see Eastern Orthodox Church & St. Mark stuff in AtD, 800s--900s

[Mark Kohut]

--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net> wrote:

> Doesn't sound like the Orthodox Church of which I've heard
> tell... Could you elucidate? 
> Ray

This is all from wikipedia:
The Eastern Orthodox understand themselves to be the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; the true Church established by Jesus Christ and placed into the care of the apostles. As almost all other Christian groups are in indirect schism with the Eastern Orthodox Church, mostly as a result of the Great Schism with the Roman Catholic Church at the turn of the second Christian millennium (prior to the additional schisms of the Protestant Reformation), these other groups are viewed as being Christian, but who in varying degrees lack full theological orthodoxy and orthopraxy. As such, all groups outside of the Eastern Orthodox Church are not seen as being members of the Church proper, but rather separated brethren who have failed to retain the fullness of the Christian faith as was given to the apostles by Jesus Christ. These deviations from orthodoxy have traditionally been called heresy, but due to the term's immediately pejorative connotations, some
 prefer the more technical designation of the term heterodoxy.



Coptic Church tradition additionally states that Mark is the one who hosted the disciples in his house after the death of Jesus, into whose house the resurrected Jesus Christ came (John 20), and into whose house the Holy Spirit descended on the disciples at Pentecost.[citation needed] Mark is also believed to be one of the servants at the Marriage at Cana who poured out the water that Jesus turned to wine (John 2:1-11),[14] and was one of the Seventy Apostles sent out by Christ (Luke 10:1).[14]

According to the Coptic church, Saint Mark was born in the Pentapolis of North Africa. This tradition adds that he returned to Pentapolis later in life after being sent by Saint Paul to Colosse (Colossians 4:10) and serving with him in Rome (Phil 24; 2 Tim 4:11) ; from Pentapolis he made his way to Alexandria.[15] When Mark returned to Alexandria, the people there are said to have resented his efforts to turn them away from the worship of their traditional Egyptian gods.[citation needed] In AD 68 they placed a rope around his neck and dragged him through the streets until he was dead.[16]

And in there in AtD, and somwhere on the wiki, I think...(I hope I posted it)...there is TRP riffing on direct writing down of JC stuff, not retranslating from other stroytellers......

nice P theme............... 






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