Background before Orthodox

[Soderquj]

Mormon- Orthodox

 

[charsan]

"Catholic service with Roman Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian clergy jointly participating together"

Is that allowed for Roman Catholics??

I think @charsan is part of the Charismatic Episcopal Church.

Yes I am. I am studying to be a Priest in the CEC which is going slowly. I was Evangelical -> Catholic -> CEC

 

[~Anastasia~]

Raised mostly Baptist with a little UPC Pentecostal influence.

Explored what seems like almost everything with varying degrees of interest.

But mostly Baptist - Methodist, varying Pentecostal and non-denom - particular affinity for AoG, messianic, Foursquare, and Vineyard - started investigating Anglican and Lutheran (and Catholicism but only for informational purposes) ... and finally Orthodox, thank God.

There were others of lesser duration or again, just informationally (such as Mormonism).

 

[Knee V]

Generic Non-denominational growing up. Reformed (PCA) in my teens until I was 21. I attended a Catholic parish for about 9 months and attended my first Orthodox Liturgy when I was 22. I was received into the Church at 23.

 

[E.C.]

Raised Roman Catholic in the Irish tradition. My stepmom became Orthodox in the 1980s, eventually when she and my dad married, he became Orthodox. Sometime later I read Timothy Ware's "The Orthodox Church" and was sold. I was chrismated in 2006 when I was sixteen.

 

[Mary of Bethany]

Baptist until my late 30s, then 10 years as a traditional Anglican while discovering Orthodoxy. Chrismated in 2001.

 

[JohnTh]

Yes, born orthodox.

 

[~Anastasia~]

Yes, born orthodox.

I remember I asked our Confessor when he visited if he had always been Orthodox.

He said "no, I was born and then I was baptized".

 

[Lukaris]

Raised in a merged Methodist/Presbyterian church. Estranged to varying degrees from Christianity for about 25 years. In 2003 rediscovered the Gospel drifting from Landmark Baptist to 4 Square Pentecostal for a year. In 2004 I was supposed to be baptized into the Pentecostal church but I balked. Instead I just decided to investigate the Orthodox parish my father had originally been raised in but his father had separated from in the 1940s (although my grandmother, who I did not know, had rejoined). I never looked back & was baptized & chrismated in 2005 on Holy Saturday before Pascha.