Talk:Greek Orthodox Church

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The article includes the "Orthodox Church of Antioch" among churches that use the Greek liturgy. I'm pretty sure that the local Antiochian Orthodox Church uses Syrian rather than Greek... aside from when they use English of course. ("local" meaning in the U.S.) Wesley 17:31 30 May 2003 (UTC)

The Antiochian Orthodox Church's official liturgical language is Greek, however it is almost never used in actual services. Most services are conducted in the local language or in Syrian Arabic, since many Antiochian Orthodox Christians are recent immigrants. The status of Greek is similar to that of Latin in the post-Vatican II Catholic Church. The Antiochian Church is called Greek Orthodox in Syria and Lebanon. - Efghij 03:18 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Contents 1 dab style 2 a note 3 All orthodox churches? 4 Albanian Orthodox Church 5 does this concept really exist?

[edit] dab style

I just removed a bunch of wikilinks and piping per MoS:DP. I left way more text than is usually proper on a dab page. Should there be a page explaining the family tree (as it were) and relationships between all these churches? That wouldn't be a dab page and would then free up this page to simply allow for disambiguating links to the "Greek Orthodox Church". Tedernst | Talk 17:01, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] a note

People who try to disambiguate pages that link here tend to do various mistakes. Please be more careful when you try to do it, or ask someone who knows more about it. Thanks. talk to +MATIA 07:14, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] All orthodox churches?

What about Ethiopian Church? Isn't that not made from Greek Church? Tourskin 01:15, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

no, the Ethiopian Church, like the (Egyptian) Coptic Church and the Armenian Church, is considered an Oriental Orthodox Church. They did not accept the Council of Chalcedon and are not considered Greek Orthodox. Richardson mcphillips1 (talk) 20:14, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Albanian Orthodox Church

Can someone please help?

I can't figure out how to edit the box at the bottom, but I think the Albanian Orthodox Church (aka Church of Albania) shouldn't be there. It includes ethnic Greeks but also alot of ethnic Albanians, and back when Abp ANASTASIOS first got there in the '90s, some non-Orthodox Albanians thought he was pro-Greek and tried to kill him and other things. (There's been ethnic conflict, Greek ["Epirot"] separatism, etc., there.) Including the AOC under "Greek Orthodox Church" where "Greek" means "Hellenic" as here (vs. Rum / Romaios / Roman / Chalcedonian), thus, is not only misleading, but potentially dangerous to people on the ground there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.158.38.118 (talk) 05:13, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] does this concept really exist?

ROCOR (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia) used to call itself the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church; the largest Catholic Church of Byzantine tradition is officially called the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church; the Carpathian Orthodox Church in the US also calls itself the Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church. I think the term 'Greek Orthodox' means either 'the Church of Greece' or the GOARCH and its equivalents but not Alexandria or Antioch etc, or 'world Orthodoxy in general'. It is common to refer to the Greek Orthodox of Alexandria, but not in the sense of this article (i.e. as belonging to a larger sub-section of Orthodoxy). Richardson mcphillips1 (talk) 19:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)