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e. The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America. The OCA consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the United States, Canada and Mexico. [2]: 68 [9][10] In 2011, it had an estimated 84,900 members in the United States.
t. e. 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.
e. Eastern Orthodoxy in North America represents adherents, religious communities, institutions and organizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in North America, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Estimates of the number of Eastern Orthodox adherents in North America vary considerably depending ...
The original San Francisco parish of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia was founded on June 2, 1927. [2] An earlier Holy Virgin Cathedral was located at 858-64 Fulton Street between Fillmore and Webster Streets. That building is still extant and was designated a San Francisco Landmark on May 3, 1970. [3] [4]
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 ...
Benjamin (Peterson), Archbishop of San Francisco and the West. Mark (Maymon), Archbishop of Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania. Alejo (Pacheco y Vera), Archbishop of Mexico City and Mexico. Melchisedek (Pleska), Archbishop of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. Irénée (Rochon), Archbishop of Ottawa and the Archdiocese of Canada.
Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece. Monastery of the Holy Ascension, Woodstock, New York. Metropolitan Demetrios. St. Gregory Palamas Monastery, Etna, California. Abbot Archimandrite Akakios; St. John of San Francisco Orthodox Monastery, Cobleskill, New York. Abbot Metropolitan Demetrios
Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco and Western America. Archbishop Kyrill (Russian: Архиепископ Кирилл, secular name Boris Mikhailovich Dmitriyev or Dmitrieff, Russian: Борис Михайлович Дмитриев; born 24 November 1954), is the ruling bishop of the Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR).