Difference between revisions of "Category:Controversial saints"

This page is for those individuals officially glorified as saints by some synods claiming to be True Orthodox, whose sanctity is disputed by other jurisdictions, or who are widely venerated as saints within True Orthodoxy but this is controversial. Inclusion on this list does not constitute a comment on sainthood; it merely points out that there are some who contest it.

1. Saints accepted by the ancient church and ecumenical councils—such as St. Augustine—are not controversial for the purpose of this wiki even if some may choose not to accept them.
2. Individuals outside the Orthodox Church or what purports to be the Eastern Orthodox Church are not counted among the saints at all and are not included in this list. Veneration of heretics—such as post-schism Roman Catholics—within World Orthodoxy does not merit their inclusion here.
3. Those whose ecclesiastical situation was unclear for some reason, may be included here.
   1. This includes cases where True Orthodox and World Orthodox are fighting over which body a saint belonged to. Even if the answer may be clear to readers of this wiki, the widespread circulation of documents claiming otherwise constitutes a controversy.
4. The scope of this list is intentionally quite wide.