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To: Nikas777; Alex Murphy; Kolokotronis
Whether or not the prediction pans out, it is certainly true that no American convert comes to the Antiochian church by convenience or ease. The denomination has only about 250,000 members in 250 congregations in the country, Professor Nassif estimated.

So would the Antiochian church be one of the 33,000 or so Orthodox "denominations"? :)

43 posted on 10/07/2009 11:25:55 AM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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To: Forest Keeper

“So would the Antiochian church be one of the 33,000 or so Orthodox “denominations”? :) “

:) Hey FK! How’ve you been keeping, my friend? (You know Orthodoxy is “pre-denominational”!)


44 posted on 10/07/2009 11:29:21 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Forest Keeper

The Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, also known as Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, the Eastern Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East, Antiochian Orthodox Church, and the Orthodox Church of Antioch, is one of the five churches that composed the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church before the East-West Schism. It is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church, and the successor to the Christian community founded in Antioch by the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul.


45 posted on 10/07/2009 11:46:01 AM PDT by Nikas777 (En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
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