Section 11: World Orthodoxy
The Orthodox Church beyond Russia and America: the pre-schism and Byzantine inheritance, the Ottoman centuries, the family of autocephalous churches, and the contemporary inter-Orthodox crises (Crete 2016, the Ukraine autocephaly schism of 2018–19).
Tradition: Pan-Orthodox
Contents
Early and Byzantine
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| pre-schism-church.md | The church of the first eight centuries as history: pentarchy, Constantine, the East–West drift |
| byzantine-church.md | Symphonia, iconoclasm, Photius, the real chronology of 1054, 1204, Florence, 1453 |
| ottoman-period.md | The Rum millet, the neomartyrs, the Kollyvades, and the road to the autocephaly wave |
Autocephalous Churches
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| constantinople.md | The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the primacy debate, both positions documented |
| alexandria-antioch-jerusalem.md | The three ancient patriarchates today |
| serbia.md | The Serbian Church: St. Sava to the 2022 Ohrid resolution |
| romania.md | The Romanian Church: Latin Orthodoxy, the prison-saints question, the largest Western-European diaspora |
| georgia.md | The Georgian Church: ancient autocephaly, 1811–1943, the present |
| greece-bulgaria-and-others.md | Greece, Bulgaria (and phyletism), Cyprus, Albania, Poland, Czech–Slovak, and the contested autocephalies |
Contemporary
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| crete-council-2016.md | The Holy and Great Council, the four abstentions, and the reception debate |
| ukraine-autocephaly-and-2018-schism.md | The OCU Tomos, Moscow’s break with Constantinople, and the state of the schism — both sides documented |
Reading Order
The Early and Byzantine files in order, then the autocephalous-churches profiles as needed; the Contemporary files presuppose both.
See Also
- Section 04: Russian Orthodox Tradition — the Russian Church, treated separately at depth
- Section 10: Orthodoxy in America — the American jurisdictions
- Section 08: Canon Law — autocephaly and territory in canonical theory
References
- Runciman, Steven. The Great Church in Captivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968.
- Runciman, Steven. The Eastern Schism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.
- Denysenko, Nicholas. The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018.
- Ware, Timothy (Kallistos). The Orthodox Church. Rev. ed. London: Penguin, 1993.
- Primary documents: the 2019 Tomos to the OCU; Crete 2016 conciliar documents; synodal statements of the churches as cited per file.