07-03-2022, 06:24 PM
Well if you consider what the Patriarchs do IRL...
Plus it's also worth noting that, aside from Uralica, Novgorod, and Kyrgyzstan where it has a major presence, the Reformed Apostolic Church is quite a small minority in the countries it exists in, and in places like Russia for example, the number of churches is maybe one RAC parish to a thousand Russian Orthodox. The number of non-Uralican adherents is only just into eight digits worldwide, with about 70% of those in Uralica alone.
Still, the numbers are growing. It's quite slow as in some parts of the world they prefer other forms of worship, such as the culturally-Southern African Manzinism, Presbyterianism/Neo-Huguenotism in Calvinia, or more Congregationalist-style churches in North America. It is also quite a conservative Christian branch, so it isn't overly popular in Western Europe, hence the need for a single archdiocese for several countries.
The biggest growth overall is coming mainly in the Former Soviet Union, Romance-speaking Africa, and Canada. The former Soviet Union because that's where it started, and there is a heavy tendency for the churches switching over to Reformed Apostolicism to be Eastern Orthodox, which is why they had such a to-do with the Patriarch of Moscow to begin with. In Romance-speaking Africa (most noticeable in the western and northern Zambezi Republic and the western Akan Empire) most of the switchovers are dissatisfied Catholics. In Canada it's a bit of both although the slight majority of them are Eastern Orthodox (especially Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox) who want to maintain some of the cultural trappings of Orthodoxy but go in a slightly more Biblical direction.
The Vatican has the same stance towards RAC that it does towards Eastern Orthodoxy; as for Eastern Orthodoxy, they consider RAC a "divergent but non-heretical autocephalous church" and - with the exception of Russia - are in full fellowship. Russia is in partial fellowship in much the same way as it was with the Protestant Church in its earliest years. The biggest issue between Nicholas and the Patriarch of Moscow is the latter, unlike the political leaders of Republican Russia, refuses to acknowledge any past wrongdoings concerning Robertian-Era or New-Troubles policies that he supported, along with a large chunk of Russian Orthodoxy. And the former maintains the hardest line on the Church only overtly backing those governmental decisions that "line up with consistent Christian hermeneutics." The PoM is on the exact opposite end of that spectrum, as much as he backs the Russian Republic and some Second Federation policies were too brutal for even him to stomach. One example that always gets dug up is the fact that he opposed the political secession of Novgorod from the fledgling Second Federation in May 2015 and that of Transcaucasia a few weeks later, even though they were for completely valid reasons.
Plus it's also worth noting that, aside from Uralica, Novgorod, and Kyrgyzstan where it has a major presence, the Reformed Apostolic Church is quite a small minority in the countries it exists in, and in places like Russia for example, the number of churches is maybe one RAC parish to a thousand Russian Orthodox. The number of non-Uralican adherents is only just into eight digits worldwide, with about 70% of those in Uralica alone.
Still, the numbers are growing. It's quite slow as in some parts of the world they prefer other forms of worship, such as the culturally-Southern African Manzinism, Presbyterianism/Neo-Huguenotism in Calvinia, or more Congregationalist-style churches in North America. It is also quite a conservative Christian branch, so it isn't overly popular in Western Europe, hence the need for a single archdiocese for several countries.
The biggest growth overall is coming mainly in the Former Soviet Union, Romance-speaking Africa, and Canada. The former Soviet Union because that's where it started, and there is a heavy tendency for the churches switching over to Reformed Apostolicism to be Eastern Orthodox, which is why they had such a to-do with the Patriarch of Moscow to begin with. In Romance-speaking Africa (most noticeable in the western and northern Zambezi Republic and the western Akan Empire) most of the switchovers are dissatisfied Catholics. In Canada it's a bit of both although the slight majority of them are Eastern Orthodox (especially Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox) who want to maintain some of the cultural trappings of Orthodoxy but go in a slightly more Biblical direction.
The Vatican has the same stance towards RAC that it does towards Eastern Orthodoxy; as for Eastern Orthodoxy, they consider RAC a "divergent but non-heretical autocephalous church" and - with the exception of Russia - are in full fellowship. Russia is in partial fellowship in much the same way as it was with the Protestant Church in its earliest years. The biggest issue between Nicholas and the Patriarch of Moscow is the latter, unlike the political leaders of Republican Russia, refuses to acknowledge any past wrongdoings concerning Robertian-Era or New-Troubles policies that he supported, along with a large chunk of Russian Orthodoxy. And the former maintains the hardest line on the Church only overtly backing those governmental decisions that "line up with consistent Christian hermeneutics." The PoM is on the exact opposite end of that spectrum, as much as he backs the Russian Republic and some Second Federation policies were too brutal for even him to stomach. One example that always gets dug up is the fact that he opposed the political secession of Novgorod from the fledgling Second Federation in May 2015 and that of Transcaucasia a few weeks later, even though they were for completely valid reasons.
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