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PRIMUS INTER PARES: or first among equals, is a Latin phrase indicating that a person is the most senior of a group of people sharing the same rank or office. Usually, the role is considered a necessary inclusion in a system in which all parties are equal.
In the Orthodox Church, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (currently His All-Holiness Bartholomew I) fulfils this role. Historically, the bishop of Rome was considered the first among equals of the pentarchy. The rising amount of power claimed by the pope, along with other factors, was the ecclesiological reason for the Great Schism. After the Schism, however, the role of first among equals fell to the patriarch of Constantinople.

​hey have a kind of "Pope" figure called Primus Inter Pares - also called The Titular Head of the Orthodox Church.

There is some reason to believe that the schism with Rome was, behind the scenes, largely due almost entirely to Greece not wanting to see herself subjected to Rome, and in effect wanting her own Pope. Some think therefore it is more accurate to think of Eastern Orthodoxy country by country with its own Pope, their archbishops, and the Titular Head as a kind of chief Pope with reduced powers so as not to offend the other Pope figures.

​Also, Constantine the Great was given the role of primus inter pares but for obviously different reasons.
And not only that, Eastern Orthodoxy is even further defiled by the mass murderer Constantine the Great as he founded Constantinople (it bears his name) and The "Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople" is supposed to have his special title because of that. This really make Eastern Orthodoxy defiled with blood to all those in the Spirit who know Jesus taught Love and Peace not war, murder or slaughter.

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Primus_inter_pares

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BEARDS AND CLERGY:
This issue shows they are not understanding the whole old testament law was nailed to the cross. They live in the shadow, not reality of Christ (Galatians)
see link
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from:
"How to Recognize the Holy Apostles in Icons"

in Orthodox Iconography Judas is almost always shown beardless, like John, Philip, and Thomas; thus, like them, he was perhaps still a teenager at the time he betrayed his Saviour.

This shows the doctrine Orthodoxy has that the clergy should grow beards, as if some OT law was still here with us. Judas is shown with no beard in icons, and with no "halo", but could that be not because he was supposed to be a teenager, but because they want to brand a Judas any man in the ministry with no beard? 

So it's another Tradition John, Philip and Thomas were all teens when Jesus was incarnate on Earth? Sure you know that by Faith? How many traditions need to fail to prove trusting in traditions bogus over Gods Holy Word?

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THE ICON TEEN HERESY:
In the language of icons Judas, John, Philip and Thomas had no beards, as they were all teenagers (a tradition). This is heresy as the bible says "let him not be a novice". Teens and younger men in the Faith are not teachers, bishops or quote "elders". This is probably done as in the early days heretic churches used statues of gods and mythological figures and renamed saints and apostles after them, and converted heathen shrines into churches. As Orthodoxy has the unbiblical tradition of men in the ministry having long hair (1 Cor 11:14)  and beards (OT) that meant they had to develop a false teaching these disciples must have been teenagers, even though it contradicts the criteria of ministers in the Faith.

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CATECHUMENS: def =
catechumen |ˌkatɪˈkjuːmɛn|
noun
a person who is receiving instruction in preparation for Christian baptism or confirmation.
• a young Christian preparing for confirmation.
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This is a really big deal issue. You are rfused baptism until it becomes clear you are sufficiently indoctrinated. That is NOT a new testament practice. You are refused confirmation (to be part of the church) without making a choice against the Filioque for instance. Major heresy!

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CANONISATION OF SAINTS: is a heresy, as all believers are saints (Romans 1:7). This is part of their deceptive power structure, that added "priests" to the list of ministries when it does not exist (see 1 Cor 12:28 &  Eph 4:11-12)

http://biblehub.net/search.php?q=called+to+be+saints

The holy ones of the Orthodox Church have various customary saint titles with which they are commemorated on the Church Calendar and in divine services.

The following list explains the references:

• Confessor: one who has suffered for the faith but not martyred outright

• Hiero-confessor: one who has suffered for the faith, but not martyred, who is also a clergyman.

• Enlightener of N. or Illuminator of N.: the saint who first brought the faith to a people or region, or who did major work of evangelization there

• Equal-to-the-Apostles: one whose work greatly built up the Church, whether through direct missionary work or through assisting the Church's place in society

• Fool-for-Christ: a saint known for his apparent, yet holy, insanity

• God-bearer: one who bears God within himself and is aflame in heart with love for Him [1]

• Great-martyr: one who was martyred for the faith and suffered torture

• Hieromartyr: a martyr who is also a clergyman

• Martyr: one who has died for the faith

• Merciful: one known for charitable work, especially toward the poor

• Myrrh-bearer: one of the women who were present at Christ's passion and went to the tomb to anoint the body of Jesus

• Myrrh-streaming, Myrrh-gusher, or Myroblete: the relics of the saint exude holy and sweet-smelling (and often miraculous) oil

• New-martyr: a martyr often bearing the same name as a more ancient martyr, but usually more recent in the Church's history

• Passion-bearer: one who faced his death in a Christ-like manner

• Protomartyr: the first martyr in a given region (in the case of Stephen the Protomartyr, the first martyr of the whole Church)

• Right-believing: an epithet used for sainted secular rulers

• Righteous: a holy person under the Old Covenant (Old Testament Israel) but also sometimes used for married saints of the New Covenant (the Church); righteous may also used as a translation for the Greek hosios, which is usually translated as "venerable."

• Unmercenary: a saint who refused to take payment for healing

• Venerable: a monastic saint

• Venerable-martyr: a martyred monastic

• Virgin-martyr: an unmarried, non-monastic, chaste female martyr

• Wonderworker: a saint renowned for performing miracles, also called "miracle-worker"

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ETHNOPHYLETISM: 

connected to autocephaly:
A doctrine that each area must have one bishop only, in their official church power structure, but because of the ethnic propensity for races to meet together, a lot of bishops may exist. This is connected to another issue that some Greeks think the only true Orthodox are Greeks
is a very contentious issue in Eastern Orthodox churches
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"The problem is that Orthodox dioceses (officially called "jurisdictions") in the Diaspora are superimposed on each other. The result is that there are usually several Orthodox bishops of different Orthodox churches in Diaspora cities. This situation violates the canonical principle of territoriality – that each city and province should have its own unique bishop."

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Ethnophyletism is the belief that the Church needs to be racially/culturally based, a lot of the schismatics are Greek supremacists who believe you need to become Greek to become Orthodox. 

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CHURCHIANITY: - is connected to 1) purpose built Church buildings and 2) A bogus ministerial structure and "offices" or ministries. 3) Uniforms 4) Ritualism 5) Liturgicalism 6) Icons 7) Subjugation of the now newly invented "laity".
The word "church" as such does not actually appear in the Greek new testament, and as far as I am aware God did not command the building of synagogues in the old testament. It can be argued therefore that as the only evidence of believers assembling together in the new testament was in nature, such as by a river in the Book of Acts (God's Cathedral of nature) and in houses. the building of such places as so called churches and cathedrals is entirely unbiblical, and even another evidence that Orthodoxy is following after yet another tradition of the Pharisees. 
Translating the word "assembly" as church is something more than an Anglicization, and is perhaps one of the few times the King James Version of the bible allows itself to translate a Greek word not just in an Anglicized fashion, but in a "churchianity" type fashion. It can certainly be argued that such a criticism is rather pedantic, however. An "assembly" of such a kind was of believers, and perhaps visitors, and as such was not just any assembly of people, but of the body of Christ the saints (we are all called to be saints - Romans 1). Thus a word signifying not just an assembly of people was chosen, but one signifying believers. However I do not think this argument holds true at all to call a building "a church" and this is not done in the new testament. Thus by subtle means religions like Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy has passed off as biblical the building of expensive, highly elaborate, and unbiblical buildings because of the misuse of the word "church". These buildings were the ancient equivalent of modern day "mega churches" only costing even more money, and with their gold and silver artifacts even more ostentatious and therefore affront to the needs of the poor. These buildings also became symbols of the tyrannical power these churches often wielded in society also.

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MONKS, NUN'S AND MONASTERIES: all man made religion.
Mount Athos and Monasticism
​Monasticism is a central part of the Orthodox faith. Mount Athos in north-eastern Greece is described as the centre of Orthodox monasticism. It is the only place in Greece completely dedicated to prayer and worship of God. For this reason, it is called the Holy Mountain.
Most monasteries are coenobitic: living a communal life. The peninsula is divided into twenty self-governed territories. Each territory consists of a major monastery and some other monastic establishments that surround it (cloisters, cells, cottages, seats, hermitages).

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PRIESTS: This entire ministry is bogus, and is spiritualised in the new testament, along with sabbath, circumcision, and feast days.
Major heresy!

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MORTIFICATION: Self-denial and corporal mortification. This has of course a biblical foundation, but becomes warped in Catholicism and Orthodoxy, to proportions similar to salvation via Purgatory, as if torture helps save the soul.

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CELIBACY OF THE CLERGY:
Different than Romanism.celibacy of the clergy (Romanism), Orthodoxy - refusing a priest to remarry if his wife dies, priest and deacon can only marry before ordination

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UNIFORMS:
Note the heresy of "the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes" described in the Book of Revelation is often thought to mean NICO = higher than, or conquering, LAITANES = the laity (lay people, as distinct from the clergy) thus seeing the sinful priest "cast" as higher than the congregation, and this is magnified by the wearing of uniforms.

they are "defrocked" if they discuss confessions and imposed penances with others

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BISHOPS:
1) Bishops must be celibate, and priests and deacons cannot be married after ordination, only before.  If a priest's wife dies he cannot remarry - source  Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.

someone suggested a subtle heresy, in addition to the Twelve Apostles, they believe in 70 more, to link this perhaps with the 70 elders in the OT, and thus try to link OT to NT apostolic succession in a subtle fashion?. Need to research this.

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CALL NO MAN FATHER:
They call men Father in ways banned by Jesus.

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CONFIRMATION:
no one is baptized and Chrismated into the Orthodox Church without first spending a good long time being educated regarding our beliefs and doctrines. The usual time period is about a year, but it can be far longer than that. It's an individual thing between priest and catechumen (student). 
When the priest deems a person ready to be admitted into the church as a member, the beginning of the ceremony of baptism and Chrismation includes a verbal renunciation of Satan and all his works. 
I believe this is what you are talking about as "exorcism" associated with baptism. It's not like you see in movies or documentaries..a priest casting out vicious demons. Rather, it's a willing renunciation of Satan, expressed by someone who is not possessed by Satan!

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APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION:
Called "an unbroken tradition of apostolic succession" because it is not in the new testament that a person gets a ministry in this way, it is the heresy that authority is passed on by the laying on of hands, and a spuriously defined "ordination" that has of course a plethora of man made rites attached to it. If one lays hands on a person to pray for them, that does not mean the authority of church ministry is passed on like a baton in a Greek marathon race, and that to prove you have a ministry in Christ in a city, you must produce what amounts to a spiritual family tree going back eventually to the Apostles. It sounds more like the transmission of a disease than the verification of authority. The bible forbids endless genealogies, which that would entail. Authority in Orthodoxy has successors of it, but there entire religion is one long list of heresies.
The problem is partly in the use of the word "bishop" in itself. This was anglicized in the KJV bible to an already existing concept. It means an overseer, not a Pharisee in a mitre and a uniform bedecked in icons and gold. As words in Greek like Hades and Theos are not legalistically set aside by God in the new testament Greek, some amount of freedom in translation is indicated. But the use of the word "bishop" in English as a translation of overseer is somewhat controversial, as is the over simplified use of the already existing English word Hell.

The OED states
apostolic succession
noun
(in Christian thought) the uninterrupted transmission of spiritual authority from the Apostles through successive popes and bishops, taught by the Roman Catholic Church but denied by most Protestant.

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HOW MANY SURVIVED?

All Christians went through mass persecution before Constantine, We rejected Constantine, and your type of sacerdotalist heretics forced us into hiding. The Dark Ages then followed, where your claim history records what happened is clear nonsense, the murders that happened in the Inquisition are kept secret by the Catholics. The Orthodox ignore pre Reformation Protestants like the Lollards. Then the Reformation. Early Reformation the Catholics mass murdered the pacifist anabaptists in the Massacre of St Bartholomew's Day (proving why early Christians had to hide from you guys).

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as the true faith does no idols and other archaeological evidence, and hid (often under the Ichthus symbol) its not recorded the exact numbers who survived in hiding, so thats tough for me to say. God partly confirms this at the end of Rev 18, by refusing to put an approximate number of those slain by Catholics and her daughters Orthodoxy, just "all those slain upon the Earth".

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ISRAEL: 

Galatians 4 is about Israel and the MASSIVE change in strategy by God. The Jews by rejecting the new covenant became part of Hagar (read the chapter) and want to defend physical Israel with violence. It says there true believers (pacifist Sarah) are pilgrims on a journey to the Jerusalem above, and this is the fulfilled "Feast of Tabernacles" as Calvary was the fulfilled Passover, that is kept now by "sincerity" it says so, not by some old feast day rituals.

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