And you, W, are absolutely, positively and completely correct!
TTR, where in heaven's name did you get the idea that The Orthodox Church doesn't accept the doctrine that the Most Holy Theotokos and Mother of God was perpetually a Virgin? One of our titles for her is "ἀειπαρθένου Μαρίας", "ever virgin Mary". Where did you think Rome got its devotion to Panagia from? It came from us.
And just when I was thinking the Orthodox were indistinguishable from Baptists, except more beards and fewer baseball caps...
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“TTR, where in heaven’s name did you get the idea. . . “?
I didn’t. Or at least I didn’t mean to give that impression. I know there is some sort of split, but I think the Roman Church/various Eastern Churches (not just Orthodox) split on Marian issue are the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception.
For historical purposes, this (the ever-virgin dispute) has been around for a long time -— it’s not a protestant thing.
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian was a notable early Christian apologist, and became known as “the father of Latin Christianity.”
He had a whole series of splits with what-eventually-became the Roman church, one of which was his rejection of perpetual virginity, contending that James-the-Epistle-writer was, indeed, the half brother of Jesus as the text states, and rejecting some apocryphal text (James proto-something) as a fake.