We are trying to start an Orthodox College Youth group at our college and one of the Orthodox priests (a convert) said we should not let any Copts or Armenians or Ethiopian Orthodox into our membership rolls....grudges (not in communion with) from the 5th century is it? or more significant?
well if you’re praying with them then non canonical churches is something of a loaded question...
These folks are monophysites, they may not believe in the trinity the same way the Orthodox do, though I’d personally say if they’d have no problems reciting the Nicene Creed then by all means pray with them, if not I still think they’d make a useful contribution and you could pray separately.
Those groups are Monophysite. They did not accept Chalcedon, therefore, they are not valid.
“We are trying to start an Orthodox College Youth group at our college and one of the Orthodox priests (a convert) said we should not let any Copts or Armenians or Ethiopian Orthodox into our membership rolls....grudges (not in communion with) from the 5th century is it? or more significant?”
Why does it not surprise me that it is a convert priest who is making trouble? Maybe someday when I grow up I can be a holy legalist like so many of the converts! Given the heresy that many of those convert priests spout on such internet sites a Ancient Faith, I’d take their protests with a grain of salt, Eleni mou.
Relations with the Monophysites, at least among the Greek and Antiochian Archdioceses, are excellent with intercommunion occurring on the basis of economia. The theological reasons for this are that it may well be that the differences about the nature of Christ thought to exist in the past likely were more about words than “substance” (no pun intended).