Edited sentence: A handful of EOC parishes joined The Orthodox Church in America in 2002.Another group (perhaps protestant, perhaps more of a gnostic esoteric group) that once made itself "look" more Orthodox without officially becoming Orthodox is an offshoot of the Holy Order of MANS, although this group has since, for the most part, entered into the various jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church on individual or small-group bases.In the 1970s, the Evangelical Orthodox Church was formed by a group of Protestants based on their reading of the Bible and church history.Led by Peter Gilquist, most of them joined the Antiochian Orthodox Church in the 1980s, although a few bishops and their parishes remained independent at that time.Some protestants who are continuing their search for the 'original' early church are finding their way back to either Catholicism or Orthodoxy