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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 on ...
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
In 1891, Alexis Toth brought a group of 361 Eastern Catholics into Eastern Orthodoxy. From then until his death in 1909, Toth brought approximately 20,000 Eastern Catholics from 65 independent communities to Eastern Orthodoxy. By 1917, 163 Eastern Catholic parishes consisting of more than 100,000 faithful had been converted.
St. Sava's Serbian Orthodox Monastery, located at the Episcopal headquarters of Bishop Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Eastern America in Libertyville, Illinois. New Gračanica Monastery , Episcopal headquarters of Bishop Longin of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of New Gračanica and Midwestern America , Third Lake, Illinois .
Thus Constantinople is by far the largest numerical representation of Eastern Orthodoxy in North America, including roughly twice as many Eastern Orthodox Christians under its omophorion than all other jurisdictions combined and about two-fifths of all Orthodox bishops in America.
1864 Holy Trinity Church, first Orthodox parish established on United States soil in New Orleans, Louisiana, by Greeks. 1865 First Divine Liturgy celebrated in New York City, by Fr. Agapius Honcharenko. 1867 Alaska purchased by the United States from Russia; [note 2] Bp. Paul (Popov) succeeds Bp. Peter.
The Russian Orthodox Church in the USA is the name of the group of parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in America that are under the canonical authority of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.
Eastern Orthodoxy in the United States by state (33 C) * Eastern Orthodoxy in Washington, D.C. (4 P) A. American saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church (14 P)