Orthodox Faith

The Orthodox Church is the Church founded by our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, described in the pages of the New Testament. It is the same Church continued through time to this day and to the age to come. Her history can be traced–with documents and facts, much as secular history–in unbroken continuity all the way back to Christ and His Twelve Apostles.

For her two thousand years of existence, the Orthodox Church has continued in her undiminished and unaltered faith and life. Today, her apostolic doctrine, worship, structure, and practice remain intact. The Orthodox Church is the living Body of Jesus Christ, the Arc of salvation.

For the first 1,000 years of Christian history there was virtually one Church. In the eleventh century a disastrous schism occurred, resulting in the Western Church, under the pope of Rome, splitting itself from the Orthodox Church. The Eastern Orthodox churches refused to be subject to papal absolutism, accepting no other head than Jesus Christ Himself.

The Orthodox Church is the second largest body in Christendom with about 225 million members worldwide and about six million in the U.S. and Canada.

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