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Etnick,

Regretably, yes.

Many years,

Neil

Glory to Jesus Christ!

I am rooting for the Byzantine Churches. Christ still has a place for us in the Universal Church, while we witness to unity.

In Christ,


Robert

Thank you Irish Melkite for helping understand those statistics.

Are there any stats for Eastern Christians in the USA?
Stephanos I

They are included in the items on the charts in the first posting.

Bless, Father,

If you're asking about the broader picture, including the Eastern & Oriental Orthodox, yes - there are such available.

See:

Orthodox Statistics [geocities.com]. This data is, I believe, from 2000.

Eastern Liturgical Family (Orthodox) [thearda.com] from the Association of Religion Data Archives; this is primarily historical data and uses a broad definition that includes some vagante ecclesiae, as well as such borderline Orthodox communities as the African Orthodox Church.

Eastern Orthodox [4truth.net] contains data from the 2008 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches. It is mistitled, in that it includes both EO and OO Churches and the list is woefully incomplete, including no Ukrainian jurisdictions, for example.

A study on The Orthodox Church Today [orthodoxinstitute.org], published by the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute [orthodoxinstitute.org] in Berkeley, is not a statistical report, but profiles the GOAA and OCA. (The PAOI site has some excellent resource material, by the way.)

Many years,

Neil