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You must say that "It is one of the dominant religions in Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina and there is a significant historical minority in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine".
All this information must be in the paragraph where all the orthodox-majority countries are listed. 188.172.111.72 (talk) 21:44, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
They are not even in full communion anymore after the 2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism. And they have always been distinguished from each other along ethnic lines for hundred years. The title is misleading. I propose to change it to “Eastern Orthodox Churches”. We already got Oriental Orthodox Churches, so why does Eastern Orthodoxy got treated differently!? 75.157.108.212 (talk) 07:28, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
It is not the second largest it is the third largest even by the page given on second largest it shows a clear diagram of percentages with orthodox being way smaller than both protestant and catholic church Onlyloss6973 (talk) 06:46, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Orthodox church has smaller denominations like Coptics Oriental and others so your argument is false. All those protestant denominations are protestant they are part of a singular denomination called Protestanism Onlyloss6973 (talk) 07:02, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
But in the chart they are part of the same Orthodox branch i.e Orthodox it even mentions in the diagram which you can clearly see after entering the page in "the section second largest denomination" Onlyloss6973 (talk) 10:40, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Onlyloss6973: They might be part of the "Orthodox" branch, but they are not part of the Eastern Orthodox Church. This page is about the Eastern Orthodox Church. Eastern Orthodox Church comprises several churches that are in full communion with each other. Protestants are not in full communion with each other. Vanjagenije(talk)11:08, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Good explanation above by Vanjagenije, fully second that. The Eastern Orthodox Church is one church (and Oriental Orthodox are not part of it), which is the second largest church after the Catholic communion. Jeppiz (talk) 11:17, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You have written nothing of the Eastern Orthodox Christians of India and China evangelised by St Thomas in CE 52 & CE 68 respectively. This establishment is in communion with the conglomerate of Churches under the title of Orthodox Christian Churches of the East (eg Greek, Jerusalem, etc.) There were several fragmentations of this Church over the millenia due to 1) Christology (following Nestorian, etc.) 2) literal destruction (actually a genocide) by the Roman Catholic Church (Portuguese- vasco de gama et al) They wanted to proclaim to the world that they were the first to evangelise a pagan (Hindu) nation around 1065CE 3)fragmentation of the Church from then on by the Dutch/French/Portugese/ finally the English & then in the 20th century the American and other “missionaries,from the various fragmentations of the Roman Catholic Church ie Protestants. The largest breakaway was in early 20th century and the faction is called the Mar Thoma Church which has a partial semblance to the original Orthodox Christian church of India but have a very Protestant make up of the worship services and are not in communion with the Original Orthodox Church of India established by St Thomas.
The Chinese Orthodox church is almost vestigial and a majority is Nestorian but still exists today. 2601:204:D281:1D60:D0DE:5181:B464:61C4 (talk) 23:31, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Not done. Please indicate sourcing that supports this. ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:45, 5 February 2024 (UTC)