[MarkBsnr]

I would agree with you with the possible exception of the Baptists who seem to stay put. They are also somewhat different from your run of the mill Protestant variety. Among them only about 10% are Calvinist, so that ought to tell you something too.

The interesting thing is that the Calvinist denominations of Revolutionary Age times persecuted the Baptists unmercifully and drove them into the deep South, because of their Baptist beliefs, and now a greater percentage of Baptists are Calvinists than are Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Anglicans and the others who drove the Baptists south.

the Slavic side is strong because the Russian Church is 80% of the world Orthodoxy. In addition to that Serbs, Ukrainians and Bulgarians add at least another 5%. Greeks are good people, but the situating in Greece is precarious. They are administratively crippled by Constaintiople which controls a good portion of the diocese in Greece in addition to the Church of Greece which is not part of the Patriarchy. Constantinople is a mere symbol.

This confirms my general understanding of the situation.

The Patriarch's jurisdiction is mainly the diaspora (Church in America, Korea, etc) and the next Patriarch may not even be Greek, but Turkish. The Moscow Patriarchy will slowly take on the lead as the new New Rome in the Orthodox world and the Old Rome will find itself dealing with the the Moscow Patriarch more and more.

Turkish? Well, well, well. Dealing with Russia? I am not surprised in the least. Probably centuries overdue.

[kosta50]

The interesting thing is that the Calvinist denominations of Revolutionary Age times persecuted the Baptists unmercifully and drove them into the deep South, because of their Baptist beliefs, and now a greater percentage of Baptists are Calvinists than are Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Anglicans and the others who drove the Baptists south

Who said anyone was above self-contradiction? :)