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Section size for Eastern Orthodox Church (64 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	16,461	16,461
Name and characteristics	32	26,904
Definition	3,853	3,853
Name	11,213	11,213
Orthodoxy	7,952	7,952
Catholicity	3,854	3,854
History	64	63,186
Early Church	2,498	2,498
Ecumenical councils	4,863	4,863
Other major councils	879	879
Roman/Byzantine Empire	3,573	3,573
Early schisms	3,808	3,808
Conversion of the South and East Slavs	6,885	6,885
Great Schism (1054)	4,430	4,430
Greek Church under Ottoman rule	2,588	2,588
Russian Orthodox Church in the Russian Empire	3,257	3,257
Eastern Orthodox churches under Communist rule	4,909	4,909
Post-Communism to 21st century	2,012	25,432
Moscow–Constantinople schisms	42	23,420
1996	3,370	3,370
2018	20,008	20,008
Organisation and leadership	7,844	30,034
Church councils	5,896	5,896
Adherents	16,294	16,294
Theology	62	21,781
Trinity	3,505	3,505
Sin, salvation, and the incarnation	2,253	2,253
Resurrection of Christ	355	355
Christian life	2,554	3,970
Eastern Orthodox Order of Saint Benedict	1,416	1,416
Virgin Mary and other saints	4,311	4,311
Eschatology	2,634	2,634
Bible	4,691	4,691
Liturgy	405	2,426
Church calendar	1,368	1,368
Church services	109	653
Music and chanting	544	544
Traditions	18	1,937
Art and architecture	672	672
Local customs	1,247	1,247
Holy mysteries (sacraments)	1,836	11,781
Baptism	945	945
Chrismation	1,571	1,571
Holy Communion (Eucharist)	544	544
Marriage	3,681	3,681
Holy orders	3,204	3,204
Interfaith relations	814	9,713
Relations with other Christians	7,514	7,514
Relations with Islam	1,385	1,385
Constituencies	1,632	16,568
Main communion	12,355	12,355
Traditionalist groups	31	2,069
True Orthodox	1,074	1,074
Old calendarists	55	55
Old Believers	909	909
Churches not in communion with other churches	512	512
See also	899	899
Notes	26	26
References	41	11,013
Citations	32	32
Sources	8,357	10,940
Tertiary reference works	2,583	2,583
Further reading	5,700	5,700
External links	853	853
Total	219,282	219,282

Eastern Orthodoxy in other countries

You must say that "It is one of the dominant religions in Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina and there is a significant historical minority in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine". All this information must be in the paragraph where all the orthodox-majority countries are listed. 188.172.111.72 (talk) 21:44, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. Please indicate sourcing that supports this. ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:45, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Church or Churches

They are not even in full communion anymore after the 2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism. And they have always been distinguished from each other along ethnic lines for hundred years. The title is misleading. I propose to change it to “Eastern Orthodox Churches”. We already got Oriental Orthodox Churches, so why does Eastern Orthodoxy got treated differently!? 75.157.108.212 (talk) 07:28, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Second largest

It is not the second largest it is the third largest even by the page given on second largest it shows a clear diagram of percentages with orthodox being way smaller than both protestant and catholic church Onlyloss6973 (talk) 06:46, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Protestantism comprises hundreds of smaller denominations rather than a single massive "Protestant Church". ~ Pbritti (talk) 06:55, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Orthodox church has smaller denominations like Coptics Oriental and others so your argument is false. All those protestant denominations are protestant they are part of a singular denomination called Protestanism Onlyloss6973 (talk) 07:02, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Eastern Orthodox Church is separate from the Oriental Orthodox Churches, which includes the Coptic Orthodox Church. Those are different groups that you're conflating. You are a bit confused here. ~ Pbritti (talk) 07:20, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But in the chart they are part of the same Orthodox branch i.e Orthodox it even mentions in the diagram which you can clearly see after entering the page in "the section second largest denomination" Onlyloss6973 (talk) 10:40, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Onlyloss6973: They might be part of the "Orthodox" branch, but they are not part of the Eastern Orthodox Church. This page is about the Eastern Orthodox Church. Eastern Orthodox Church comprises several churches that are in full communion with each other. Protestants are not in full communion with each other. Vanjagenije (talk) 11:08, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Then the link given is very wrong and misleading Onlyloss6973 (talk) 13:08, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good explanation above by Vanjagenije, fully second that. The Eastern Orthodox Church is one church (and Oriental Orthodox are not part of it), which is the second largest church after the Catholic communion. Jeppiz (talk) 11:17, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For the saind

The Epistle 197.231.206.95 (talk) 19:09, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regular cycle the Epistle

bible

197.231.206.95 (talk) 19:17, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You have written nothing of the Eastern Orthodox Christians of India and China evangelised by St Thomas in CE 52 & CE 68 respectively. This establishment is in communion with the conglomerate of Churches under the title of Orthodox Christian Churches of the East (eg Greek, Jerusalem, etc.) There were several fragmentations of this Church over the millenia due to 1) Christology (following Nestorian, etc.) 2) literal destruction (actually a genocide) by the Roman Catholic Church (Portuguese- vasco de gama et al) They wanted to proclaim to the world that they were the first to evangelise a pagan (Hindu) nation around 1065CE 3)fragmentation of the Church from then on by the Dutch/French/Portugese/ finally the English & then in the 20th century the American and other “missionaries,from the various fragmentations of the Roman Catholic Church ie Protestants. The largest breakaway was in early 20th century and the faction is called the Mar Thoma Church which has a partial semblance to the original Orthodox Christian church of India but have a very Protestant make up of the worship services and are not in communion with the Original Orthodox Church of India established by St Thomas. The Chinese Orthodox church is almost vestigial and a majority is Nestorian but still exists today. 2601:204:D281:1D60:D0DE:5181:B464:61C4 (talk) 23:31, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's because those are converted at Saint Thomas Christians, Syro-Malabar Church, Saint Thomas Anglicans, Oriental Orthodox Church, and a few dozen other articles. The Eastern Orthodox Church is a different thing. ~ Pbritti (talk) 02:39, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]