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There are some Orthodox churches and individuals that claim that they are not only Orthodox but Old Catholic as well (ex: Orthodox Church of America). They maintain that Ireland, Spain, and all of Western Europe was Orthodox prior to the Western Schism.
Ireland was very fluent in Greek, familiar with Byzantine literature and independent from Rome; so much so that Rome sponsored the British invasion of Ireland. Spain had the Mozarabic rite, which was supressed by Rome. And their boldest claim, the HRE had a national and an autocephalous church (hence the Investiture Controversy)!
According to the Old Catholic-Orthodox, Charlemagne, etc. would have been Orthodox, because prior to the schismatic Papist heresy and its radical innovations.
What does /his/ think about their claims?
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>>1613542
>WE
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>>1613542
>Western Schism
I should say the Great Schism
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Man, Benedict was fucking great. Shame he stepped down only to be replaced by that dumb cocksucking faggot Francis.
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>>1613542
It's a lovely thought.. ;-;<3
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>Ireland was very fluent in Greek, familiar with Byzantine literature and independent from Rome
Only the last part is true
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Irish monks were the only ones fluent enough in Greek and capable of transalting Dionysus and the Church Fathers during the Early Middle Ages. The oldest surviving manuscript of Maximus' Ambigua is a Latin translation by Scotus Eriugena.
>with the rise of the Islamic Empire, the west was further cut off from the language. After a while, only a few monasteries in the west had Greek works, and even fewer of them copied these works (mainly the Irish).[12] Some Irish monks had been taught by Greek and Latin missionaries who probably had brought Greek texts with them.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_the_Greek_Classics
Suck a huge dick.
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