orthodox christianity

The official Canon of TL Orthodox Church in America (OCA) in order: The Holy Bible Old Testament ------------------------- 1. Genesis 2. Enoch (Ethiopian Version of Enoch I) 3. Exodus 4. Leviticus 5. Numbers 6. Deuteronomy 7. Joshua 8. Judges 9. Ruth 10. 1 Samuel 11. 2 Samuel 12. 1 Kings 13. 2...

In OTL, the Turkish, nomadic groups that would become Ottomans converted to Islam around the 8th and 9th century AD after continued interaction with the Abbasid Caliphate. These Turks would go on to become the Ottoman Empire, capture Constantinople, and conquer the Balkans. But lets take a...

I remember hearing that Henry VIII had considered converting to Orthodox before he decided on forming the Anglican church but I for the life of me can't find any sources on it and would like to see if anyone here knew for sure.

With any pod between 1050 and 1750, how cam we get a unified Caucasus under the Orthodox faith that can repel the Turkic invasions. Two possibilities that come mind are a Georgia that remains unified or a Circassia that decides to rebuild it. What other candidates are there and what major...

After the year 1525, how can we get Protestants and the Eastern Orthodox Church to see each other as common allies against the Catholics as opposed to merely seeing each other as another heresy as otl? While Protestants have moved historically to work with the eastern churches at times, was...

What hurdles would need to be overcome for the Lithuanians to convert to Orthodoxy early as possible and how would that affect eastern European history? To my knowledge individuals have converted to Christianity on occasion albeit to Catholicism, but that they didn't convert nationally until the...

After reading about Greco-Catholics I was left wondering: is that possible for some sort of Orthodoxy but with Latin rites to exist? Apparently, it is. I haven't read more than just a page on Wikipedia, though. But it seems that the Western Rite Orthodoxy originated/developed in 19th century. So...

I once heard that why Bulgarian identity survived while Avar didn't was that the Bulgarians had reason to try and absorb in all the society into their identity and slavs into the warrior aristocracy to better resist Roman attacks. Now I also seen the argument that Christianity also played a...