When the Orthodox in Greece under the Turkokratia met in secret caves to worship, or when under some communist regimes other Orthodox throughout Eastern Europe did the same, or when it happens these days in Turkey and throughout the Mohammedan world, is the Orthodox Church then a "real church" but not when the oppression ends?
Opression does tend to purify the church; ask the Chinese!
They certainly have no ‘Laodicean’ corruption in their congregations.