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: The 60k to 100k figure comes from [http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=interview&div=51 an interview with ROCOR spokesman Fr. Alexander Lebedev]. I have my doubts that he gets his jurisdiction's statistics from the OCA. —[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 18:50, May 30, 2007 (PDT)
Fr. Alexander is a good man, but, he is not the official spokesman the Church. He just speaks alot! :){{unsigned|Slava}}
== You logic is flawed Fr. Andrei ==
The ROCOR Church in Brooklyn was established to care for 11,000 Russians in Brooklyn who expressed interest in starting a church closer to where they live. Several thousand were present for Pascha last year.
The Cathedral in San Francisco has several thousand as well, these are two parishes (you do the math.) {{unsigned|Slava}} : *shrug* I have no idea what you've seen, nor who you are (though I do have some reason to doubt that you've seen all 400 or 775 of ROCOR's parishes). All I know is that the man whom the ROCOR appointed as the secretary of the commission which negotiated the union with the MP said one thing, and an anonymous editor on this wiki is saying another. Fr. Alexander has much more credibility on this matter, methinks. : Even Fr. Alexey Young's 1993 history of the ROCOR says that "the figure probably does not exceed 50,000 worldwide" (p. 108). I find it hard to believe that the ROCOR has grown by 1,450,000 people in the 12 years since it was published. : The links you post here are interesting, but none are even statements from anyone in the ROCOR. We need verifiable, published statements by authoritative figures for stuff like this, not estimates in news sources, some of which are entirely anonymous. : By the way, if you're a Greek, why did you change my name to "Fr. '''Andrei'''"? Heheh. ;) —[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] <sup>[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]</sup> <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]]</small> 19:24, May 30, 2007 (PDT) (a.k.a. Πάτερ Ανδρέας)
