Orthodox church taking it one step at a time for a permanent home

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Next year. Or by Christmas. Or by Easter, churchgoers say. That’s when they’ll be able to move into their church.

Dan Beck, a member of the Prophet Elijah Antiochian Orthodox Christian Mission, has been helping build the new Ellensburg church for a few years, said he’s heard “next year” a few times.

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The basics of Orthodox Christianity

Eastern Orthodox churches have roots in the earliest days of Christianity, and existed alongside what grew into the Roman Catholic Church for centuries until the Great Schism in 1054. At that time, many of the churches in the western half of the old Roman Empire accorded the bishop of Rome — the pope — supremacy over other bishops. The result was a split between eastern and western churches.

The autonomous churches that constitute Eastern Orthodoxy are organized along mostly national lines. In the United States, they’re often organized around the national backgrounds of different ethnic groups, such as the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and the Orthodox Church in America, which includes people of Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian and Syrian descent.

The churches recognize the patriarch of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) as their leader. He convenes councils, but his authority is otherwise that of a “first among equals.”

Eastern orthodox churches include the Greek Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church and Ellensburg’s Antiochian Orthodox Church.

The churches have their own disciplines on matters such as married clergy; a married man may be ordained, but a priest may not marry after ordination.

— Associated Press

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Find service times and contact information for the Prophet Elijah Antiochian Orthodox Christian Mission church in Ellensburg online at http://prophetelijah.net.