BTW, I enjoy your posts and learning about the Orthodox Church. Is it true that all seven of the churches addressed in The Book of Revelation were located in what is now Turkey and are now dead or close to it?
"Is it true that all seven of the churches addressed in The Book of Revelation were located in what is now Turkey and are now dead or close to it?"
I don't know. Revelations is a Book which the East doesn't use liturgically. If indeed those Churches were in Turkey, its likely they are now empty, or darn near empty. The term "dead" or "dead see" is used all the time but from a purely personal pov, it seems somehow inappropriate to me. Indeed the reason those dioceses are still "on the books" is so that we don't come to accept that Christianity has been finally and permanently wiped out in those places.