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Greek Orthodox Metropolises. The Metropolis of Chicago is a metropolis of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in the North-Central Midwest, United States, with its see city of Chicago. The mother church of the Metropolis is Annunciation Cathedral in Chicago. On 7 February 2018, the Holy Synod of the ...
The church later established Socrates School in 1908, the first parochial school in the country. [4] Flaming Saganaki was invented at the Parthenon Restaurant in Chicago's Greektown. [7] [8] [9] Attempts to unite the various Greek restaurants in the area as well as the wider city were made with the establishment of "Hermes", a Greek business ...
On August 3, 1931, Rev. Peter Semkoff officially petitioned Theophilus, Archbishop of Chicago, the local bishop of the Russian Metropolia, for his permission to establish a new parish in the Gage Park area of Chicago (2410 W 53rd St. Chicago, IL 60632), to be eventually known as St. Peter and St. Paul Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church.
In 1957, Fr. Ivan Kohut launched a campaign to build a new church. Bishop Joseph Michael Schmondiuk of Stamford dedicated the new Church on 20 November 1960. The church building features stained glass windows and bells imported from Italy. A fresco of the Last Supper by Ukrainian-American painter Mychajlo Dmytrenko adorns the apse. [2]
40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2) The National Hellenic Museum is the second oldest American institution dedicated to displaying and celebrating the cultural contributions of Greeks and Greek-Americans. Formerly known as the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center, the National Hellenic Museum is located in Chicago ’s Greektown, at the corner of ...
The Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the whole Western United States and Midwest (except Ohio), Alaska, and Hawaii. As of 2020, the St. Nicholas Eparchy has 43 churches and missions in the western USA.
Eparchy of St. Nicholas of Chicago. Clergy. Bishop (s) Most Rev. BENEDICT (Aleksiychuk) Rector. Very Rev. Bohdan Nalysnyk. St. Nicholas Cathedral is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic cathedral located in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It houses the seat for the Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago.
The present Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch is John X (Yazigi), who presided over the Archdiocese of Western and Central Europe (2008–2013). He was elected as primate of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East as John X of Antioch (Yazigi) on December 17, 2012.