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Irlanda, irlandezii recunosc in Ortodoxie Biserica lor stramoseasca, Ortodoxia in Irlanda, periculul islamic in Europa
De citit la sfarsit si comentariile vesticilor la articolul de pe Journey to Orthodoxy despre faptul ca irlandezii recunosc in Ortodoxie Adevarul si Biserica stramoseasca a Sfantului Patrik, protectorul lor din vechime, dar sunt „horifiati” de invazia islamista a imigrantilor in masa…:
According to the latest 2011 census there are over 45 thousand Orthodox Christians in Ireland, reports Interfax-Religion.
This figure is two times larger than it was in 2006 and four times larger than in 2002. Thus according to the official data Orthodoxy is the fastest growing religion in Ireland, says the website Russianireland.com.
The largest center of Orthodoxy in the country is Swords, the county town of Fingal, where 1168 Orthodox Christians reside according to the 2011 census data.
The census also showed that the majority of the Orthodox Christians in Ireland are Romanians (26%), followed by Irish (20%) and Latvians (12.5%).
“Orthodoxy is not something new or strange In Ireland; it has always existed here. It is well-known that Irish Christianity before the 11th century was very similar to ours. But after Ireland was conquered by the British this denomination had been intentionally removed by the Pope. That is probably why many Irish perceive Orthodoxy as something special and dear”,
said the Rector of the Patriarchal representation of the Russian Orthodox Church in Dublin, priest Michael Nasonov.
According to him, there are seven parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate in Ireland already.
The most common religion in Ireland is Roman Catholicism (3.86 million people, 84.2% of the population), followed by Protestantism (over 134 thousand people) and Islam (over 49 thousand people).
SURSA: http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/57148.htm via http://journeytoorthodoxy.com/2013/07/10/number-of-orthodox-christians-in-ireland-doubles-in-five-years/
Comments
Being of Irish extraction myself, it was with some interest I read this article. Many people would be surprised to know that Orthodoxy is growing in Ireland at the rate it is, though on closer examination it is perhaps, not so surprising. As we all know and for reasons that need no reiterating here, the Catholic Church in Ireland now has an image problem comparable with that of British beef after Mad Cow Disease, and unsurprisingly while Ireland is still 84% Catholic on paper, the number of practicing Catholics has plummeted.
I think Orthodoxy’s appeal to the Irish is that it is not perceived as ‘alien’ the way that Pentecostalism and other evangelical Protestant denominations would be. Indeed many more of the more historically knowledgeable would simply see it as the Church as St Patrick and the other Celtic saints knew it.
The fact that there are so many adherents to Islam in Ireland is horrifying. Mass immigration is a double-edged sword, for sure.
Any inforamtion on what the actual numbers are for the Orthodox?
AMEN Ben, but they [Islam] are gaining strength in this country as well and it is indeed horrifying.
This is great news. May the Lord continue to restore Orthodox-Catholic Christianity to his green isle.
Those who call themselves Islamicists are indeed horrifying. They move in with mass immigration, take over an apartment building, then a town, then a major region , then a country–and Europe SLEEPS while this is happening. I have to hand it to one Orthodox Priest I heard saying ” We do NOT worship the same “god” as Islam. The fruits of that culture should be obvious but the snooze alarm has been hit over and over. It is horrifying! ” Amen to that. Dear Eastern Brethren of Orthodoxy–continue to speak the truth. God have mercy on all Christians and Jews. The Gospel of Jesus is the Truth—not the sword of mohammed.