Plausibility Check: Latest possible Slavic embrace of Orthodoxy

Is it possible to have most or all Slavic societies (and perhaps the Lithuanians too) embrace Eastern Orthodox Christianity rather than remaining in, or considering, communion with Rome with a POD after 1204?
 
Is it possible to have much of central or eastern Europe that went Roman Catholic embrace Orthodoxy instead after 1300?
 
Is it possible to have much of central or eastern Europe that went Roman Catholic embrace Orthodoxy instead after 1300?

Cyril converted the Czech but they were reconverted by the Germans IIRC. I think the Croats, Czechs, and maybe Lithuanians are your best bet. Poland is too close to Germany.
 
Cyril converted the Czech but they were reconverted by the Germans IIRC. I think the Croats, Czechs, and maybe Lithuanians are your best bet. Poland is too close to Germany.

But how late can this occur given that the Latin Rite already had a following in Dalmatia by 1200?
 
Cyril converted the Czech but they were reconverted by the Germans IIRC. I think the Croats, Czechs, and maybe Lithuanians are your best bet. Poland is too close to Germany.

And the Czechs and Croats aren't?:confused: Furthermore Lithuanians are Baltic and not Slavic.

That being said, this doesn't mean that they can't become Orthodox, however IMHO the earlier the POD the more likely this becomes.
 
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And the Czechs and Croats aren't?:confused: Furthermore Lithuanians are Baltic and not Slavic.

That being said, this doesn't mean that they can't become Orthodox, however IMHO the earlier the POD the more likely this becomes.

The Czechs and the Croats are closer to Byzantium.
 
Would it help or hurt to have western church reformers in Slavic countries support ecclesiastical union with Constantinople with the POD allows for Byzantine survival late enough for that?
 
The Czechs and the Croats are closer to Byzantium.

:confused: Both the Czechs (in Bohemia & Moravia) and Croats bordered the kingdom of the Eastern Franks, which later becomes the Holy Roman Empire (they latter bordered ''Austria'', Bavarian East Marches).
 
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:confused: Both the Czechs (in Bohemia & Moravia) and Croats bordered the kingdom of the Eastern Franks, which later becomes the Holy Roman Empire (they latter bordered ''Austria'', Bavarian East Marches).

And both were closer to the Byzantines than the Poles.
 
And both were closer to the Byzantines than the Poles.

They were relatively speaking closer to the Eastern Romans than the Poles (although in case of the Czechs they were almost as close as the Poles to the Eastern Roman Empire), but they, just as the Poles, bordered the kingdom of the Eastern Franks, later the Holy Roman Empire, directly, which wasn't the case with the Eastern Roman Empire.
 
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Have the poles and czechs germannized and Slavs of Istria and Dalmatia italianized/absorbed, the remaining slavs will be Orthodox.
 
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