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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'. They were previously known as the Russian Exarchate of North America before autocephaly was granted to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) in 1970.
On the Kuskokwim River; is also known as the "Little Russian Mission" St. Michael the Archangel Church (Cordova, Alaska) 1925 built 1980 NRHP-listed Cordova, Alaska: Old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church
The Church of St. John the Baptist is one of the oldest Orthodox churches in Nizhny Novgorod, mentioned from the 15th century. The stone church was consecrated in 1683, again on November 4, 2005. [1] The nearest Ivanovskaya tower of the Kremlin was named after this temple. The church is located on the National Unity Square, Rozhdestvenskaya Street.
The Chesme Church (Russian: Чесменская церковь; full name Church of Saint John the Baptist at Chesme Palace, also called the Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, Russian: це́рковь Рождества́ Иоа́нна Предте́чи при Че́сменском Дворце́), [1] is a small Russian Orthodox church at 12 Lensoveta Street, in Saint ...
The Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist had its beginnings largely in the person of St Sophrony of Essex. After his departure from Mount Athos, where he had been a disciple of Saint Silouan the Athonite, and his subsequent move to Paris, he was to live in a Russian old-people's home, assisting the priest there. Soon, two ...
Due to unease in the congregation of St. Mary's two offshoot churches were founded that Cordella designed; [7] in 1913, he designed the Byzantine Catholic Church of St. Constantine, [a] also in Minneapolis, and in 1926, he designed the Romanesque St. John the Baptist Greek Catholic Church in Minneapolis. [8] Cordella also designed number of ...
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Washington, D.C. is a church of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. The parish was founded in 1949 by Archbishop John Maximovich, while the church building was completed in 1958. For the first nine years, the congregation met for Divine Liturgy every Sunday in ...
John the Russian (Russian: Иоанн Русский; c. 1690 – 9 June [O.S. 27 May] 1730) was a Russian Orthodox slave who is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Being a prisoner of war and a slave to a Turkish Ağa , he became famous and respected even by his Muslim master for his humility, steadiness in faith and benevolence.