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The Church of Antioch (Arabic: كنيسة أنطاكية, romanized: kánīsa ʾanṭākiya, pronounced [ka.niː.sa ʔan.tˤaː.ki.ja]; Turkish: Antakya Kilisesi) was the first of the five major churches of the early pentarchy in Christianity, with its primary seat in the ancient Greek city of Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey).
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 ...
Antioch Waco, which serves as the headquarters of the Antioch movement, was founded in April 1999. Founder Jimmy Seibert had been an Associate Pastor at Highland Baptist Church in Waco since 1988, where he introduced the concept of "life groups" (small prayer groups) and started a missionary school called Antioch Ministries International.
The Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch is the only actual residential Patriarchate of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church (Eastern Catholic, Byzantine Rite).It was formed in 1724 when a portion of the Orthodox Church of Antioch went into communion with Rome, becoming an Eastern Catholic Church, while the rest of the ancient Patriarchate continues in full communion with the rest of the ...
Antioch Christian Church may refer to: Antioch International Movement of Churches; Antioch Christian Church (Winchester, Kentucky), see National Register of Historic Places listings in Clark County, Kentucky; Antioch Christian Church (Kansas City, Missouri), see National Register of Historic Places listings in Missouri, Counties C
St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Church (La Crosse, Wisconsin) St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church (Lowell, Massachusetts) St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral (Brooklyn) Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church (Arkansas) St. Thomas Orthodox Church (Sioux City, Iowa) St Mary Orthodox Church - Cambridge, MA
The first lay members of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in Australia are thought to have come to Sydney about 1870, but the first Antiochian Orthodox priest, Nicholas Shehadie, was appointed in 1913 as Patriarcal Exarch. [1] A second parish was formed in Melbourne in 1937. The archdiocese was formed in 1970 with Bishop Gibran Rimlawi as head. A ...
On 17 October 2013, the Holy Synod of the Church of Antioch established the Archdiocese of the British Isles and Ireland. [3] [4] On 24 June 2015, after a period of deliberation, Archimandrite Silouan Oner was elected by the Holy Synod of the Church of Antioch to serve as the first Metropolitan of the Archdiocese.