Yet it's orthodox Christianity's sense of serious purpose, of unvarying theology, that is attracting a growing number of Christians put off by changes in their own congregations.

“Christianity is growing primarily in Africa and Asia and the Orthodox are not strong enough in those parts of the world to keep up with the demographic challenge of growth,” Kishkovsky says. Today, Orthodox Christianity’s largest communities exist primarily in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, though there are also sizable communities in North America, Western Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, primarily through immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also through a growing number of converts to the faith. Conversions to the ancient faith of Orthodox Christianity now make up nearly half of the one million Orthodox Christians in the United States. Pew Research Center released an article in 2017 which talks about participation trends across all of Christianity in the 21st century. This is the doctrine of the Incarnation, that God became a man… Main articles: Jesus Christ, ChristologyThe second person of the Holy Trinity, the Son of God, begotten before all ages by the Father without a mother, was begotten in time by the Virgin Mary the Theotokos without a father. Orthodox Christianity, the study finds, is growing at a faster rate in Africa than in Europe. Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. r/OrthodoxChristianity: A subreddit dedicated to discussion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. He is the Logos, the Word of God, and he became flesh and dwelt among us, as says the beginning of the Gospel of John. "It takes immigrant communities a little while to establish a religious community," Krindatch said. Both churches began with a small number of parishes in 2000 and are supported by a community of established Eastern European immigrants. Two of these church bodies--the Bulgarian Orthodox Eastern Diocese and the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese--experienced a growth rate of over 100 percent. While the majority of those conversions are through marriage, a growing number of people who are neither culturally nor ethnically Greek are converting based on their affinity for the ancient faith. Some 15 percent of the world’s Orthodox now reside in Africa, with 14 percent of that number, or 36 million, living in Ethiopia, the nation with the second largest number of Orthodox Christians in the world.