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The Metropolis of Chicago (Greek: Ιερά Μητρόπολις Σικάγου) 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.
Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church is a church in Hammond, Indiana It is part of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago , [ 1 ] within the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America . [ 2 ]
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church (Seattle), United States This page was last edited on 18 April 2022, at 12:24 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The Church of St Demetrius was destroyed in the second half of the 13th century, probably due to an earthquake, but was reconstructed in the 1350s. A single-apse church was built nearby in the 1360s and existed until the 17th century; it used materials from the destroyed Church of St Demetrius.
The Church of Saint Demetrius, or Hagios Demetrios (Greek: Άγιος Δημήτριος), is the main sanctuary dedicated to Saint Demetrius, the patron saint of Thessaloniki (in Central Macedonia, Greece), dating from a time when it was the second largest city of the Byzantine Empire.
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.
The history of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church reflects the history of Seattle and of the United States in general, the history of Seattle's Greek community, and the tensions resulting from differing interpretations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity within the congregation and from differing views on the relative power of the Archdiocese and the individual congregation.
Her cult continued during the time of the Turkish occupation and it still continues today in the modern church of St. Theodora which is now part of a male monastery. [15] In August 2010, archaeologists in Thessaloniki discovered a tomb that they tentatively identified as that of Theodora as previously a large three-aisled basilica dedicated to ...