AH Challenge: Orthodox Germany

Maybe a different reformation? In the reformation the Germans (and maybe various other people) break with rome and become ortodox instead of forming new churches.
 
Maybe a different reformation? In the reformation the Germans (and maybe various other people) break with rome and become ortodox instead of forming new churches.

Its all to late! You need a much stronger Byzanz in the 7.-8. century.
 
While rather implausible you could have a stronger Byzantium that makes a deal with the Holy Roman Emperor sometime during the Investiture Controversy that in Exchange for troops that a new Patriarch in Germany is recognized.
 
when the missionaries first start going to Germania, they are Greeks instead of Romans. (I know the church wasn't split then, but I think there were some different rites in Rome vs Constantinople).. so the missionaries convert the Germans to Greek-rite Christianity, and when the Great Schism rolls around they side with the Orthodox.
 

Philip

Donor
This one is actually easy. The New Finnish interpretation of Lutheranism is correct, and Melanchthon's overtures to Patriarch Jeremiah are better received.
 

Susano

Banned
The shism happened between the Latin and the Greek parts of the then still at least theoretically universal church. Menaing, the difference was already in place before the offical start of the schisma. And Germany was as fixed inside the Latin Church as its even possible. After all, it is the directed descendant of the Frankish Realm, THE state of the Latin Church, and furthermore, its the HRE, whose entire state conception is linked with the Latin Church.

So, nom the split itself is not possible. Weird reformationa nd Russian conquest, maybe, but the former I cant see and in the case of th elatter there wouldnt be an own patriarchate...
 
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