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The Diocese of the South is a diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Its territory includes parishes, monasteries, and missions located in fourteen states in the Southern and Southwestern United States – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Most Oriental Orthodox Christians in North America belong to Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Indian, Syriac and some other communities, representing religious majority or minority within a particular community. Oriental Orthodox jurisdictions are organized within the Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches. [1]
In the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), the diocese is the basic church body that comprises all the parishes of a determined geographical area. It is governed by the Diocesan Bishop, with the assistance of a Diocesan Assembly and a Diocesan Council.
Orthodox churches in America became a self-governing Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America in 1924 under the leadership of Metropolitan Platon (Rozhdestvensky), popularly called the Metropolia (from Russian: митрополия). The Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America was granted autocephaly by the Russian Orthodox ...
St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Nashville, Tennessee 2412 Foster Ave Nashville, TN 37210; St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Nashville, Tennessee 1931 Old Murfreesboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37217-3022; St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church, Knoxville, Tennessee 1921 Sunny Ln, Knoxville, TN 37912
Eastern Orthodox bishops in the United States and Canada are bishops of various Eastern Orthodox Churches serving in the United States and Canada.The list includes all bishops serving in those countries, whether as diocesan bishops or in some other capacity, for example: as auxiliary bishops, diocesan administrators, or heads of various exarchates and vicariates.
Saint Steven's Orthodox Cathedral, Episcopal headquarters of Bishop Maksim of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America, Alhambra, California. [17] St. Mark Serbian Orthodox Monastery, Sheffield, Ohio. [18] Episcopal residence of Bishop Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America at 65 Overlook Circle in New Rochelle, New ...
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 ...