Nationalities

[paleodoxy]

OK, I thought it would be cool if we exchanged a little info. I'd like to be more familiar with those I interact with, so here are three questions:

Which of you are cradle Orthodox vs. converts?
To what Orthodox jurisdiction do you belong?
What is your nationality?

I'll start.

Convert
Antiochian Orthodox
American (Texas)

 

[Andrew21091]

Convert
Antiochian Orthodox
American (Michigan) Heritage: Mainly Polish with Scottish, English, German, and a few others.

 

[fuerein]

Neither yet, plan on starting to attend, hopefully regularly, starting this Sunday.

The Parish I plan to attend is OCA.

My last name is Scottish, so I imagine some of that, my great-grandmother is German, and farther back I seem to recall an Irish name in the family tree... Yup, American sums it best.

 

[Thekla]

Convert
GOA
USA - mutt
(including Greek)

 

[paleodoxy]

Oh, and feel free to add where you converted from.

I converted from Anglicanism.

 

[Friul]

Convert(ing)
Serbian Orthodox Church
Friulian and Provençal
Roman Catholicism

 

[silouanathonite]

Convert - Agnostic
Antiochian (for Divine Liturgy), but I also attend OCA. I'll go to any Orthodox Church regardless of jurisdiction.
Jamaican, became a US citizen when I was 21.

Any other Jamaican Orthodox in the room?

 

[Mary of Bethany]

Convert from Baptist & Anglican
OCA
Texan (America)

Mary

 

[Orthosdoxa]

Hey, this is a good thread! Learned something - I didn't know SA was Jamaican - cool! (people often have flags of countries they've never been to here)

Convert from super fundie Baptist
Antiochian Orthodox
American of mixed western European decent (Washington)

 

[paleodoxy]

We could really get nit-picky, and I could tell you that I'm 5th generation Croatian American.

 

[Protoevangel]

Convert from Confessional Lutheranism.
I truly despise jurisdictionalism. I am (soon will be) simply Orthodox. My parish is under an Antiochian Bishop.
Citizen of the Heavenly Jerusalem. I am passing through as a temporary citizen of the US. Heinz 57, mostly European, some Cherokee.

 

[seashale76]

Convert from Pentecostalism/Southern Baptist/Mega-Church

Antiochian Orthodox

American (KY): The easy answer is that I'm a US national and all sides of my family have been in North America since before the US was a nation. A lady at church once asked me my ethnicity hoping I'd say Greek or Lebanese or something else like Irish, I'm sure, and I just stared at her for a minute and told her I was American. Anything past that gets complicated and involves breaking out the geneaology research.

 

[-Kyriaki-]

Convert(ing) from evangelical protestant
Attend an Antiochian church for services (usually) but my SF is Greek
Australian: Cornish (not english!), lots of German, bits of lots of other things. Absolutely no Greek, whatever the people at the Greek parish keep assuming - lol!

 

[nutroll]

Cradle
Antiochian
American (German, Scottish, English descent)

 

[paleodoxy]

ya gotta love nutrolls get-ups.

 

[Oblio]

Convert - ex Southern Baptist, raised Congregationalist

OCA - Diocese of the South

American(GA) - Mix of French/English

 

[kamikat]

convert from Roman Catholicism
OCA
I say half Greek/half Italian, but my dad's mother was raised in an orphanage and has no idea what her heritage is. She became honorary Greek when she married my popou.

 

[SeraphimSarov]

Converted from Roman Catholicism. Had this stuff with the Latin Mass came out sooner, I might not even be here. Clearly God had better plans.

Attend an Antiochian parish. I agree with a previous poster... in the end, I'm just Orthodox.

Born American, though much of my Italian/Sicilian heritage survives to this day. Except the Roman Catholicism, of course.

 

[Sokol]

Convert from Roman Catholicism
OCA
American - (German, Ruthenian, Irish grandparents)

 

[SeekingTheLight]

I guess eventually I'll be...

Convert from the Church of Christ
Don't know which particular church I'll attend...yet.
I'm American (1/2 Polish) living in Virginia, but really a TEXAN!!!