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St. John the Baptist Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church

📍364 Mill Hill Avenue, Bridgeport, CT ✝greek_orthodox
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2 stances that depart from the denomination

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Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America denies. This congregation affirms.
"affirms_strongly — Only professing believers should be baptized, by immersion. Baptism follows faith — it does not create it. This is the defining Baptist distinctive."
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America denies. This congregation affirms.
"he baptized people in the Jordan, teaching repentance"
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What Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America teaches

Positions bound by the denomination's confessional standards. This is what the tradition teaches; whether this specific congregation publicly holds each is a separate question — see Statements below.

Affirms
Denies
  • Believer's Baptismstandard
    Baptism practiced once, infant primary (RCC Trent; Orthodox catechism)
  • Homosexual practice and biblical sexual ethicsSTRONG
    Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; historic universal Christian teaching.
  • Immaculate ConceptionSTRONG
    Universal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
  • TransubstantiationSTRONG
    Orthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.
  • Women in pastoral / ordained officeSTRONG
    1 Timothy 2:12; 1 Corinthians 14:34; historic apostolic practice.
Wrestles with
  • Assumption of Marystandard
    Orthodox celebrate the Dormition — similar substance, different theological framing (falling asleep, not immediate bodily assumption).
  • Pacifism vs. just-warweak
    Default just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.
  • Permissibility of divorce and remarriagestandard
    Divorce permitted but with liturgical penance; up to three sacramental marriages allowed.
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