These different branches of Orthodoxy when you see these different names of national backgrounds they hold the same theology. It’s not like different denominations. The term use for it is jurisdiction. There’s a Greek jurisdiction, there’s an Antiochian jurisdiction. It’s just like different departments within a single worldwide church

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People look around America and say, “Look there’s Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Antiochian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox. Why do you have so many different churches?” As a matter of fact, we all hold the same faith. We are in communion with each other. To us, it’s just one church. We have separate administrative bodies, just because the patterns of immigration over the last couple of centuries, but really we are one church underneath it all. Hopefully we will unite into a single administrative unity before long, but we already have the same faith, we already have the same worship, we already have everything in common that’s important. I think sometimes there’s not a lot of urgency about making this change, just because in all the things that really matter we are already united. These different branches of Orthodoxy when you see these different names of national backgrounds they hold the same theology. It’s not like different denominations. The term use for it is jurisdiction. There’s a Greek jurisdiction, there’s an Antiochian jurisdiction. It’s just like different departments within a single worldwide church. A single worldwide church that doesn’t need a boss up at the top internationally to run everything. It’s enough for us to be organized just up to the point of our nation, our people group, our gathering, our tribes and tongues and nations. That’s really the extent to which we need to be organized, because the faith is holding us together from underneath.