A united American Orthodox Church will be much better able to speak ... without resorting to the more mechanical means of a single hierarchy, at least as a temporary means to overcome the real ...

The hierarchy of the Patriarchate remains disproportionately ... Some data suggests that 75% of converts to the Orthodox ...

Others see the female diaconate as a break from tradition and believe it undermines the Orthodox hierarchy ... for other branches of the Orthodox Church. “Being the first to do anything is ...