I was thinking, what if East Prussia or Baltic Prussia goes Orthodox before they were invaded by the Teutons, what would happen?
So did 50% of the Christians in Iraq and Syria and most Lebanese.
I doubt the Russians would allow even tokenly Orthodox nation to be invaded and subjugated by western Christians.
I am certain that's a much later development.
Good pointsThe Russians aren't able to do anything. And since the Mongols are invading at this same time (1220-1240), the Russians will have other things on their mind.
Most likely, any Orthodox Prussian state would quickly become Latin rite because the most important lands around them (the Germans and Poles) are already Catholic
These groups did re- join the Catholic church as autonomous rites in the 1500s or 1600s.
With Middle Eastern Catholics, the Marionites never severed ties with Rome. To my knowledge, Syrian Catholics never did either. The Chaldeans, however, broke ties with Rome, but that was in the 1600s. They later restablished them. In the end, to the chargrin of the Orthodox, a sizable number of the Middle Eastern Christians sided with Rome from day one of the schism.
The Prussian Crusade happened in 1230-1280. There is no "Russia" as a state, only individual city-states who couldn't coordinate a response. Perhaps one or two nearby cities like Pskov might try something, but they still have the pagan Lithuanians between them.
If you mean 'were invented on the spot by the Latin schismatics and enforced upon the population by Polish landlords that had Ukraine transferred to the Crown from the Grand Duchy' ... Then yes.
Not according to this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldean_Catholic_Church3. The Chaldeans are a 17th c. splinter group of the Assyrian Church of the East.
Roman, no. Catholic, yes. One can be "Catholic" and not be "Roman".None of these were Roman from the get-go in the sense you're implying.
Or those western Ukrainians and Ruthernians who got tired of domination by the Russians and the schismatic Russian Orthodox church.Had the Russians allowed an Ukrainian Orthodox church earlier than say 1990...
Not according to this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldean_Catholic_Church
Roman, no. Catholic, yes. One can be "Catholic" and not be "Roman".
Pretty impossible. The major force in the area, before the arrival of the Teutons, were the Polish. Having the Polish conquer Prussia might ensure the Catholicization of the region indefinitely.I was thinking, what if East Prussia or Baltic Prussia goes Orthodox before they were invaded by the Teutons, what would happen?