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Orthodox Ethos

@theorthodoxethos

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8,482subscribers

-1 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001535195595
TypeChannel
Username@theorthodoxethos
Created26 June 2021measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live15 September 2026
Measurements held13
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 15 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/theorthodoxethos

Topic

Religion — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 11 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.

Growth

8,4558,4868,470.56 August 2026 — 8,483 subscribers7 August 2026 — 8,479 subscribers10 August 2026 — 8,478 subscribers14 August 2026 — 8,480 subscribers17 August 2026 — 8,486 subscribers20 August 2026 — 8,485 subscribers24 August 2026 — 8,469 subscribers27 August 2026 — 8,455 subscribers30 August 2026 — 8,456 subscribers2 September 2026 — 8,466 subscribers7 September 2026 — 8,465 subscribers12 September 2026 — 8,477 subscribers15 September 2026 — 8,482 subscribers8,4826 August 202615 September 2026
13 measurements spanning 40 days, net -1. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 8,450–8,491 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
15 Sept 2026, 20:388,482+5
12 Sept 2026, 02:368,477+12
7 Sept 2026, 23:398,465-1
2 Sept 2026, 21:068,466+10
30 Aug 2026, 11:128,456+1
27 Aug 2026, 05:178,455-14
24 Aug 2026, 14:578,469-16
20 Aug 2026, 13:048,485-1
17 Aug 2026, 11:148,486+6
14 Aug 2026, 08:388,480+2
10 Aug 2026, 19:178,478-1
7 Aug 2026, 21:048,479-4
6 Aug 2026, 22:318,483first reading

Engagement

55 posts held, back to 26 July 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 24 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

ERR · 30 days
11.0%
avg views ÷ 8,482 subscribers
Avg views / post
935
10 posts measured
Reaction rate
1.29%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
10
of 55 held

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.

What these figures were computed from
WindowRolling 30 days · latest post in window 27 August 2026
Posts held55 (26 July 202627 August 2026)
Views total9,350
Reactions total121
Forwards / commentsnot exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken28 Aug 2026, 17:26 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.

What this channel posts

Video runtime
8m 09s
Average length
2m 02s

Measured directly from 4 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no mark.

Reaction mix

674 reactions across 47 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 84.3% of them.

Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
ReactionCountShareShare, drawn
56884.3%
😢629.20%
👍314.60%
👏131.93%

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 48 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 674 reactions 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 26 July 2026 to 27 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.

Telegram Stars

Stars received
562
across the posts below
Posts paid on
10
of 48 we hold a reading for · 21%
Most on one post
500
single highest reading

A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @theorthodoxethos. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.

Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.

This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.

Counted over the 55 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 26 July 2026 to 27 August 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.

Recent posts

27 Aug 2026, 16:47 UTC853 views6 reactionsread 28 August 2026

WHAT EDUCATION SHOULD OUR KIDS GET? Given the unfortunate shortage of Orthodox schools in America at present, are Catholic schools an acceptable alternative for our children? Fr. Peter outlines the approach we should take when it comes to raising our children in the Orthodox faith. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaBtouEfPFg&t=5s

6

26 Aug 2026, 17:11 UTC826 views19 reactionsread 28 August 2026

WHY DON'T PROTESTANTS TRUST ANYONE? Protestants generally begin their reasoning process with the built-in assumption that no saint(s) or Council(s) in church history are to be taken for granted as being faithful—no one is trustworthy, except for themselves and their own reading of Scripture. Is this a reasonable position to default to? Fr. John Whiteford lends us his insight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_BFF4P

19

26 Aug 2026, 00:59 UTC987 views11 reactionsread 28 August 2026

The OE Blog: Pearls from the Pedalion: On Married Clergy and Fasting from Marital Relations https://www.orthodoxethos.com/post/pearls-from-the-pedalion-on-married-clergy-and-fasting-from-marital-relations

11

26 Aug 2026, 00:53 UTC875 views9 reactionsread 28 August 2026

Announcement Live stream canceled tonight. We apologize for not announcing earlier that tonight‘s live stream had to be canceled. We will reschedule and be releasing the September live stream schedule shortly. Thank you for your understanding. The OE Team

9

25 Aug 2026, 00:23 UTC≈1,070 views8 reactionsread 28 August 2026

SHIFTING TRADITIONS OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM https://youtube.com/shorts/uLyiXe-SKLc?si=t37C4iB7s615uIQf

8

24 Aug 2026, 19:21 UTC910 views8 reactionsread 28 August 2026
Forwarded from @uncutmountainpressVideo

Read more here.

7👍1

24 Aug 2026, 15:12 UTC≈1,030 views13 reactionsread 28 August 2026

NEW ORTHODOX PLANNER! TRAILER: Uncreated Light Orthodox Planner: ~ LINK: https://youtu.be/4pKj5g6KnPg?is=-66tFzoLRSyp0GaS Get your copy now.

13

24 Aug 2026, 13:42 UTC860 views22 reactionsread 28 August 2026
Forwarded from @uncutmountainpressPhoto

UPDATE from Uncut Mountain Press Dearest to Christ, to all who pre-ordered the Against the Enlightenment Book Set: The books have arrived at our distribution warehouse and now we only await the slipcase to be finished and the set to be packaged and shipped out. We expect this to happen within a week. Thank you for your patience! For those interested in learning more about the books, visit here. ICXC NIKA Fr. Pet

21👍1

24 Aug 2026, 07:09 UTC819 views8 reactionsread 28 August 2026
Photo

AUSTIN, TX Come and meet up in Austin, Texas on the 27th! On August 27, Saint Mary Romanian Orthodox Church - Austin, TX will welcome Fr. Peter Heers for a special in-person conference: “Am I Living an Orthodox Way of Life?” Many people know Fr. Peter through his talks, teachings, and online presence. This is your chance to hear him live, meet him in person, and take part in a meaningful conversation about what it

8

24 Aug 2026, 00:28 UTC≈1,120 views17 reactionsread 28 August 2026

https://youtube.com/shorts/Nyv_lqBXNtE?is=ioAfga7LDy0FxHYv

14😢3

22 Aug 2026, 20:18 UTC≈1,180 views9 reactionsread 28 August 2026

A Living Faith: The Homilies of Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou Through memories of Saints Paisios, Porphyrios, Iakovos, and the Orthodox people who formed him, Metropolitan Neophytos offers a glimpse into a culture thoroughly baptized by the Faith. There are books about saints, and then there are books which allow us, however briefly, to feel as though we have met them. The Homilies of Metropolitan Neophytos of

9

22 Aug 2026, 02:04 UTC≈1,090 views9 reactionsread 28 August 2026

A MAINLINE PROTESTANT CRITICIZES OE and Fr. John Whiteford: IF YOU ARE SO INCLINED, brothers and sisters, you could visit this channel and watch their critique of our discussion with Fr. John and leave a helpful comment underneath. With LOVE in TRUTH. LINK: https://youtu.be/MsFO97mU56s?si=Q_R1pQpT61kddelP

👍63

Showing the 12 most recent of 55 posts we hold for @theorthodoxethos. 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.

Forward network

Republishes

Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.

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.

Mentions

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.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

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.

EOTC Library
@eotcLIBRARY · 39,004
Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 67 here — alongside 66 others — read 31 August 2026
Orthodox Mezmur Channel
@Orthodox_Mezmur_For_All · 35,637
Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 60 here — alongside 59 others — read 2 September 2026
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@maheteben123 · 30,588
Telegram ranks this channel #64 of 64 here — alongside 63 others — read 7 September 2026
ዲያቆን ያረጋል አበጋዝ
@yaregalabegaz · 40,356
Telegram ranks this channel #71 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 30 August 2026

This channel appears in 4 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

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 15 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Orthodox Ethos” (@theorthodoxethos), 8,482 subscribers as measured 15 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/theorthodoxethos.

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.