• LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works
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      This is false, the Antiochian Orthodox Church has been autocephalous since centuries before Christianity ever even came to Russia.

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        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.

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          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.

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      1 year ago

      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!