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To: Hermann the Cherusker
During the ninth century this group of Slavs accepted Christianity under the preaching of Saints Cyril (for whom the Cyrillic alphabet is named) and Methodius, two Orthodox Greek monks. This Orthodox Christianity, however, was overtaken by German missionaries who converted the Western Slavs to Roman Catholicism. That’s why Czechs and Poles, for example, are Roman Catholics while Russians and Serbians are Orthodox Christians.

Where you learn history from? Your parts either lies or warped or make Islamic thinking look sane.

The earliest history of the Orthodox Church on the territory of the Czech Republic is connected with the mission of St. Cyril and Methodius, who came to this region from Constantinopole to introduce the liturgical and canonical order of Eastern Orthodox Church. After the death of Methodius in 885 this order was interdicted by Pope Stephen V and the disciples of these Slavonic apostles were forced to leave the country in which they had come to establish the Eastern canonical order. Our Orthodox Church follows the work of Cyril and Methodius and considers itself their heir.

133 posted on 07/08/2003 8:16:15 AM PDT by RussianConservative (Hristos: the Light of the World)
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To: RussianConservative
There was no "Greek Orthodox" Church in the 800's AD. There was simply one Church. St. Methodius worked in Moravia and Pannonia (Hungary), not Bohemia. Note well that he worked as commanded by the Pope. The conversion of the Czechs began with the Baptism of their princes at Ratisbon in Germany, in AD 846. Bohemia was part of the diocese of Ratisbon until AD 973, when the diocese of Prague was created.

Most Poles only converted after AD 996, and they went straight into the Latin Rite of the unified Church.

And from your second website, I hope you'll stop complaining about Catholic Bishops in Russia, so long as the Orthodox are creating Orthodox dioceses in Western Europe.

136 posted on 07/08/2003 8:47:32 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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