One God. One Faith. One Church.
Orthodox Young Professionals stands within the canonical Orthodox Church and affirms the faith handed down by the Apostles, preserved in the Church, and proclaimed in every generation.
CORE CONFESSION
- We confess the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (381 AD), without alteration
- We confess the dogmatic and Ecumenical Councils of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- We confess the authority of Holy Scripture as interpreted through our Holy Tradition
Essentially: The Apostolic Faith as preserved in its fullness in the Eastern Orthodox Church
OUR LIFE IN CHRIST
We believe that salvation is found in union with Jesus Christ, by participation in the sacramental life of His Church through repentance, faith, and love.
We honour Christ and His Saints — the Theotokos, the Holy Fathers, martyrs, confessors, ascetics, and every righteous spirit made perfect in faith — and receive the ascetical and liturgical life handed down to us.
We belong to the One Church, against which the gates of hell shall not prevail, passed down through the Apostles and living to this day.
We strive to live our faith as Orthodox Christians in the world, not of it — praying, working, and gathering as one body in Christ.
CLOSING AFFIRMATION
This is the Faith of the Apostles, this is the Faith of the Fathers, this is the Faith of the Orthodox.
Synodikon of Orthodoxy