Heh
I realize the above news clip will not please my Roman Catholic readers, thus I hope they’ll further forgive me for the following by Fr Chrysostom MacDonnell, taken from “An Orthodox view of Church History” …
A few years ago I met an Anglican clergyman who was married to a Greek Orthodox lady. They once went to Greece for a holiday and visited her home village. Naturally, she introduced her Anglican husband to the local Papas (the Greek Orthodox parish priest,) who spoke a little English. At the time there was a little old Greek lady standing beside them who asked the Greek priest who this visitor was.
“He’s an Anglican Christian,” the priest responded in Greek.
“What’s an Anglican?” the old lady inquired.
“They’re Protestants,” replied the priest. “You know, like Roman Catholics.”
From Orthodoxie.
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I am neither pleased or displease by an anecdote about an ignorant Orthodox priest.
Tony,
Ignorant in what way?
From the Greek point of view the “protestant” split was in the 11th century and there is little difference in theology between modern Protestant and Catholic. There is very much in common between Catholic and Protestant theologies which is not shared by the Orthodox.