What are all the sects of the Orthodox church?

Question

I would like to know, I do know a few.

Answer 1

You misunderstand the Orthodox. I am Byzantine Catholic, which are people who were Catholic, then Orthodox, and then repaired the rift with Rome and are Catholic again.

The Orthodox Church is a single church with multiple jurisdictions. When you see "Serbian" Orthodox you are not seeing a separate Church from the "Greek" Orthodox, what you are seeing is the synodal body the church is tied to in the immediate sense.

A weakness of Orthodoxy in the United States has been that the old connections still apply. The Orthodox in the United States really should be American Orthodox, but that isn't true, mostly for historical reasons. The Orthodox believe that God placed each people on the Earth for a reason and that they provide unique gifts so to prevent homogeneity and to honor these differences, each people has their own flavor of Orthodoxy.

The Copts are not strictly speaking Orthodox, however, they have recently signed common Christological definitions with the Pope of Rome. So while you could argue they do not accept all of the first seven councils, they do in effect by the common Christology.

Other non-Orthodox Eastern Christians are the Oriental Orthodox . However, common Christological statements are being made so the distinctions are more historical than real.

Finally, if you view the groups as churches in schism rather than separate churches then there is but one church. There are differences between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, but they generally are not issues of substance, unless you are highly partisan. So the Catholic Church is also a sect of Orthodoxy, but generally it is Western rather than Eastern. That said, there are 21 or 22 Eastern Churches within the Catholic Church ranging from the Maronites to the Malabarans to the Chaldeans to the Byzantines.

Answer 2

There are no sects in the unified Orthodox church which follows the entire 7 Ecumenical Councils.

There are the Byzantine Catholics - who worship like the Orthodox but have their loyalties to the Pope of Rome.

The above poster has simplified the analysis. The Greek Orthodox are not a sect of Orthodoxy. Copts are not a sect either because they only accept 3 of the 7 Ecumenical Councils.

Answer 3

Do it this way...
(1) Take a country name and append Orthodox Church
(2) Take a sub-division of christianity and merge it witht he word Orthdox and follow it by Church - for example "Orothodox Catholic Chruch"
(3) Take a direction and mere it with one of the above two names
such as Eastern Orthodoxy

And you have begun to scratch the surface on all of the Orthodox church names. There are thousands of them.

Answer 4

greek and coptic