Apparatus
Coverage report
What this archive contains, what is only partly done, and what is missing. Gaps are listed as gaps.
Verification status of this build
This is the most important section on the page. It states what this build could and could not verify.
| Item | State | What remains |
|---|---|---|
| Tier C primary layer (conciliar texts, canons, patristic works) | Complete and verified | Extracted from public-domain editions actually obtained and checksummed; quotations checked mechanically against the archive. |
| Tier A verification (OCA and synodal sources) | Not performed | The network egress policy in the build environment refused all requests to oca.org and every other official Orthodox host. No page is confirmed against an official Orthodox source. |
| Tier B verification (official catechetical sources) | Not performed | Same cause. goarch.org, antiochian.org and assemblyofbishops.org were all unreachable. |
| Tier D verification (modern scholarship) | Not performed | No scholarly host was reachable. Every page that would benefit from tier D scholarship records it as outstanding. |
| Records carrying source-audited | None, deliberately | The status requires that the recorded verification routes were travelled, and the official-source route could not be. |
| Records carrying primary-verified | Applied where the archive supports the page | Means the primary evidence was reopened and checked; official-source confirmation is still outstanding. |
Councils
Guides to the seven ecumenical councils, the apostolic council of Acts 15, and the Council in Trullo.
| Item | State | What remains |
|---|---|---|
| All seven ecumenical councils | Complete | Official Orthodox confirmation of the reception narratives. |
| Acts 15 as the apostolic pattern | Complete | Rests on the text of Acts and Percival's introduction; needs an official Orthodox treatment and a tier D commentary. |
| The Council in Trullo | Complete | Official Orthodox source on how canon II functions as the canonical index. |
| Local councils (Ancyra, Neocaesarea, Gangra, Antioch, Laodicea, Sardica, Carthage) | Not written | Their canons are in the source edition and could be archived and given guides. Planned. |
| The council of 879-880 and the Palamite councils | Named in the timeline only | Deserve full guides. Note that Orthodox usage does not agree on numbering them. |
Canons
189 canons archived in full from six councils, with twenty full study pages.
| Item | State | What remains |
|---|---|---|
| The twenty canons of Nicaea | Complete: text and full study page for each | Confirmation of each pastoral note against an official Orthodox canonical source. |
| Constantinople I (7), Ephesus (8), Chalcedon (30), Trullo (102), Nicaea II (22) | Text archived and readable in full | Study pages of the Nicene kind have not been written for these. Trullo canon II is the highest priority. |
| Canons of the local councils and of the Fathers | Not archived | Present in the source edition; extraction is a matter of running the existing pipeline over further sections. |
| A second independent modern translation for comparison | Not obtained | The verification policy asks for a second translation or critical apparatus. Percival's Ancient Epitomes and Byzantine canonists are a second witness within one edition, which is not the same thing. |
Fathers and writers
39 profiles, classified by how the Church actually receives each figure.
| Item | State | What remains |
|---|---|---|
| The figures named in the project brief | All present | Ephrem, Isaac the Syrian, John Climacus, Benedict, Maximus, John of Damascus, Origen, Evagrius and Pseudo-Dionysius have no archived work; their pages say so. |
| Clement of Rome | Profile present, text NOT archived | The available working text of 1 Clement lacked the provenance the source policy requires and was refused by the extraction pipeline. Obtain a verifiable public-domain edition. |
| Augustine and Jerome | Profiles present, no archived works | The working corpus contains both. Archive the Confessions, On the Trinity, and Jerome's prefaces and Lives of Illustrious Men. |
| Letter to Diognetus | Not present | No entry and no archived text. Should be added as a classified anonymous work. |
| Later Byzantine figures (Photius, Symeon the New Theologian, Gregory Palamas) | Not present | Outside the first eight centuries, but needed for the later-reception material. |
Formation of Scripture
Eight witness pages and a six-lesson study path.
| Item | State | What remains |
|---|---|---|
| The Nicaea myth | Answered directly, with the council's documents archived | None. |
| Witnesses: Justin, Irenaeus, Muratorian Fragment, Eusebius, Cyril, Athanasius, Jerome, Trullo canon II | Complete | Jerome's page has no archived text and says so. |
| Origen on the canon | Not written | No work of Origen is archived. Needs both. |
| The North African councils (Hippo, Carthage) | Not written | Their canons are in the source edition. Should be archived and given witness pages. |
| A sourced comparison of the Scripture lists in the canons Trullo confirms | Not written | Named on the Trullo witness page as outstanding. |
| A sourced comparison of printed Orthodox Bibles | Not written | Greek, Slavonic and English Orthodox Bibles differ in contents and order. The site says so and does not yet show it. |
Catechesis and study paths
Seven paths and 47 lessons.
| Item | State | What remains |
|---|---|---|
| Path 1: Orthodox Christianity, start here | Complete, 16 lessons | Every lesson needs OCA confirmation; several need it specifically on jurisdictional variation. |
| Path 2: The apostolic and early Church | 5 lessons | Thinner than intended. Lessons on worship in the early Church and on the third century would fill real gaps. |
| Path 3: Reading the Fathers | 4 lessons | A second guided reading from a different genre. |
| Path 4: How the biblical canon formed | Complete, 6 lessons | Tier D scholarship throughout. |
| Path 5: The seven councils | Complete, 8 lessons | OCA confirmation. |
| Path 6: The canons of Nicaea | Complete, 3 lessons plus 20 canon studies | Canonical-source confirmation. |
| Path 7: Orthodox worship and spiritual life | 5 lessons | Jurisdictional variation in fasting and calendar practice is described generally and needs sourced specifics. |
| Chrysostom's homilies against the Judaizers | Acknowledged on his profile, no dedicated page | Named as outstanding. Deserves a full page rather than a paragraph. |
The text archive
48 works and 199 conciliar documents and canon series, all public domain.
| Item | State | What remains |
|---|---|---|
| ANF/NPNF works | 48 archived, about 754,000 words | Provenance, rights and SHA-256 recorded for every file. |
| Machine-translated material | Excluded by the pipeline | The filter refused one work during the initial build; that gap is recorded above. |
| Ignatius | Archived with a recension warning on every file | The edition prints shorter and longer recensions in parallel. Separating them would require a different edition. |
| Athanasius, Festal Letter 39 | Extracts only | Fuller Greek, Coptic and Syriac witnesses exist and are not archived. |
| Greek and Syriac text | Imperfect where the PDF text layer is poor | Where a Greek term carries argumentative weight the page states it rather than relying on extraction. |
Site and tooling
What the build does and what it does not yet do.
| Item | State | What remains |
|---|---|---|
| Static generation, search, filters, local study data, study packet, print, offline | Working | None. |
| Content validation, quotation audit, internal link check, unit tests | Working and run in CI | None. |
| Automated accessibility testing | Not run | No browser automation was available in the build environment. The site was built to WCAG 2.2 AA and checked by inspection, not by an automated audit. This should be run before any claim of conformance is made. |
| Lighthouse or comparable performance audit | Not run | Same cause. |
| Cross-browser and screen-reader testing | Not run | Same cause. |