What is Orthodoxy anyway?
Orthodoxy (literally meaning “right way/teaching”) can be traced back to the very time of the Apostles of Jesus. For the first 1000 years the entire Christian church was a unified body of believers. It was not until the year 1054 A.D., when the Catholic Church broke off from the Orthodox Church, that the unity ceased to exist in all of Christendom, and Orthodoxy found its central home in the East. The Church has protected herself from heresies (wrong teachings) by the convening of Seven Ecumenical Councils at various times throughout history. Centuries later, while Martin Luther led the Reformation against the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church continued in its Apostolic lineage as a strong Christian presence in Eastern Europe. Orthodoxy first came to America by way of Russian Monks from Valaam in the eighteenth century. To this day, Orthodoxy has remained theologically unified amidst the pluralism of denominationalism and schisms within the Christian world, and provides a unique sen
