Orthodox here. These kinds of converts are called “ortho-bros”, and we don’t care for them either. They’re our equivalent of the rad-trads in Catholicism.
Any kind of structure like Orthodoxy which values and preserves ancient tradition is going to be appealing to diseased individuals like those mentioned in the article. Their kind of hate has no place with us.
Understandable. I had heard similarly on local radio here that a number of the various churces were woirking on this, including requiring a “cooling off” period prior to conversion. I’m a Catholic convert myself, and I am suprised how many of my classmates have since gone off the deep end to the rad trad way. On top of that i live in a town that was, I believe, the first North American enclave of the SSPX, a rad trad fratenrity of preists that has maintained a quasi-schematic relationship with Rome for pretty much all of their 50+ year history.
Makes sense the Antiochian Church was under the Russian Patriarchate.
This is false, the Antiochian Orthodox Church has been autocephalous since centuries before Christianity ever even came to Russia.
Originally under the care of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Syro-Levantine Eastern Orthodox Christian immigrants to the United States and Canada were granted their own jurisdiction under the Church of Antioch in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution.
This is a group of ex-Russian Orthodox faithful who changed jurisdictions within Orthodoxy, which happens all the time as all our Churches are in communion with one another. This is a far cry from what you wrote:
Makes sense the Antiochian Church was under the Russian Patriarchate.
That is patently false, the Antiochian Church was never under the Russian Patriarchate. Some Antiochians were formerly under the Russian Orthodox Patriarch and are now Antiochians.
I apologize for the reflexive downvote, that was down vote, that was a Reddit habit I’m trying to break now that I’m on Lemmy. Trying to be better here!
