Frequently Asked Questions

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• I am not an Orthodox Christian and am visiting your website for the first time.
Where do you recommend that I begin?

• Can you explain the differences between the Orthodox Church and the non-Orthodox
Churches that make up the Roman Catholic and Protestant Worlds?

• What is the significance of the “Old Calendar”?

• Why do you object to “ecumenism”?

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I am not an Orthodox Christian and am visiting your website for the first time. Where do you recommend that I begin?

We offer the following articles:

• What is Orthodoxy?
by Archbishop Averky (PDF)

• What Is Orthodoxy?
by Father George Metallinos (PDF)

• Orthodoxy and Religion
by Father Dr. John Romanides (PDF)

• The Victory of Suffering Love: “He loved them unto the end”
(Encyclical for Pascha, 2010) (PDF)

• Our Personal Resurrection and the Descent into Our Brother’s Hades
(Encyclical for Pascha, 2012) (PDF)

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Can you explain the differences between the Orthodox Church and the non-Orthodox
Churches that make up the Roman Catholic and Protestant Worlds?

We offer the following article:

• An Orthodox Model
by Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Etna (PDF)

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What is the significance of the “Old Calendar”?

We offer the following articles:

• The Patristic Church Calendar: An Indissoluble Element of Universal Church Tradition
by Bishop Photii of Triaditza (PDF)

• Concerning the New and the Old Calendars
by Archbishop Seraphim of Boguchar (PDF)

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Why do you object to “ecumenism”?

We offer the following articles:

• Ecumenism and “Baptismal Theology”: The Protestant “Branch Theory” of the Church in a New Form (PDF)

• Does the Russian Orthodox Church Need to Participate in the Ecumenical Movement?
by Saint Seraphim of Sofia (PDF)

• Participation in the “World Council of Churches” as an Ecclesiological Heresy (PDF)

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