Are you Orthodox?

"Orthodox" is a Greek word that means "right believing." It was that word that the Byzantine Church used to describe itself and those Churches in which it shared Communion including for many centuries the Church of Rome.

Today, to our shame as Christians, the Catholic and Orthodox Churches no longer share Communion. The main point of contention is the authority of the Pope.

Various attempts have been made to repair this breach. None have yet been successful. One such attempt was made by our own Orthodox, Romanian Church which entered into Communion with Rome in around 1700.

Of course, in entering into communion with Rome our Church had to sever communion with our mother Church, the Great Church of Constantinople. Today the Orthodox and' Catholic Churches are pursuing better, more positive ways of restoring communion between them. Proselytism by either Church of the other's faithful is regarded as contrary to the Gospel of unity, and to the reality that each is truly part of the one Body of Christ as "sister Churches". For our part, we seek to recover full communion by all means possible, so that, as Christ prayed to His Father, "all may be one" (John, 17:22).