Why did the Orthodox choose to go with the Anglican Book of .

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The Orthodox Church is the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, founded by Jesus Christ and His apostles. It is organically and historically the same Church that came fully into being at Pentecost (Acts 2). Today, the Orthodox constitute the second largest Christian body in the world.

After 1054, and more precisely, after the Norman Conquest (1066) of England, the Churches of the West were drawn into the Great Schism of the Roman Patriarchate away from the Unity of the Orthodox Church.

. . . About ninety years ago he examined the existing Anglican Book of Common Prayer and sent it to the Holy Synod of Moscow. That Liturgy, derived from the ancient use of the Orthodox West, and first expressed in English in the edition of 1549 by authority of King Edward the Sixth of England, was corrected and approved by the Holy Synod for Orthodox Church use.

Why did they choose the Anglican Book of Common Prayer as the basis of their liturgical life?
 
I am quoting from the Orthodox parish in my city. Does that help you?
 
This will be a Western Rite Orthodox parish. I understand Western Rite Orthodoxy arose largely among disaffected Anglicans, so a liturgy based on the BCP is understandable, as it is with the liturgy of the Catholic Ordinariates, which are similarly a home for disaffected Anglicans, and similarly use a liturgy derived from the Book of Common Prayer.

Also, the BCP is a splendid work. 🙂
 
PaulfromIowa said:
Who are you quoting from here?
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The person that examined the 1892 Book of Common Prayer (used by the Episcopal Church) is Tikhon of Moscow (Archbishop Tikhon Bellavin, 1865–1925) a Russian Orthodox.

The Western Rite Vicariate of the Antiochian Orthodox Church (est. 1958)


Moscow did not approve its use but required changes. There was another book revised later from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and adopted by the Antiochian Orthodox.
 
Yep, in contemporary times, some Anglicans did look East and wound up in the Western Rite. I had a Bishop who went thence.

BCPs, in the current day, are…(wait for it)…motley.
 
GKMotley said:
BCPs, in the current day, are…(wait for it)…motley
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No doubt, no doubt, but I don’t include your motley modern North American versions. Any BCP outside the range 1549 to 1662 doesn’t count (if only because the English versions are the only ones I’ve read).
 
Well, fair enough. But even in the 1549-1552-1559 range, you got your motleydom on parade. I sometimes use the Words of Administration progression therein to show the birth of the Elizabethan Compromise.

Not that I haven’t, in my own parish, worshiped from the 1549/1552/1559/1662 Books, as historical exercises.

Not the US 1979 thingy, to be sure.
 
Thank you for your answers. I understand the Orthodox believe that they are the one true church in their opinion. I just did not understand why they chose the Book of Common Prayer. The website that I was on did not say that it was based on disaffected Anglicans.
 
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This will be a Western Rite Orthodox parish. I understand Western Rite Orthodoxy arose largely among disaffected Anglicans, so a liturgy based on the BCP is understandable, as it is with the liturgy of the Catholic Ordinariates, which are similarly a home for disaffected Anglicans, and similarly use a liturgy derived from the Book of Common Prayer.

Also, the BCP is a splendid work. 🙂
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There’s a certain irony there, of course, in that the English Peasantry rose up in rebellion against the Crown when the Book of Common Prayer was imposed upon them as they felt it was too Protestant, thereby demonstrating their retained Catholic feelings at the time. The rebellion was called, fittingly enough, The Prayer Book Rebellion.
 
Yeoman said:
the English Peasantry rose up in rebellion
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Well, some of them did, mostly in Devon and Cornwall, and the Prayer Book was not their only grievance — there were economic problems, too. But there is no doubt that the acts of Refornation were deeply disturbing to many, particularly among the peasantry, who saw the sudden disappearance of not only the liturgy, but also so many of the customs and ceremonies by which they had measured their years and coloured their lives.
 
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