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Eastern Orthodoxy in Ecuador refers to adherents, communities and organizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Ecuador, canonical or not. Although the dominant religion in Ecuador is historically Roman Catholicism, in recent decades, other Christian denominations have gained adherents there, specially from Pentecostal protestant denominations.

Currently, there are two canonical Eastern Orthodox communities in Ecuador, the Serbian and Russian. Besides that, there are also two Old Calendarist, non-canonical, Orthodox communities operating in the country that belongs to Ukraine and Greece.

Although there are no exact figures for the number of Orthodox faithful in the country, according to a report by the newspaper El Universo in 2017, it is estimated that there are at least more than 400 parishioners in Guayaquil, mostly descendants of Palestinians, in addition to people converted to Orthodoxy. However, the activities of the Orthodox Church in Ecuador are few due to the growth of evangelical denominations, the entrenchment of the Roman Catholic faithful, in addition to the attempts of various jurisdictions of the Roman Catholic Church in the country to warn their parishioners of the activities of other denominations called catholic, as it has happened within the Old Catholic Church and the Episcopal Church.

Serbian

Eastern Orthodox Christianity arrived in Ecuador through the immigration of people from Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon. Many of those immigrants were Maronite Catholics, faithful to Rome who later switched to the Latin Rite after assimilation and after failed attempts to establish a Maronite Rite church. During the 1960s, a group of people from Guayaquil, descendants of Palestinians, began to organize to form an Orthodox community called Fundación Cultural Católica Apostólica Ortodoxa Santa María, whose goal was to form an Orthodox church in Guayaquil.

On December 12, 1981, the first Orthodox church in Ecuador was created under the Antiochian Patriarchate. In 2012, the church became part of the Serbian Patriarchate. Currently, the parish called "Anunciación de Santa María" is located in Central Urdesa, in Guayaquil, under the command of archimandrite Rafael Chepernich. In addition, the parish has a site where an Orthodox church has begun to be built. As of August 2020, that construction has been stopped.

Russian

Since 2007, there has been an Orthodox church that belongs to the Russian Patriarchate, it is under the command of archpriest Alexei Karpov. However, the church is ethnic since its divine liturgies are mostly performed in Russian. In 2009, during his meeting with the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill, Rafael Correa, former president of Ecuador, showed the church's intentions to build a church in Quito.

See also

• History of the Eastern Orthodox Church
• History of Eastern Christianity
• Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America

References

1. "Iglesia Ortodoxa en Ecuador". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
2. "Comunidad ortodoxa cumplió en Guayaquil con la bendición de las aguas". El Universo (in Spanish). 2017-01-20. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
3. "'Viejos católicos' dan misas y levantan polémica en Norte de Guayaquil". El Universo (in Spanish). 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
4. Diócesis de Santo Domingo en Ecuador (9 October 2017). "Carta Pastoral _ Sobre el Trato con Anglicanos, Episcopalianos y Veterocatòlicos". Youtube.
5. Almeida, Mónica (1997). "Los sirio-libaneses en el espacio social ecuatoriano : cohesión étnica y asimilación cultural". Journal de la société des américanistes. 83 (1): 201–227. doi:10.3406/jsa.1997.1677.
6. "Fundacion Ortodoxa Santa María Guayaquil". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
7. "Fundacion Ortodoxa Santa María Guayaquil". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
8. "Terminar iglesia, anhelo de los ortodoxos guayaquileños". El Universo (in Spanish). 2015-05-29. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
9. "Padre ortodoxo bendijo sitio donde estará iglesia en Guayaquil". El Universo (in Spanish). 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2020-08-21.

• Eastern Orthodoxy in Ecuador