Probably convert to Orthodoxy and convert back? Or her married into a Greek family ala My Big Fat Greek Wedding (no offense meant).
"Probably convert to Orthodoxy and convert back? Or her married into a Greek family ala My Big Fat Greek Wedding (no offense meant)."
Could be, or maybe his mother was Orthodox. My name isn't even remotely "Orthodox". I'm wondering if he wasn't a convert to some vagante or uncanonical sect. The fact that he was an "Eastern Orthodox deacon" along with his name points to a convert. There are not many "cradle Orthodox" deacons running around, but there are a number of convert deacons in a couple of the canonical jurisdictions and the non-canonical ones see deacons springing up like mushrooms after a summer rain. I simply cannot understand, in these times, why any serious RC or Orthodox would convert to the other unless it was for marriage purposes. There simply isn't any pressing theological or "salvific" need for it that I can see.