Channel
@orthodox_church
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5,768subscribers
+10 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001271334131 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @orthodox_church |
| Created | 12 January 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel) |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 16 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 16 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/orthodox_church |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Aug 2026, 22:15 | 5,768 | +10 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 08:34 | 5,758 | +11 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 01:25 | 5,747 | -14 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 10:46 | 5,761 | +3 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 17:33 | 5,758 | first reading |
55 posts held, back to 4 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 8 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views— note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate. It is computed over the 53 of 55 measured posts that carry a reaction reading, and over those same posts' views.
| Window | Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 11 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Posts held | 55 (4 August 2026 – 11 August 2026) |
| Views total | 13,239 |
| Reactions total | 347 |
| Forwards / comments | not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated |
| Readings taken | 12 Aug 2026, 03:54 UTC |
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
347 reactions across 53 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 80.1% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 278 | 80.1% | |
| 🙏 | 63 | 18.2% | |
| 💯 | 5 | 1.44% | |
| ⚡ | 1 | 0.288% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 53 of the 55 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 347reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 55 most recent posts we hold, published 4 August 2026 to 11 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
☦️ St Sava of Serbia about Confession as the necessary preparation to Communion ☦️ He who does not confess, let him not receive Communion until he comes to his senses and confesses all sinful and destructive deeds.
❤1
Signed Orthodox Christianity
It is very important to start the day right, with gratitude to God and His blessing. “The day usually begins with our awakening from sleep. How should we look upon the moment of awakening? Just as we would look upon the moment of being born into the world or upon resurrection from the dead, because there is a great similarity between awakening from sleep and being born. When we are asleep, it is as though we do not e…
❤1🙏1
Signed priest Stanislav
“If you have promised Christ to go by the strait and narrow way, restrain your stomach, because by pleasing it and enlarging it, you break your contract. Attend and you will hear Him who says: "Spacious and broad is the way of the belly that leads to the perdition of fornication, and many there are who go in by it; because narrow is the gate and strait is the way of fasting that leads to the life of purity, and few t…
❤8
Signed priest Stanislav
The belief in angels is amply attested in the Bible, both in the Old Testament and the New, and they are represented as an innumerable multitude of beings intermediate between God and man. In Genesis 32:1 the angel of God met Jacob and said “This is God’s army.” In Daniel’s vision he describes “thousands of thousands serving the One on the throne, and ten thousand times ten thousand standing before Him” (Daniel 7:1…
🙏1
Signed SamiTafesh
☦️🕯️ANGELS IN THE BIBLE🕯️☦️ ⬇️⬇️⬇️
❤3
Signed SamiTafesh
“When your own relations blame you and expose your weaknesses in the hearing of others, say to them : “I am truly such as you describe me; but it is no advantage to you that I am really such, nor that you should defame me and mock at me: to mock at the infirmity or weakness of your brother is foolish and inhuman; it is better to hide such an infirmity, because my infirmity is your infirmity, my shame is your shame;" …
❤7
Signed priest Stanislav
☦️🕯️ “Since you follow the Saviour Christ, your greatest duty is to bear all suffering, whether it comes from nature, indolence, sin, or people.”🕯️☦️ ♰ Elder Ephraim of Arizona ♰
❤6
Signed SamiTafesh
☦️☦️☦️ Jesus Christ didn't lead armies, conquer new lands, legislate, sit on a throne, decide court cases, write books, or create philosophical systems. He didn't do anything for which people are usually recognized as great. During the Renaissance, the skilled craftsmen we know — gifted but very proud men - treated the common man with disdain. They said, "We create, invent, write, draw, build, while the rest just ea…
❤7
Signed Orthodox Christianity
We can never relax. The enemy is never tired to get in the way of our salvation. “The enemy of our salvation especially strives to draw our heart and mind away from God when we are about to serve Him, and endeavours to adulterously attach our heart to something irrelevant. Be always, every moment, with God, especially when you pray to Him. At this time be especially true and constant to Him. If you are inconstant, yo…
❤10
Signed priest Stanislav
“We who are, so to speak, pious, will have more sorrow than those who are not. This is because they do not feel inner pain, they give thought not to eternity but only to things of this world: enjoyment, food, drink ... Their attention is entirely focused on this, whereas ours is divided: we want to be with the Lord, yet we have not yet let go of material things; our heart is still attached to them and we are not free…
❤3
Signed priest Stanislav
☦️🌟 St Simeon the New Theologian: True repentance with confession and tears, like some kind of plasters and medicines, washes and cleanses the wound of the heart and the very ulcer that the sting of mental death has opened to the heart.
❤9🙏1
Signed Orthodox Christianity
Sometimes grace carries us like children or guides and supports us as though by the hand. Then it is twice as easy for us to do works of virtue; whilst sometimes it leaves us alone to our weakness, in order that we should not become slothful, but should labour, and by our labour become worthy of the gift of grace. At such times we ought, as free beings, to spontaneously show our amendment and zeal to God. St. John of…
❤5🙏1
Signed priest Stanislav
Showing the 12 most recent of 55 posts we hold for @orthodox_church. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank — 309,310 of 1,549,704entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Republished by
Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
This channel appears in 2 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 16 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Ask About The Orthodox Faith” (@orthodox_church), 5,768 subscribers as measured 16 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/orthodox_church.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.