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I don't know where these converts in the Greek Church are. Does anyone know? In the West? It is certainly nothing approaching 29% in all of the Greek parishes I have been to, and I have attended Greek services in many parts of the country.

As for converts wanting more close relationships with other non-Orthodox churches, I find that frankly astounding. What kind of leading questions did they ask in the polling? Converts typically do not want much if anything to do with the church they left behind. If I found out my priests were consorting with Episcopalians and other such sinners I would want to have him horsewhipped.

As for mass conversions, well, this is a misnomer. The only "mass" conversions I am aware of was the EOC, and that was, what, 25 years ago? If there is any problem it is in the catechesis of converts. It perhaps needs to be a little more rigorous. But it is far more rigorous in any case than anything that other non-Orthodox churches require.

The big problem in the Greek Church is that the Greeks are very familiar with the outward forms but tend for the most part to be pretty uninformed and unformed about the underlying stuff.

But don't get me started on Christian formation. The best catechesis would be an intensive one-year practicum on the Ladder of Divine Ascent. But priests tend to focus on the history of the Church and its dogma and just assume that that is what makes one Orthodox. Since that's mostly the kind of training they get.