Do I have a Guardian Angel

I come from a Calvinist but Trinitarian Baptism, and I was confirmed in the Presbyterian church, I am soon to be Chrismated as my Baptism was determined as valid. I’m just a Catechumen so who am I to oppose my priest and bishop on the validity of my baptism, but then the question of the Guardian Angel comes to question. Do you get assigned one at birth, Baptism, Christmation, do Heterodox get Guardian Angels, do they get Guardian Angels but they remain dormant until they (assuming they do) find orthodoxy? Anyway, please pray for my enlightenment on this subject if you can’t help me.

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u/ChristIsInOurMidst83 — 20 days ago
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Orthodox Ottomans?

Can someone with a little time make an alternate history map and flag where the Byzantines unify better and send Missionaries to Muslim Anatolian Turks and after numerous successful conversions of high rank people and the common folk, the ottomans declare themselves an Orthodox kingdom. The Greek Alphabet would be used for a Turkish language creating a Byzantine Balkans (as Byzantium has Turkish power to help them reconquer the Slavic Balkans) Eventually the Byzanto-Turkish Ottoman Anatolia which has conquered the same territories in Africa and Arabia as in our world unite with an Eastern Roman Empire that has conquered Greater Dobruja, Bulgaria, Serbia, Illyria, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Venice and Much of the Adrian coast of Italy and all of Grecia in an Austro-Hungarian style monarchy. The Austro Hungarians Become the opposing state to this and conquer all of the rest of Italy. A Catholic Theocratic Austro-Italo-Hungary Hyperstate fights against an Orthodox Theocratic Byzantino-Armeno-Turkic Hyperstate.
How would this Orthodox Empire interact with a Russia, would Russia be more Catholic or Orthodox, would they form their own schismed Russian Orthodox Church that actively tries to defeat the Byzantine one? Would Mecca still be Muslim under centuries of Orthodox Christian Absolutist Imperial rule? Would Martin Luther lead an Orthodox Revolution in a Habsburg Catholic Germany and create an Orthodox HRE in collaboration with the Byzantine Roman Empire? Would Austria-Hungary claim to be the HRE? What about colonization in the Americas, would that even happen? What about the Islamic, Arabic, African, Chinese, Aztec, and Etcetera people be affected by this? Would the English rise to power? Would WWI and WWII happen? (If it does dont do sloppy work and just create and New Trianon and Versalles). How would the Armene, Ottoman, and Roman Hellenic cultures and languages fuse/separate/interact? So many questions and answers and nooks and crannies to dig into?

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u/ChristIsInOurMidst83 — 27 days ago