“This is probably an ignorant question, but does the Orthodox church also believe in Purgatory....”
NO.
‘Hope you’re enjoying the summer, MD!
Backatcha! last week was purgation enough to last me a while. Was it miserably hot and humid there as well?
Aren't they going to kick you out of the lawyer's union for giving so firm and unequivocal an opinion?
My impression from my skimming was the orthodoxy endorsed as sort of "purgatorial function". I read a great line which has accorded with my alleged thinking that the approach to and experience of the Divine Fire is, to the damned Hell and to the Blessed Heaven and bliss -- and that that same Fire purges the traces of sin.
My own spekkerlation about purgatory is more on a therapeutic than a juridical model. I've articulated it before as not unlike going to Physical Therapy, where (at least at the place where I went) babes (analogous to angels of light) inflict sometimes astonishing pain on you to make you better. (I thought she was just going to pull my arm out of its socket, throw it on the floor and stomp on it -- and now it's better! Wow!)