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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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Aug 14, 2010 · The first Greek Orthodox parishes in North America were under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople which had over the centuries assumed responsibility for the diaspora communities and assigned to them their priests.
