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A '''Traditionalist''' Orthodox Christian holds very strictly to a narrowly defined understanding of Orthodox [[Tradition]]. The name tends to be self-applied. Views held by traditionalists sometimes include:
* a preference for the [[Old Calendar]] to the exclusion of the [[New Calendar|New]];
* a literal understanding of patristic texts and a resulting desire to reconcile differences among the [[Church Fathers]];* a tendency to [[schism]] in response to inferred [[heresy]];* a desire to preserve the piety and theological opinions of a particular region or era, e.g., eighteenth century Russia or Greece;* a disdain for any and all forms of [[ecumenism]];
* a belief that the particular, narrowly defined tradition with which one identifies is true, exclusive of any other interpretations or traditions.
