6 Million American Orthodox? The Real Story - Matthew Namee

About this episode

Matthew Namee joins Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick to discuss the surge in American Orthodox Christians and the history of how they have been counted.

There are memes and headlines going around tracking a change from 700,000 American Orthodox Christians in 2020 to 6 million in 2024. With the convert surge going on, this sounds... plausible? Matthew Namee joins Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick to talk about not only whether those numbers really make sense but also the history of how Orthodox Christians in America have been counted. He also unpacks for us his discoveries about the demographics of Orthodox in America, culled from studies of the general American population.

People in this episode

Host: Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Guest: Matthew Namee

Topics covered

• Orthodox Christianity
• demographics
• American religion
• convert surge
• historical counting

Keywords

• Orthodox Christians
• demographics
• convert surge
• American Orthodox
• religion statistics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American Orthodox Christians

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