How many are there?

[MattMMMan17]

Greetings brethren, I was just wondering if there was a site someone could point me to, or perchance if anyone knew how many people in the world are Eastern Orthodox, including all of the subdivisions and all. Thanks for any response.

 

[Philip]

about 300 million, I think

 

[Orthodox Andrew]

about 300 million, I think

That's about right.

 

[II Paradox II]

That's about right.

The last statistic I had heard placed it closer to 500 million, but perhaps it was off...

ken

 

[II Paradox II]

The last statistic I had heard placed it closer to 500 million, but perhaps it was off...

oops... nevermind... my memory was just off... the statistic I read was closer to 300 million.

ken

 

[MattMMMan17]

ahh goodstuff k thanks

 

[Oblio]

Orthodox by Country

 

[Oblio]

Barrett shows 218,501,000 in mid-2003 with a publish date of Jan 2003 (so it is an estimate), 215,129,000 (I assume that is actual) at mid-2000 with a 0.52 per annum growth rate.

 

[Philip]

Oblio,
Does that include the OO?

 

[Orthodox Andrew]

The OO?

 

[Oblio]

Oooooo ... Good question

 

[MariaRegina]

Oooooo ... Good question

On one site the Oriental Orthodox were not included.
If you do a search, JefftheFinn did some researching with us earlier last year.

 

[Oblio]

I am thinking it does. In their database section the list for example the Ethiopian OC as part of the Orthodox megablock and the Christian Tradition as Ethiopic, Alexandrian rite

 

[Oblio]

Our friends the Coptic Orthodox (USA only) are listed here as Orthodox with 120,000 members.

 

[Polycarp1]

Oblio, your link to Orthodox by Country came up with an error page -- apparently it was looking for the cookie you set when you (or someone) did the search originally. Could you C&P the information here?

 

[Oblio]

Odd. I did not build a query via forms but simply clicked on a link that had query preset. Here is the page (BTW, there is an Anglican query link at the top of the Megablocs)

http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/esweb.asp?WCI=Home&WCE=10&AutoLogin=1

 

[MariaRegina]

Odd. I did not build a query via forms but simply clicked on a link that had query preset. Here is the page (BTW, there is an Anglican query link at the top of the Megablocs)

http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/esweb.asp?WCI=Home&WCE=10&AutoLogin=1

I guess it has to do with our personal browser -- I also get the error message.

 

[Oblio]

Go tho the root URL and selct denominations on the left.

 

[MariaRegina]

http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/

Thanks Chris, this worked.