome.
Because Catholic and Orthodox weren’t nouns in the past, they were adjectives. Catholic describes the Church (universal, for all, gentiles and jews) and Orthodox describes the faith (true, right belief).
An excellent observation.
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If we get into those semantics, we can claim that all Orthodox, Eastern, and Oriental, are in communion with the(ir) Pope.It is taking all of my strength not to say “the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria” right now, because I don’t want to confuse the the OP…suffice it to say that “Pope” didn’t always mean what Roman Catholics think it means, either. Still doesn’t, in fact.
Oh you.If we get into those semantics, we can claim that all Orthodox, Eastern, and Oriental, are in communion with the(ir) Pope.
Oh you!
Yes, but it failed though. There were seperate talks between the Melkite and the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch to restore communion betweeen their to Churches, creating a link.
Many of the “founders” of the OCA and ACROD were Greek Catholics before they left communion with Rome. The OCA was at one point known as the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America.
My books are packed away at the moment, but in one of Clark Carlton’s volumes (he’s an Orthodox apologist), Carlton discusses the meaning of the word catholic. According to Carlton, it originally meant something like entire, or complete. It took on the secondary meaning of “universal” later on. The Orthodox view is that each autocephalous local church is complete in and of itself, and has the fullness of the faith. Therefore each Orthodox church is catholic. For Orthodox, the catholicity of each local church does not result from the fact that it makes up a part of the whole. The view of most in the Catholic church is that all the local churches in communion with Rome are considered part of the whole (i.e. universal) Catholic church.
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Pope means father.Not so difficult to comprehend.It is taking all of my strength not to say “the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria” right now, because I don’t want to confuse the the OP…suffice it to say that “Pope” didn’t always mean what Roman Catholics think it means, either. Still doesn’t, in fact.