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The Orthodox-Catholic Church of America was established in the United States in 1892 under the mandate of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch, Ignatius Peter IV. The founding archbishop, Joseph René Vilatte (ordained as Mar Timotheus), had been ordained as a priest by Bishop Ernst Herzog of the Old Catholic Church in Bern, Switzerland on June 7 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. Second-largest Christian church This article is about the Eastern Orthodox Church as an institution. For its religion, doctrine and tradition, see Eastern Orthodoxy. For other uses of "Orthodox Church", see Orthodox Church (disambiguation). For other uses of "Greek Orthodox", see Greek ...
The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of North America (ACROD) is a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with 78 parishes in the United States and Canada. Though the diocese is directly responsible to the Patriarchate, it is under the spiritual supervision of the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America .
This is a list of Greek Orthodox churches in the United States that are notable, either as buildings or as church congregations. Some are buildings that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places [ 1 ] or state- or local historic register for their architecture or other reasons.
The Union of Charismatic Orthodox Churches (UCOC) is a predominantly African American and Hispanic/Latino Christian denomination forming part of the Convergence Movement. [1] Established in Painted Post , New York , on July 31, 2019, [ 2 ] the UCOC describes itself as a union "embracing a multiplicity of Protestant and catholic expressions of ...
The "Macedonian Home" in 1939, converted to St. Elia Macedono-Bulgarian Orthodox Church in 1946. The present church structure that is home to St. Elia today was built in 1939 by Akron's Macedonian-Bulgarian community, most of whom had emigrated in the early 20th century from the cities of Bitola, Florina, and Sorovich in southwestern Macedonia.
[15] [14] The Catholic Church has referred to these churches as "the Ancient Churches of the East". [16] Today, Oriental Orthodox Churches are in full communion with each other, but not with the Eastern Orthodox Church or any other churches. Like Catholics or Eastern Orthodox, the Oriental Orthodox Churches includes several self-governing churches.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly known simply as the Orthodox Church is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.