Talk:List of Eastern Orthodox Christians

Possible additions?
Pavlov - my understanding is that he was Orthodox and tried to protect other Christians during the Bolshevik regime.

Tchaikovsky

Jim Londos (famous Greek-American professional westler of the early 20th century) I can personally vouch for his Orthodoxy, he baptized someone at my church.

Konstantin Pobyedanostsev

Pyros Dimas (olympic weighlifter)

Nikos Gallis (Greek basketball player)

John Stamos?

Pete Sampras?

Mark Philippousis??


 * Feel free to add names, I'll look into Pavlov though.--T. Anthony 13:48, 20 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Pete Sampras attended Greek Orthodox church services every Sunday as a child. John Stamos is Protestant however. MK013 05:54, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

How about Mathematicians?? Mathematics is far more respected in Russia and the East of the West, in general, than it is in America, for instance. The Russian mathematicians have always tended to lead the world. Anyway Nikolai Luzin and Dmitri Egorov were profound Orthodox Christians and great luminaries in Moscow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.30.22.137 (talk) 05:00, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

John Tavener
John Tavener publicly came out as a Universalist some time ago, and no longer claims Orthodoxy as an influence on his music. I've been unable to determine if he's still officially a communicant in an Orthodox church, but I wonder if he still belongs in a list like this. TCC (talk) (contribs) 23:31, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads up. I added some more names to give it much needed, I think, non-Russian content. Feel free to take off any due to inaccuracy. Also while I'm here I'll take on another concern. I think renaming the list "List of Eastern Orthodox Christians" is a good idea, but I'm not sure how to do that. Anyone know how please do so.--T. Anthony 01:21, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

He should probably still be listed here if he's still an official member of some Orthodox church regardless of his stated beliefs. I was kind of hoping someone else knew for sure.

I'll be moving the article soon, since you don't object. TCC (talk) (contribs) 01:25, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Troy Palamalu- Pittsburgh Steelers

Alex Rodriguez- NY Yankees

Alex Holmes- St. Luis Rams

Tom Hanks- Actor.

Bob Marley- Musician

Nick Markakis- Baltimore Orioles —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.205.111.74 (talk) 04:13, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Rename?
"Eastern Orthodoxers" isn't really a natural construction in English, is it? I suggest renaming the article to List of Eastern Orthodox Christians, if it's really preferable to, say, Category:Eastern Orthodox Christians. TCC (talk) (contribs) 23:31, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Sirtis et alia
I'm not entirely certain Marina Sirtis is Greek Orthodox, but her wedding and background apparently were according to sources. That's my own doubts, anyone have other doubts on the listed feel free to mention it.--T. Anthony 04:57, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Neat to see new interest
I think Tesla became atheist later in life, but I'm okay listing him. I think I'll put Tavener back, but with an explanation. Glad to see someone adding names, I worry I created too many lists. However the categories for Eastern Orthodox Christians, at present, are rather incomplete or are solely about religious leaders.(And sometimes various Russians, but there is Eastern Orthodox Christianity outside Russia)--T. Anthony 05:19, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Categories
I know some prefer categories to lists, but you can use this list to add some names to the Eastern Orthodox Christian category if you want. Granted if you have strong doubts on some of these names then you shouldn't do that, but I think in some cases there are references. (Or I'll add them if need be)--T. Anthony 09:56, 13 November 2005 (UTC) I'm so glad that when a new person showed up they didn't put this on a list. I should probably start annotating many of these, but I've been doing that alot the past few days.--T. Anthony 07:53, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Tesla
This seems to come up enough I guess I'll just deal with it here.

I guess he can be kept in as he pops back up every time I remove him. Tesla's father was after all a Serbian Orthodox priest. Added to that the Tesla Society indicates that faith is strong in claiming him. Finally his funeral was apparently Serbian Orthodox.

All that said here is my problem. There isn't much indication he had anything but a non-member respect for religion at all. In an interview in 1937 Tesla stated some of the following

1937 interview
 * "While I am not a believer in the orthodox sense, I commend religion"
 * "There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact."
 * "In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise."


 * "Religion: Interested in Buddhism and Christianity, but not an orthodox believer."Wisconsin university

It seems odd to count someone who disbelieves in the afterlife, small "o" orthodox religion, and theological dogma as an EOC. Still I guess he can fit as "identity."--T. Anthony 05:28, 31 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Tesla is already on the page of List of famous children of Orthodox priests. Tell you what if you want the names on that to be here, regardless of their public beliefs in adulthood, I'll add the merger template to that page. Until then you need an actual source that Tesla was himself Eastern Orthodox.--T. Anthony 02:12, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Athletes
To the person who brought up this issue, most of these football players cross themselves before games so it is evident which are Orthodox (for example, Andriy Shevchenko) MK013 05:53, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

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I replaced it. At some point this list might be needed to be divided up. When I did it the coverage of EOC people was not as good as now.--T. Anthony 11:02, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov article say "personally, he was an atheist, which for upper-class Russians of that time was not unusual", but he's on this list. -- 200.226.40.205 (talk) 05:08, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

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mixing up oriental orthodox with eastern othodox
If Bob Marley was baptized into the Ethiopian Church (which is Oriental Orthodox) - how was he Eastern Orthodox. Same goes with the picture of Tigran Petrosyan on the main page - he was Oriental Orthodox too, which is not the same as Eastern Orthodox — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.54.234.213 (talk) 21:36, 8 November 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 26 August 2022

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The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 00:09, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

List of Eastern Orthodox Christians → List of Orthodox Christians – Please place your rationale for the proposed move here. Frietjes (talk) 23:02, 26 August 2022 (UTC) I beieve we should rename this page List of Orthodox Christians, so the list may include Oriental Orthodox Christians. Greenhighwayconstruction (talk) 18:15, 14 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox are different. I disagree with renaming or merging this article. Netherzone (talk) 01:29, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * By that standard this article would be separated into 17 different articles, for the 17 autoceplus churches. Also The photo does include so OO christians. Greenhighwayconstruction (talk) 16:27, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 17??? Only 2, EO and OO, which are different denominations. And, by the way, the OO have several autocephalous churches. Vincent J. Lipsio (talk) 17:29, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * That is not what im saying am saying that using the logic "Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox are different" (one i disagree with) this page should be split into list of Albanian orthodox Christians,list of Russian orthodox Christians ect. Greenhighwayconstruction (talk) 18:07, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Disagree. No sense in changing the name of the article to reflect a scope it doesn't currently have. I would support the creation of List of Oriental Orthodox Christians as an accompanying article. --DilatoryRevolution (talk) 09:14, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

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 * Oppose – The Oriental Orthodox are distinct, having become independent centuries before the East–West Schism. If the scope of this article were to be widened – which would be inadvisable anyway – it would make more sense for it to include all Eastern Christians (thus including Eastern Catholics and the Church of the East). Graham (talk) 05:15, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Did you askd him?
Volodymyr Zelenskyy - current President of Ukraine. Did you askd him if he likes to be nominated as Christian Ortodox? --188.238.159.184 (talk) 15:13, 14 September 2022 (UTC)