Talk:Organization of the Eastern Orthodox Church

message: I heroically restrained myself from jocularly stating in the article that Eastern Orthodox theologians cannot write a paragraph without using the word "canonical" four or five times.  (Mathematicians also frequently use that word, but not as often as Eastern clergy.) Michael Hardy 02:08, 15 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I think perhaps this page could be moved to Eastern Orthodox Church organization, or something like that, since it's about how the church is organized, rather than about other aspects. Michael Hardy 02:56, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: when its church is so old?
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.113.79.25 (talk) 11:34, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  why is Georgia ranked so low in the list? 

message: Only 2 or 3 paragraphs of this article add information not already present in the main article and in the History article. So I am wondering whether this article has a solid reason to exist. Maybe just copy the relevant information where necesary, and merge. :130.225.20.57 22:39, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is essentially a list of Eastern Orthodox churches and merging it would just make the already very long article even longer. I am strongly against the merge. Nikola 14:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I also am against merging it, since other language versions are keeping list and article apart as well. (interwiki performance). --213.155.224.232 17:47, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  merger tag 

message: I suppose this is not terribly surprising, but this statement
:There would have been five ancient patriarchates had the Church of Rome not broken off during the great schism in the 1054.
is pretty blatantly POV.  According to the Catholic perspective, it is the four eastern churches which broke away from the Pope.  I'm sure this can be rephrased to be not POV. john k 17:52, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a fair bit of POV in the comment by Nikoz78; certainly many Catholics would identify numerous occasions long before the schism where the Pope of Rome asserted a primacy over the entire Church; and would also point to passages in the patristic fathers which identify the same primacy. Nor is Wikipedia an Orthodox encyclopaedia, contra Deusveritasest. Gabrielthursday (talk) 22:58, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orthodox  POV? 

message: These two churches are listed both under "autonomous churches" and  "churches without autonomy".  Which is it? john k 17:57, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finnish and Estonian orthodox: autonomous or not? 

message: I am not aware that anyone considers Western Europe to be an autonomous church.  There was a proposal to that effect a few years ago from the Patriarch of Moscow, but that was contingent on all three of the Russian churches (Moscow, ROCOR, and Rue Daru) merging together.  The entry under Moscow for Metropolis of Western Europe actually links to the Rue Daru group of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Unless there is any viewpoint to the contrary, I propose to remove the entry from the list and from the template.Paterakis (talk) 22:38, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Western Europe? 

message: This jurisdiction was listed under churches without autonomy, which is clearly not true. Its autonomy is universally recognized. I moved it to the category of churches with autonomy. Deusveritasest (talk) 07:02, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America 

message: As far as i know Albanian church is right after greek church and senior towards poland church. it is created in 1924, so we should rerank the churches. Do you agree?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.24.247.82 (talk) 18:13, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: . The Albanian church was created in 1922, the Polish one in 1924, so the Albanian church has a seniority on the Polish church. user:sulmues --Sulmues 19:57, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seniority - Albania or Poland? 

message: This list is according to the Slavic reckoning, whereby Cyprus has been relegated and Russia takes her position. In the tradional southern, Greek and Arab understanding of the hierarchy of the Church, Cyprus has the honorable position of being placed immediately after the ancient Patriarchates, above Russia. This stems from the fact that she was not subsumed into the Patriarchate of Antioch, and was allowed to be the first Autonomous jurisdiction, and in fact first autocephalous church, when the tomb of Barnabus was discovered, following a dream of a monk as to its wherabouts.
The honors that are entitled to the Archbishop of Cyprus are to carry a stick with the double headed serpent to signify knowledge, and to sign his name in red ink.82.36.217.136 (talk) 19:20, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Cyprus doesn't ever appear before any of the Patriarchates in the hierarchy, even the non ancient ones. Cyprus is the highest of the autocephalous churches, but remains just that. She is always of course above Greece Eugene-elgato (talk) 00:24, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, she can be placed immediately AFTER Moscow http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Rotunda/2209/Cyprus.html Eugene-elgato (talk) 00:29, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Church of Cyprus 

message: The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria isn't mentioned here - I can't see why. It is mentioned in Oriental Orthodoxy. Now I see the Armenian Orthodex Church isn't mentioned either. There may be a reason that they're not included here, but it should be made clear. --Chriswaterguy talk 01:27, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Oriental Orthodoxy They aren't Eastern Orthodox, but Oriental Orthodox. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:00, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coptic orthodoxy 

message: There are several churches marked as autonomous under the Patriarchate of Constantinople, yet "not universally recognized." Could someone with more knowledge about this area clarify this in the entry? It doesn't seem readily clear to a non-expert who is recognizing and who is not these churches. Does the Patriarchate of Constantinople not recognize some as autonomous? --71.111.194.50 (talk) 01:44, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That is actually correct. It is not recognized by the Patriarchate of Constantinople, however, as stated in the Orthodox Church of America article, the apologysts remind the reader that the independence proclaimed in 1970 will sooner or later recognized by the Patriarchate. Since the dates of seniority are those of establishment (i.e. when the Churches proclaimed their independence), and not when they were recognized, I will make a change by including the OCA in the list of the Autocephalous churches. If this will raise ANY eyebrows, please drop a line on my talk page. sulmues (talk) --Sulmues 20:05, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autonomy "not universally recognized" 

message: Here, the church are ranked "in order of seniority, as per year of independence (autocephaly)". But the seniority is not the same thing as year of independence. Russian Orthodox Church is, for example, much younger than Church of Cyprus, but is more senior because Russian Church has the rank of patriarchy and the Cypriot church has the rank of archeparchy. We should rank the churches in the order of seniority or by the year established, but as it is written here in the article, it is not clear which of these two criteria is used. Vanjagenije (talk) 10:51, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order of seniority 

message: What about the "The Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai"? It is listed here as both autocephalous and autonomous, but there are no sources to prove either of this. The link is just the redirect to Saint Catherine's Monastery article, which gives some facts on this topic. It states that: 
Should it be included int he autocephalous or autonomous churches? Vanjagenije (talk) 11:06, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai 

message: *The Korean church under the Ecumenical Patriarchate is a diocese. It's not autonomous.
*The Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate is a Metropolis. I can't see how it can be autonomous.
*The Archbishopric of Ohrid is also recognised by the Church of Greece. The Holy Synod of Greece has decided to accept people coming from the FYROM as Orthodox, only if their baptism has been validated by the Autonomous Archbishopric. Moreover, I can't find an official statement from any of the Orthodox Churches disapproving the autonomous status of the archbishopric. Rhodion (talk) 22:35, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Autonomous or not?

message: It should follow order of Ecumenical Patriarchate, http://www.ec-patr.org/dioceses.php?lang=en&id=99. The autocephaly of the modern Georgian Orthodox Church was approved in 1990. So, it's ranked after Serbian, Bulgarian and Romanian Church. 
The reference to the year 478 is dubious. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Orthodox_and_Apostolic_Church#The_long_path_to_autocephaly, "until the 740s" the election of new bishops "had to be confirmed by the synod of the Church of Antioch". Sorry, but that is autonomy - not autocephaly.
If we decide to go back to history and recognize Georgian Patriarchate from 1010 - we should also recognize that the first autocephalous churches of Georgia, Bulgaria, and Serbia are older than Russian Patriarchate. --N Jordan (talk) 04:14, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order of seniority 

message: Is there any objective basis for the distinction made here between "Churches that are unrecognized" and "Churches self-styled as Orthodox, unrecognized as such"?  Should these categories be merged?  Obiara (talk) 17:42, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not clear to me, but the first category appears to include groups that recognise the Orthodoxy of the canonical churches; the latter category may include churches that do not. But that's definitely not determinative. Gabrielthursday (talk) 23:07, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Since there's no evidence supporting this unexplained distinction, I'm going to combine the categories.Obiara (talk) 20:14, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Churches self-styled as Orthodox" 

message: The "See Also" section is indeed new, and thus is new content in the article. Yes, I know that it's for links to tangential subjects. What I can't see is what lists of Catholic and Lutheran dioceses have to do with the organization of the Orthodox Church, even tangentially. Ought we to list all the organizational pieces of all Christian churches here, or even of all religions? I guess I would ask, where should it stop? And so, of course, it's also proper to ask where it should start, if at all. A tangential topic ought to have some connection with the article topic, and I can't see any at all here. What's the justification? Evensteven (talk) 07:31, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi , I think , the editor who added the links, might be the person best suited to explain. However, if this is an article about how some Orthodox churches are organized, including links to other organized lists seems to make some sense to me. The connections to the article topic are Christianity, Churches, organization. The tangent is that they are different forms of Christianity. So they are related, but not directly. Anyhow, I'm certainly not going to fight to the grave on this. I am curious to hear Fastifex's explanation. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:21, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: , , sure what you say is true. And rest assured I'm not going to "fight" anyone. My point is based on the observation that the way one church organizes itself is not affected by and does not affect how other churches organize themselves. At least, not so much. And in Orthodoxy's case, influence would have to run outward from Orthodoxy, not in towards it, since it was organized way before Protestants existed, and since organizational differences with the RC would have developed after the East-West schism. In any case though, I do see your point, and will not oppose it. Still, I would observe that the mere lists of dioceses are also not really topically parallel to church organization - rather, they are the result of church organization. I would think that someone wanting to look at how other churches organize would need to look at articles on those topics instead of just having a single clue. Wouldn't there be a better set of links to put in place in that case? I think it's a weak edit as it stands. Evensteven (talk) 16:01, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I also fail to see any significant relevance for these links. As Evensteven noted, the list of links could go on endlessly to include the organizational structure of every religion in existence. Additionally, I looked around and haven't seen any sort of precedence on Wikipedia for such links in other articles related to religion. Unless there is a consensus here to keep the links in a week or so, I may be bold and remove them. I left Fastifex a message about this discussion. Sundayclose (talk) 16:51, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Topics that are related to the subject might presumably already be linked in the article. Quoting from WP:SEEALSO,  That said, this is not a significant issue for me, (I've got vandals to whack) so I'm yielding on the matter. Seems like this would be Fastifex's beef anyway. Regards to all, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 17:46, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  See Also 

message: The above mentioned ceased to function in 2014 with the passing of the last president of the association. I believe it is now defunct. This could be updated with the appropriate ref in the future. Dr.khatmando (talk) 16:01, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistence) now defunct.  

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Bishop in the Eastern Orthodox Church and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 January 2#Bishop in the Eastern Orthodox Church until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Veverve (talk) 02:01, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Bishop in the Eastern Orthodox Church" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure)  Colin M (talk) 21:12, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Eastern Orthodox Church organization →  – More natural in my opinion. Super Ψ Dro 20:10, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

text: Perhaps Structure of the Eastern Orthodox Church would be even clearer? In any event, I support a move to an "of the" title: the current name is indeed ambiguous. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:55, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 5 February 2022