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Chalcedon & Lyons: Two Councils, Two Different Visions of the Church
By Robert Spencer One of the claims that separates Roman Catholicism from the Orthodox Church is the Roman Catholic contention that there...
Robert Spencer
Jan 30, 2023


St Hilarion Troitsky: Christianity or the Church?
St. Hilarion Troitsky, New Martyr of Russia and righteous Confessor of the Church, brilliantly sets for the Scriptural and Patristic...
The Orthodox Ethos Team
Dec 28, 2022


Orthodox Ecclesiology - Lesson 1: What is the Church?
WHAT IS THE CHURCH? The first lesson of our 10 week course, "Orthodox Ecclesiology: The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and the...
The Orthodox Ethos Team
Feb 22, 2021

The Role of the Bishop of Rome in the Communion of the Churches in the First Millennium
Protopresbyter Anastasios Gotsopoulos The 14th Meeting of the Joint International Committee for the Orthodox-Roman Catholic Theological...
The Orthodox Ethos Team
Oct 17, 2017

Fr. George Florovsky on The Boundaries of the Church
by Athanasius Yevtich, bishop of Zahumlje and Herzegovina Editor's Note It is with gratefulness to God and relief that Orthodox Ethos is...
The Orthodox Ethos Team
Oct 12, 2017

Did St. Mark of Ephesus Consider the Latins to be a Church?
Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) The following is an excerpt from the Metroplitan's very important "Intervention and Text to the Meeting...
The Orthodox Ethos Team
Mar 2, 2017

Patriarch of Constantinople's Letter to the Archbishop of Greece
Defrock and Sever Communion with those Opposed to our Council in Crete Troubling and Divisive Intervention into the Internal Affairs of...
The Orthodox Ethos Team
Dec 10, 2016

The 1998 Synodical Decision of the Orthodox Church of Georgia on the Chambessy and Balamand Agreemen
A Milestone and Major Precedent for the Struggle for Orthodox Ecclesiology now Translated into English INTRODUCTION: Among the milestones...
The Orthodox Ethos Team
Nov 24, 2016

Primates or Popes?
Is there an attempt, on account of the Great Synod, to vest the Primates with Papal power? - Protopresbyter Fr. Anastasios Gotsopoulos Do...
The Orthodox Ethos Team
Jun 12, 2016
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