Category: Global Orthodoxy
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A Tour of the Orthodox World at the Turn of the 20th Century: The Serbian Churches
In 1908, a Roman Catholic priest and writer, Adrian Fortescue, published his landmark book The Orthodox Eastern Church, presenting Orthodoxy to the English-speaking world through the eyes of a very well-informed but also very papist…
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A Tour of the Orthodox World at the Turn of the 20th Century: Mount Sinai and the Lost Church of Georgia
In 1908, a Roman Catholic priest and writer, Adrian Fortescue, published his landmark book The Orthodox Eastern Church, presenting Orthodoxy to the English-speaking world through the eyes of a very well-informed but also very papist…
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A Tour of the Orthodox World at the Turn of the 20th Century: The Church of Greece
In 1908, a Roman Catholic priest and writer, Adrian Fortescue, published his landmark book The Orthodox Eastern Church, presenting Orthodoxy to the English-speaking world through the eyes of a very well-informed but also very…
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A Tour of the Orthodox World at the Turn of the 20th Century: The Church of Russia
In 1908, a Roman Catholic priest and writer, Adrian Fortescue, published his landmark book The Orthodox Eastern Church, presenting Orthodoxy to the English-speaking world through the eyes of a very well-informed but also very papist…
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A Tour of the Orthodox World at the Turn of the 20th Century: The Ancient Churches
In 1908, a Roman Catholic priest and writer, Adrian Fortescue, published his landmark book The Orthodox Eastern Church, presenting Orthodoxy to the English-speaking world through the eyes of a very well-informed but also very papist…
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The Ukrainian Crisis and Orthodoxy’s Impasse, by Carol Saba
Carol Saba is an attorney in France and one of the leading thinkers and writers in the Patriarchate of Antioch. Recently, he published a 5-part series in the widely-read Lebanese newspaper an-Nahar, describing the historical…
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The History of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1830-1923
The following paper, originally entitled, “Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1839-1923,” was written by Professor Dimitris Stamatopoulos and published in the Great Online Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World. The original Greek text may be found at this…
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The Nine Years that Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church
Back in March, I published a 9-part series on the global Orthodox crisis of 1917-1925. I’ve made a few revisions to that account and added an Epilogue and a partial bibliography. Today, I’m publishing…
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The Massive Growth of the Orthodox Episcopate Since 2006
In 2006, there were 668 active, canonical Orthodox bishops in the world. Today, there are 947. That’s a net increase of 279 bishops, or 42% — and most of that growth is coming from…
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How many Orthodox bishops are in the world?
As best I can tell, there are 941 active, canonical Orthodox bishops in the world right now. Give or take. Compared to the 19th century, that’s a big increase — in 1859, we had…