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The twentieth century, Greeks and Arabs The Orthodox Church of today exists in two contrasting situations: outside the communist sphere lie the four ancient Patriarchates and Greece, under communism are the Slav Churches and Romania. Whereas communism only impinges upon the periphery of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant worlds, in the case of the Orthodox Church the vast majority of its members live in a communist state. At the present moment there are probably between sixty and ninety million practicing Orthodox . the number of baptized Orthodox is considerably higher . and of these more than eighty-five per cent are in communist countries. Following this obvious line of division, in this chapter we shall consider the Orthodox Churches outside the communist bloc, and in the next the position of Orthodoxy in the .second world.. A third chapter is devoted to the Orthodox .dispersion. in other places, and to Orthodox missionary activities at the present time. Of the seven Orthodox Churches not under communist rule, four . Constantinople, Greece, Cyprus, Sinai . are predominantly or exclusively Greek; one . Alexandria . is partly Greek, partly Arab and African; the remaining two . Antioch and Jerusalem . are mainly Arab, al- though at Jerusalem. the higher administration of the Church is in Greek hands.
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