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e. Eastern Orthodoxy in North America represents adherents, religious communities, institutions and organizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in North America, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Estimates of the number of Eastern Orthodox adherents in North America vary considerably depending ...
May 10, 2022 · Eastern Orthodox churches, which include ROCOR, flourished in the U.S. starting at the turn of the 20th century, when migrants flocked to major industrial hubs like New York, Chicago, Detroit...
- Odette Yousef
The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America. The OCA consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the United States, Canada and Mexico.: 68 In 2011, it had an estimated 84,900 members in the United States.
May 20, 2023 · This article considers why that might be case, before turning to how (Eastern) Orthodoxy provides American histories tied intimately to global politics, immigration, and nationalism, while also prompting us to reconfigure how we study religions in the United States.
- Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
- 17, Issue5-6
- 20 May 2023
The timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in North America represents a timeline of the historical development of religious communities, institutions and organizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in North America.
Introduction. In a continent that speaks of Christianity in three categories—Protestant, Catholic and “Other”—Eastern Orthodoxy is clearly “Other.” Eastern Orthodox Christians have been the great exceptions in North American history and North American religion.
Written by the Very Rev. John Matusiak. Managing Editor, The Orthodox Church magazine. The Orthodox Church in America traces its origins to the arrival in Kodiak, Alaska of eight Orthodox missionaries from the Valaamo Monastery in the northern Karelia region of Russia in 1794.
