Ahranaian Orthodox Church

Ahranaian Orthodox Church
Abbreviation	AOC
Classification	Orthodox
Orientation	Ahranaian Orthodox
Polity	Orthodox
Æðsti ríkisstjóri	Monarchs of the Kingdom of Ahrana
Fyrstur meðal jafningja	Karl Stephan XV, Metropolitan of Moskovo
Region	Ahrana
Founder	Apostol
Origin	1547 CE Vulga Supra, Kingdom of Xara

The Ahranaian Orthodox Church is the most populous Church in Ahrana next to the Ahranaian Orthodox Catholic Church, between the two the Churches that make up the Majority of the Populations Faith there are other Churches that have been granted the liberty to practice next to the Ahranaian Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Church is main Church of the Imperial Household and has been since the Church was founded and since Christianity was established in then Ahran.

Over the years many Kings and Queens have been crowned in the Holy Cathedral of the Orthodox Church in Moskovo by the Primate at the time, the bond of the Imperial Throne and the Throne of the Church to which Christ himself sits upon are entwined through the Crowning of the King or Queen of Ahrana. It is the belief of all Ahranaian Orthodox Faithful that the King or Queen is picked by God who picks the person to rule in his place through the teachings he has left us through the life of his Son and the Apostles.

Theology

Trinity

Orthodox Christians believe in the Trinity, three distinct, divine persons (hypostases), without overlap or modality among them, who each have one divine essence —uncreated, immaterial and eternal. These three persons are typically distinguished by their relation to each other. The Father is eternal and not begotten and does not proceed from any, the Son is eternal and begotten of the Father, and the Holy Spirit is eternal and proceeds from the Father. Orthodox doctrine regarding the Trinity is summarized in the Creed.

In discussing God's relationship to his creation, the theology distinguishes between God's eternal essence, which is totally transcendent, and his uncreated energies, which is how he reaches humanity. The God who is transcendent and the God who touches mankind are one and the same. That is, these energies are not something that proceed from God or that God produces, but rather they are God himself: distinct, yet inseparable from God's inner being.

With understanding the Trinity as "one God in three persons", the "three persons" is not to be emphasized more than "one God", and so forth. While the three persons are distinct, they are united in one divine essence, and their oneness is expressed in community and action so completely that they cannot be considered separate from one another. Their "communion of essence" is "indivisible". Trinitarian terminology—essence, hypostasis, etc.—are used "philosophically", "to answer the ideas of the heretics", and "to place the terms where they separate error and truth." The words do what they can do, but the nature of the Trinity in its fullness is believed to remain beyond man's comprehension and expression, a holy mystery that can only be experienced and one that will not be explained by the Orthodox Church.

Sin, Salvation and the Incarnation

According to the Ahranaian Orthodox faith, at some point in the beginnings of human existence, humanity was faced with a choice: to learn the difference between good and evil through observation or through participation. The biblical story of creation of mankind relates this choice by mankind to participate in evil, accomplished through disobedience to God's command. Both the intent and the action were separate from God's will; it is that separation that defines and marks any operation as sin. The separation from God caused the loss of (fall from) his grace, a severing of mankind from his creator and the source of his life. The end result was the diminishment of human nature and its subjection to death and corruption, an event commonly referred to as the "fall of man"

When the Ahranaian Orthodox Faithful refer to fallen nature they are not saying that human nature has become evil in itself. Human nature is still formed in the image of God; humans are still God's creation, and God has never created anything evil, but fallen nature remains open to evil intents and actions. It is sometimes said among the Orthodox Faithful that humans are "inclined to sin"; that is, people find some sinful things attractive. It is the nature of temptation to make sinful things seem the more attractive, and it is the fallen nature of humans that seeks or succumbs to the attraction.

Structure

The Ahranaian Orthodox Church is structured the original way it was established by the First Most Holy Governing Synod of the Ahranaian Orthodox Church. The Most Holy Governing Synod (MHGS) is chaired by the Monarchs of the Kingdom of Ahrana or the Heir to the Imperial Throne of Ahrana, the Primate of the Ahranaian Orthodox Church is the Metropolitan of Moskovo respectively as he is consider first among equals within the boarders of the Kingdom, the other Metropolitans of the Kingdom also make up the Holy Synod to form a the Governing Church Council.

Chairman of the Most Holy Synod

The Chairman of the Most Holy Synod is in respect the Monarchs of the Kingdom of Ahrana or in times when no Monarch sits upon the throne the Heirs to the Imperial Throne of Ahrana. In retrospect the Monarchs only have the ability to call forth a Council of the Holy Synod and nothing more except cast a vote in certain things. The Chairman role has stayed the same as it is today since the 1700s when the Religious Reforms of the Imperial Household of the Romano Family. After the fall of the Romano Dynasty the reforms stayed as they were needed reforms as the church held to much power and in particular the Monarch held to much power in the church.

Metropolitan of Moskovo

The Office of Metropolitan of Moskovo is the oldest Diocese inside the Kingdom of Ahrana, it is where the church was founded and decreed as the Religion of Ahrana and her peoples.