Talk:Mar Thoma Church
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Ukranian Lutheran Church is an Eastern Rite Church???
Quoted from the first paragraph of the article, Prior to 1996, it was the only Eastern rite Church worldwide which inculcated elements of Protestant thinking and reformist theology (the Ukrainian Lutheran Church was established in Ukraine after the fall of the Soviet Union
I didn't want to be mean and take out the Ukranian part that's in this sentancebefore checking with some more people. In fact, I'm not really even sure that the Mar Thoma Church's claim to being the only reformed Eastern Rite church is valid, although it is commonly professed. Maybe this sentance altogether should be removed. However, back to the point - the fact that the Ukranian Church is LUTHERAN precludes it from being an Eastern Rite Church. Lutheranism is quintessential western Christianity. Geography is not the only consideration (i.e. Ukraine is in Eastern Europe ergo it is an Eastern Rite church). Case in point, there are Baptist and Methodist churches in India but they aren't considered eastern. Even the Church of South India and Church of North India, though they are in full communion with the Mar Thoma Church, aren't considered eastern churches.
76.186.60.18 23:02, 28 November 2006 (UTC)sue bob murphy
what about these: Armenian Evangelical Church Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Russia Evangelical Church of Egypt (Synod of the Nile) Jamiat-e Rabbani all of which are listed on eastern protestant here: Portal:Eastern Christianity/Churches
Most of those church are under the section Eastern Protestantism. 76.186.60.18 03:33, 26 December 2006 (UTC)sue bob murphy
[edit] External links
Listing individual parishes and youth groups within parishes seems contrary to WP:EL. Most parishes are in the first directory link. Furthermore, if some are listed then there is no strong reason not to list them all, which would result in a far-too-large External links section. Gimmetrow 04:48, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move of interest
In case anyone here wants to weigh in, Eastern Rite Catholic Churches → Eastern Catholic Churches: See Talk:Eastern Rite Catholic Churches. Fishhead64 07:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
