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History. The Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia had its origins before World War II as the Bulgarian Diocese of North and South America and Australia. However, a result of the establishment of a Communist government in Bulgaria after the war, relations of the diocese with the Church of Bulgaria were disrupted.
Eastern Orthodox Church. A memorial service ( Greek: μνημόσυνον, mnemósynon, "memorial"; [1] Slavonic: панихида, panikhída, from Greek παννυχίς, pannychis, "vigil"; [2] [3] Romanian: parastas and Serbian парастос, parastos, from Greek παράστασις, parástasis) [4] is a liturgical solemn service for ...
The Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia ( Czech: Pravoslavná církev v Českých zemích a na Slovensku; Slovak: Pravoslávna cirkev v českých krajinách a na Slovensku) is a self-governing body of the Eastern Orthodox Church that territorially covers the countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
List of tallest Eastern Orthodox church buildings. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, with its tallest Orthodox bell tower (122 m). This is a list of tallest Orthodox church buildings in the world, all those higher than 70 metres. Traditionally, an Orthodox church building is crowned by one or several domes with Orthodox crosses on ...
Eastern Orthodoxy in Italy refers to adherents, religious communities, institutions and organizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Italy. In 2014, there were 14 distinctive Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions on the territory of Italy, some of them belonging to canonical Eastern Orthodox churches, while others are classified as independent ...
The church was established in 1924, to accommodate Orthodox Christians of Polish descent in the eastern part of the country, when Poland regained its independence after the First World War . In total, it has approximately 500,000 adherents (2016). [1] In the Polish census of 2011, 156,000 citizens declared themselves as members.
The Orthodox Church in Japan or Orthodox Church of Japan (Japanese: 日本ハリストス正教会, romanized: Nihon Harisutosu Seikyōkai, OCJ), also known as the Japanese Orthodox Church (Russian: Японская православная церковь, romanized: Yaponskaya pravoslavnaya tserkov') is an autonomous Eastern Orthodox church within the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate.
