>>22790029My point is that if we're going based on nationality being the determining factor for which religion you follow and the validity of it, then my Church being founded by St Peter the Apostle (Antioch) predates the evangelization of the Rus by 1000 years. So in that case you'd be the larper.
Good thing that's not the case, and American Orthodox are just as much the Body of Christ as Russian Orthodox.
Here, have this quote from St John of Shanghai and San Francisco (yes, the American San Francisco)
also this post's image is the interior dome of a monastery in Ohio:
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