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Orthodox bishops in 1859

Jun 2, 2014

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I ran across this the other day — in 1859, there were 278 Orthodox bishops in the world: Church Bishops Constantinople (including Romania, Bulgaria, and part of Serbia) 136 Russia (including Georgia) 65 Greece 24 Antioch 17 Jerusalem 14 Austria (now Serbia, mostly) 11 Alexandria 5 Cyprus 4 Mount Sinai 1 Montenegro 1 TOTAL 278 Source:…

Of Antioch and Alexandria, England and America

May 5, 2014

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Nicholas Chapman

in Firsts, Global Orthodoxy

Introduction: Visitors at Balamand If you were to visit today the web site of the St John of Damascus School of Theology in Balamand, Lebanon you might not be surprised to find a news item about a group of English businessmen visiting the Institute and attending a vespers service. After all, people travel much more…

A Snapshot of Interwar Orthodoxy: The Ecumenical Patriarchate

Dec 14, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy

Yesterday, we began publishing a series of excerpts from Matthew Spinka’s 1935 article on worldwide Orthodoxy in the years following World War I, originally published in the journal Church History.Spinka’s article is a succinct and quite balanced summary of the state of affairs in global Orthodoxy in a very chaotic period. From the standpoint of Orthodoxy…

A Snapshot of Interwar Orthodoxy: Introduction

Dec 13, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy

In the June 1935 issue of the journal Church History, Matthew Spinka of the Chicago Theological Seminary published a 20-page article entitled, “Post-War Eastern Orthodox Churches.” The “War” he was referring to was, of course, World War I, and his article offers a succinct and quite balanced snapshot of the state of the world’s various…

Early stages of the Bulgarian schism from Constantinople

Dec 7, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

We just finished running a series of six articles on the 1872 Council of Constantinople, published contemporaneously in the Methodist Quarterly Review. The following article is from about a decade earlier, and describes the early stages of the Bulgarian split from the Patriarchate of Constantinople. This piece is from an American journal called The Independent,…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 6

Dec 6, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

This is the final Methodist Quarterly Review article dealing with the aftermath of the 1872 Council of Constantinople. From the Methodist Quarterly Review, April 1874. The Bulgarian Church question has, on the whole, attracted less attention during the year 1873 than in the previous years. The Bulgarians, undoubtedly, have the sympathy of the Slavic…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 5

Dec 5, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

This article is the fifth in a six-part series on the 1872 Council of Constantinople. In this installment, we learn about the aftermath of the Council. The one bishop who refused to sign the Council’s decree was the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and when he returned to Jerusalem, he was deposed by his Holy Synod. This…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 4

Dec 4, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

This article is the fourth in a six-part series on the 1872 Council of Constantinople, and this particular report covers the Council itself. It contains what is, to the best of my knowledge, the only complete English translation of the decree of the Council. From the Methodist Quarterly Review, January 1873. The rupture between…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 3

Dec 3, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

In case you haven’t been following along, this is Part 3 in a 6-part series of articles we began last week, covering the 1872 Council of Constantinople, which famously condemned “phyletism.” All of these articles were published in the Methodist Quarterly Review, within months of the events they discuss. This installment was published in the…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 2

Nov 30, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

Yesterday, I ran the first of six articles on the so-called “Bulgarian Question,” a controversy that rocked the Orthodox world in the early 1870s and ultimately led to the 1872 Council of Constantinople, which condemned the heresy of “phyletism.” Search the Internet — both Google and the various subscriber-only databases of academic journals — and…

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