Teutonic Orthodox Church

The Teutonic Orthodox Church is a prominent religion who's main congregation are located within the Fourth German Reich and Reich controlled space, and one of the two authorized religions within the Empire, the other being Germanic Buddhism.

Origin:
After the end of the Fourth World War all forms of religion were outlawed by the Reich. Seeing this the leaders of a small sect of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church enacted several reforms to makes its teaching compatible with the doctrine of the Reich. After a direct appeal to Kaiser Hanz Wilhelm II the sect was granted Vatican City as the seat of religion as well as semi-free worship. The Kaiser himself attended the first liturgy of the Teutonic Orthodox Church at St. Peter's Basilica.

Places of Worship:
Their churches are astronomically large with polished gold and black oiled iron as decorations on all of the outside and inside interiors but what takes the eyes the most is these large pure Iron crosses with gold inlays all around it with multiple red jewels hanging underneath it to give it the *Iron and Blood* feel to it as well there are walls decorated with orthodox crosses and hand painted oil pictures of telling of God, Christ and the creation of the Teutonic Orthodox Order. There are a lot of members of these churches and whenever there is a church.

Beliefs:
As a member of the Orthodox Congregation you are expected to physically deal with issues in your life and expected to not be stupid and lazy and expect god to do it for you. They blame Catholicism and Protestantism for greatly influencing blind belief in god doing literally everything for them and be lazy and turn the cheek around. In the Teutonic Orthodox Church sin is punished, Sloth in particular. The Orthodox believe prayer without action is a form of sloth.

Teutonic Knights:
The warrior branch of the Teutonic Priesthood. These knights wear all white armor decorated with a black iron cross across the chest piece and carry a large sword called a Zweihander that serves as their badge of office. The also wear face-concealing horned helmets in the style of the Teutonic Order of Old Earth. The participle in rigorous training and prayer every day except Sunday and use intimidation and violence if necessary to deal with any threat that is posed the Teutonic Orthodox Church or its congregation. When specific acts are not required of them they are known to help out local Teutonic Orthodox communities through community service, soup kitchens, youth sports coaching and other forms of charity and community support.

Controversy:
The Teutonic Priesthood uses a form of Medieval Germanic during its sermons. This is in violation of The German Language Stratification Reform.