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Mar 26, 2021 · The report presents detailed information on parishes, membership, and rates of worship attendance for fourteen Eastern Orthodox and nine Oriental Orthodox Church bodies. It also describes significant changes in American Orthodox Christianity since the previous Census in.
May 17, 2023 · Alexei D. Krindatch, national coordinator of the U.S. Census of Orthodox Christian Churches, said the practicing Eastern Orthodox population in the U.S. was 675,000 in 2020, down from 816,000 a decade earlier, and most parishes lost members after the outbreak of the pandemic.
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Among the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the best “church‐goers” are in the Holy Orthodox Church in North America and the American Carpatho‐Russian Orthodox Diocese. More than half of their total adherents (57% and 51% respectively) attend services on a regular basis.
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Jul 18, 2022 · The Census has revealed that from 2010-2020 Orthodox Church in America experienced a decline in membership by 12%. But these changes were different in different dioceses. Three OCA dioceses have grown in members, while nine have declined.
May 20, 2023 · While the rise in research on Native American religions, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and metaphysical movements has increased our historical, sociological, and anthropological understandings of religion in the United States, attention to Orthodox Christianity is still limited.
The Orthodox Church in America was joined by Romanian, Bulgarian, Mexican, and Albanian ethnic groups. It maintains a graduate school of theology, St. Vladimir’s Seminary, in New York City; an undergraduate school at St. Tikhon Monastery, in South Canaan, Pa.; and a seminary for the training of Native Alaskan clergy in Kodiak , Alaska.
Mar 26, 2021 · The 2020 National Census of Orthodox Christian Churches was part of the 2020 US Religion Census. Information was obtained directly from more than 3,000 parishes of fourteen Eastern Orthodox and nine Oriental Orthodox Churches.
