orthodoxy

According to historians, the persecution of Christianity in the Soviet Union and by the Communists as a whole was the bloodiest in human history - in fact, according to some historians, more people died for the Christian faith in the 20th century than at any time before since the emergence of...

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 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...

In many European countries in OTL, shops are closed on Sundays, because Sunday shouldn't be about business, but about rest and the worship of God. Make it so that in addition to this, Catholic countries wouldn't allow shops and restaurants to sell bird and mammal meat on the Wednesdays and...

I suppose the easiest way to increase the numbers of adherents of Eastern Orthodoxy in the US is to somehow have numerous immigrants coming from Slavic nations, along with Greece and from the numerous Christians from the Middle East. Perhaps Russia is hit with a major famine, forcing numerous...

This may be a little out there, but what if instead of being based on the Serbo-Croatian language area that the OTL yugoslavia was based on, instead was based on the orthodox south slavs, a Serbo-Bulgarian Nation that consisted of the Moesia area instead of the Illyria of OTL Yugoslavia Does...

The Byzantine Empire was conquered in 1204 by the forces of the Fourth Crusade. The empire was dismantled and its territories divided up between Venice and the new Latin Empire of Constantinople, led by Baldwin of Flanders. The effects of this were pretty disastrous for the Byzantines, and the...

Okay, so, so far this map doesn't have a timeline attached to it, but I'm working to fix that. It's called "Orthodox Germany" because the original idea of the TL was "what if Germany was Orthodox". After that, I just sort of ran with it and made a map. Sorry for the border gore, especially in...

So the US is 73.7% Christian, with 48.9% being Protestant, 23% being Catholic, and the rest being other sects of Christianity. So with any POD after 1860, have Orthodox Christianity become a major religion in the US that is at least on par with Catholicism. What does this require? How does this...

What if Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor, doesn't die in a riding accident in 450? I'm envisioning a scenario in which the results of the "Robber Council" (Second Council of Ephesus) in 449 are not overturned immediately. If Theodosius lives longer, Marcian has no way to the throne and...

So for the average AH.com visitor, Lithuania is a name that only rings a bell on three separate occasions: - something to merge Poland with and forget about - filler country in 20th century scenarios - "What if Lithuania adopted X religion/stayed pagan?" And the last one, although...

IOTL, Medieval Sweden has extensive contacts with Russia, which, as we all know, converted to Orthodox Christianity under Byzantine influence. Is there any way for this religious influence to somehow also be bounced off towards Sweden, resulting in an Orthodox Christian country in Scandinavia...

I wrote a overly long explanation, but I decided to erase it and put it here: Starting in 602 AD, can the Byzantine empire crush Persia in such a way, that it manages to fully colonize it in the following centuries, resulting on Persia being recognized by it's habitants as core byzantine...

So, how large can the orthodoxy get after 1054 in a best case scenario (without making it a wank, like having them to colonize america or something)

When was the latest time that the Ottomans could plausibly convert to Christianity? How would that affect European relations? What about Islamic relations?

Months ago I made a thread about what would happen to the pope if a ressurgent byzantine empire took over Rome after the great schism, and most of the people agreed that in this case the Pope would flee north and stabilish another papacy on a city in the north In this case, where and why would...

This is a (hopefully) mini series of miniposts about ministates, in somewhat Wikipedia-like form. Name: Monastic State of the Holy Mountain (Greek: Μοναστικὴ Πολιτεία Ἁγίου Ὄρους) Short form: Holy Mountain (Greeek: Ἅγιον Ὄρος), in English the name Mount Athos is often used Capital: Karyes...

Hey there AH.com. I've been a member here for a few years now, and a huge fan of the Eastern Roman Empire and its history. Despite my decently good knowledge of the state, I've always been wary of attempting to do a timeline on the subject matter as I haven't felt confident in my abilities to...