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Apr 8, 2022 · Known as Pascha, the Greek word for “passover,” Easter in the Orthodox Church celebrates “the eternal Passover from death to life from earth heaven.”. Great Lent, the church’s strictest ...
- Lesley Kennedy
Aug 12, 2000 · The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, with its headquarters located in the City of New York, is an Eparchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, The mission of the Archdiocese is to proclaim the Gospel of Christ, to teach and spread the Orthodox Christian faith, to energize, cultivate, and guide the life of the Church in the United States of America according to the Orthodox ...
Apr 16, 2024 · There are several Orthodox churches in America, each tracing their roots to different national traditions. Some of the largest include the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Orthodox Church in America (originally Russian Orthodox), the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, and the Serbian Orthodox Church in North ...
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More recently, President Donald Trump’s Jewish daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, also have made “Orthodox” a household word — and drawn some criticism for compromises in their observance. Lieberman, in many ways, represents an Orthodox Judaism of decades past, one that integrated more seamlessly than today’s ...
- Michael Kress
May 20, 2023 · Perhaps this is because although Orthodox Christianity is a global religion, it is also a minority religious tradition in the United States. 2017 statistics place the number of Orthodox Christians in America at one percent of the global total (Pew Research Center, 2017). While the number of U.S.-based Orthodox Christians is slightly less than ...
- Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
- 17, Issue5-6
- 20 May 2023
Orthodox Church in America, ecclesiastically independent, or autocephalous, church of the Eastern Orthodox communion, recognized as such by its mother church in Russia; it adopted its present name on April 10, 1970. Established in 1794 in Alaska, then Russian territory, the Russian Orthodox mission.
Among the many Christian holidays with different dates in the Orthodox calendar is Christmas. While Catholic and Protestant denominations celebrate Christmas on December 25, Orthodox traditions celebrate it on or around January 7. This is because December 25 in the Julian calendar falls on January 7 in the Gregorian calendar.
