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style="white-space: nowrap;">Orientation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charismatic_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Charismatic Movement">Charismatic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">Evangelical</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_polity" title="Ecclesiastical polity">Polity</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Episcopal_polity" title="Episcopal polity">Episcopal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Bishop</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jerold_Gliege&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jerold Gliege (page does not exist)">Jerold Gliege</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Churches</th><td class="infobox-data">120<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span 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nowrap;">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Peter_E._Gillquist" title="Peter E. Gillquist">Peter E. Gillquist</a>, other unnamed Former Campus Crusade for Christ members</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Origin</th><td class="infobox-data">1979</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Official website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.evangelicalorthodox.org/">www<wbr />.evangelicalorthodox<wbr />.org</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3555768#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Evangelical Orthodox Church</b> (<b>EOC</b>), founded on January 15, 1979, is an <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Protestant_Christianity" title="Eastern Protestant Christianity">Eastern Protestant</a> <a href="/wiki/Christian_denomination" title="Christian denomination">Christian denomination</a> established by former leaders of <a href="/wiki/Cru_(Christian_organization)" title="Cru (Christian organization)">Campus Crusade for Christ</a>, who, reacting against the <a href="/wiki/Jesus_movement" title="Jesus movement">Jesus People movement</a>, developed their own synthesis of <a href="/wiki/Evangelicalism" title="Evangelicalism">Evangelicalism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">Eastern Orthodoxy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Shepherding_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Shepherding Movement">Shepherding Movement</a> principles.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foundation">Foundation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Foundation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On January 14, 1979, the six members of the General Apostolic Council of the <a href="/wiki/New_Covenant_Apostolic_Order" title="New Covenant Apostolic Order">New Covenant Apostolic Order</a> (NCAO)—Peter Gillquist, Jack Sparks, Jon Braun, J.R. Ballew, Gordon Walker, and Kenneth Berven—stood in a circle and self-ordained and proclaimed each other bishops.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following day they announced the formation of a new denomination—the Evangelical Orthodox Church—consisting of congregations following the NCAO.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to NCAO leaders, the EOC was launched with 2,500 members in fifty churches organized into seventeen dioceses.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, former members reported the membership as less than 1,000.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Controversies">Controversies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The EOC generated controversy throughout its short history, mostly regarding its view of <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_succession" title="Apostolic succession">apostolic succession</a> and of apostolic authority. In mainstream Eastern Orthodoxy the hierarchy of authority is based on belief in an unbroken line of apostolic succession, from which the appointment of bishops proceeds. Jack Sparks argued that any attempt to trace such a succession inevitably included false apostles and bad men. In place of the Eastern Orthodox tradition of apostolic succession, Sparks argued for "charismatic" succession.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The EOC was itself criticized by both secular and evangelical sources for the bishops’ exercise of binding authority over members.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The EOC was plagued with internal problems, one notable case involving disclosure of confidential communications from a penitent in <a href="/wiki/Confession" title="Confession">confession</a> which was taken to civil court. In that case the <a href="/wiki/California_Courts_of_Appeal" title="California Courts of Appeal">California Courts of Appeal</a> denied the EOC leaders’ legal claim to <a href="/wiki/Priest%E2%80%93penitent_privilege" title="Priest–penitent privilege">ecclesiastical privilege</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dialogues">Dialogues</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Dialogues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1977, the first contact with the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a> was initiated through Orthodox seminarian and former Berkeley <a href="/wiki/Christian_World_Liberation_Front" title="Christian World Liberation Front">Christian World Liberation Front</a> member Karl "John Bartke", who introduced them to Fr. <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Schmemann" title="Alexander Schmemann">Alexander Schmemann</a>, Dean of <a href="/wiki/St._Vladimir%27s_Orthodox_Theological_Seminary" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary">St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Orthodox_Church_in_America" title="Orthodox Church in America">Orthodox Church in America</a> (OCA).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> EOC leaders invited seminary faculty to instruct them in Orthodoxy and pursued dialogues with the OCA from 1978 to 1983, but talks broke down because of the EOC’s divergent conception of church government.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> EOC leaders also opened dialogue with the <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Archdiocese_of_America" title="Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America">Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America</a> in 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1984 the bishops applied for the EOC's membership in the <a href="/wiki/National_Association_of_Evangelicals" title="National Association of Evangelicals">National Association of Evangelicals</a>. Their application was tabled over concerns by members of the executive committee concerning the EOC’s teachings and practices.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Growing impatient with the lack of progress in dialogues with the OCA and Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the EOC bishops travelled to <a href="/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a> where they were turned away and not given an audience with the <a href="/wiki/Ecumenical_Patriarch_of_Constantinople" title="Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople">Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Orthodox sources have stated that the two primary reasons why the collective <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a> was hesitant to embrace the EOC were the continued influence of Shepherding Movement teachings regarding hierarchical authority and the EOC bishops’ desire to remain as bishops, which was unacceptable as Eastern Orthodox bishops must be celibate and appointed by the appropriate authorities through standard procedure based on apostolic succession. It was unthinkable that any Eastern Orthodox Church patriarch would agree to these terms.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Disposition_of_parishes">Disposition of parishes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Disposition of parishes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fr. John Bartke, who had been a member of the Christian World Liberation Front with Jack Sparks and had acted as the primary intermediary with the AOCANA, served as host for the initial set of chrismations and ordinations of the EOC at St. Michael's Church in Van Nuys, California.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The group of 20 parishes became known as the Antiochian Evangelical Orthodox Mission, which subsequently issued a statement to <a href="/wiki/Philip_Saliba" title="Philip Saliba">Metropolitan Philip</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Antiochian_Orthodox_Christian_Archdiocese_of_North_America" title="Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America">Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America</a> stating that they knew what Orthodoxy was. The Antiochian Evangelical Orthodox Mission lasted until 1995 when it was disbanded and the parishes put under the standard diocesan framework of the archdiocese.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conversion_to_Eastern_Orthodoxy">Conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On September 8, 1986, the majority of the EOC became part of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America under Metropolitan Philip Saliba. The bishops of the EOC who joined were demoted to the rank of priests—a requirement by the Antiochian Archdiocese which caused some EOC bishops to refrain from joining. According to Peter Gillquist, about three-fourths of the bishops accepted Metropolitan Philips' terms and joined, a total of 17 parishes.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Peter Gillquist said to the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a>, "We will not be a ‘church within a church.' Metropolitan Philip wants us to maintain our evangelical identity and to concentrate on evangelism and building mission churches."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern-day">Modern-day</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Modern-day"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the EOC's official website, as of September of 2024 it consists of five churches: three in the United States, and one each in Canada and Sweden. The EOC is overseen by a synod of bishops currently consisting of: Bp. Jakob Palm (Saskatoon, Canada), Bp. Thomas Andersson (Halmstad, Sweden), Bp. Mike Quigley (Brookfield, Missouri), and Bp. Joshua Beecham, presiding (Indianapolis, Indiana). Over 200 African parishes that had belonged to the EOC were released in August of 2024 on the grounds that the EOC did not have the resources to care for them properly.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Views_on_orthodoxy">Views on orthodoxy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Views on orthodoxy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The official EOC website says,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>We believe that apostolic succession is primarily a matter of holding apostolic faith...</li> <li>We believe that the traceable lineage of bishops is one aspect of apostolic succession but not the exclusive condition upon which apostolic succession rests.</li> <li>We have retained our self-governing status in order to avoid being required to follow some other ethnic expression of the faith rather than an indigenous and culturally authentic one.</li></ul> <p>The EOC today is not in communion with nor recognized by any <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/African_Orthodox_Church" title="African Orthodox Church">African Orthodox Church</a> – American Christian denomination, 1918-</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duane_Pederson" title="Duane Pederson">Duane Pederson</a> – American Christian leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_Catholicism" title="Independent Catholicism">Independent Catholicism</a> – Religious movement</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independent_sacramental_movement" title="Independent sacramental movement">Independent sacramental movement</a> – A collection of liturgical Christian denominations that are not members of traditional denominations</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 26,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=evangelicalorthodox&rft.atitle=www.evangelicalorthodox.org&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.evangelicalorthodox.org%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEvangelical+Orthodox+Church" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Gillquist, Rev. Peter E. <i>Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith</i>. Ben Lomond, CA: Conciliar Press, 1989. (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9622713-3-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-9622713-3-0">0-9622713-3-0</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Evangelical_Orthodox_Church&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.evangelicalorthodox.org/_files/ugd/daf14b_4db5c101766e45f186e7624cdf74b3b4.pdf?index=true">History of the EOC (from the perspective of the EOC)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141006091752/http://www.ogreatmystery.com/about/">About the Evangelical Orthodox Church</a>, a site by former members</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120419025427/http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/033.htm">The Chicago Call</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101119120714/http://arcchurch.org/about/history-of-the-arc/">History of the ARC</a>, a communion with roots in the NCAO</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.twelvetribes.com/">Twelve Tribe community</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050822092938/http://www.twelvetribes.com/">Archived</a> August 22, 2005, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> founded by former NCAO apostle Elbert Spriggs</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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