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Coptic Orthodox Church in North America also has several dioceses. [4] Syriac Orthodox Church in North America has its own hierarchy, with two dioceses in the United States (eastern and western), [5] two patriarchal vicariates (one for Canada and one for Central America), and also adding to that the autonomous Malankara Archdiocese of North ...
The Oriental Orthodox Churches are Eastern Christian churches adhering to Miaphysite Christology, [1] [2] with approximately 50 million members worldwide. [3] [4] The Oriental Orthodox Churches adhere to the Nicene Christian tradition. Oriental Orthodoxy is one of the oldest branches in Christianity. [5]
Oriental Orthodoxy in the United States (5 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Oriental Orthodoxy in North America" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
These mainstream Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions are present in North America: Ecumenical Patriarchate. See Ecumenical Patriarchate in America; Patriarchate of Antioch. Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America; Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mexico, Venezuela, Central America and the Caribbean; Russian Orthodox Church
At this time all Eastern Orthodox Christians in North America were united under the omophorion (Church authority and protection) of the Patriarch of Moscow, through the Russian Church's North American diocese. The unity was not merely theoretical, but was a reality, since there was then no other diocese on the continent.
The Orthodox-Catholic Church of America (OCCA) is an independent and self-governing Christian syncretic (Eastern Orthodox/Oriental Orthodox/Western Catholic) jurisdiction based in the United States (including the territory of the US Virgin Islands), with clergy also in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Africa, and Australia. [2]
The Antiochian Orthodox followers were originally cared for by the Russian Orthodox Church in America and the first bishop consecrated in North America, Raphael of Brooklyn, was consecrated by the Russian Orthodox Church in America in 1904 to care for the Syro-Levantine Greek Orthodox Christian Ottoman immigrants to the United States and Canada, who had come chiefly from the vilayets of Adana ...
Eastern Orthodoxy in South America, representing communities and institutions of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in South America; in relation to Oriental Orthodox Christianity: Oriental Orthodoxy in the United States of America, representing communities and institutions of Oriental Orthodox Christianity in the USA; Oriental Orthodoxy in North ...