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Greek Orthodox Metropolises; Metropolis of Atlanta; Personnel; Archbishop Sevastianos (Skordallos) Cathedral Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Atlanta) Geography; Location Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Louisiana. Vital Statistics; Total Parishes 73 Website: atlmetropolis.org
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church (San Francisco) St. John's Greek Orthodox Church, Pueblo, Colorado, NRHP-listed; Saint Sophia Cathedral (Washington, D.C.) St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Tarpon Springs, Florida) Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Atlanta), Georgia; Greek Orthodox Church of Saint George, Des Moines, Iowa, NRHP-listed
Far more significant in increasing the Greek presence in Georgia was the settlement there of Pontic Greeks and Eastern Anatolia Greeks.Large-scale Pontic Greek settlement in Georgia followed the Ottoman conquest of the Empire of Trebizond in 1461, when Greek refugees from the eastern Black Sea coastal districts, the Pontic Alps, and then Eastern Anatolia fled or migrated to neighbouring ...
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These dioceses are the result of smaller ethnic jurisdictions joining the OCA at some point in its history, usually after having broken from other bodies. The Stavropegial Institutions are churches, monastic communities, and theological schools that are under the jurisdiction of the OCA's primate , Metropolitan Tikhon (Mollard) .
According to the constitution, Greek Orthodoxy is the prevailing religion of Greece; this is reinforced by displays of the Greek flag and national emblem at church properties. Adherence to the Eastern Orthodox Church was established as a definitive hallmark of Greek ethnic identity in the first modern Greek constitution, the " Epidaurus Law ...
Around this time, Catholic missionaries became active in Georgia, setting up small Latin communities. A Latin Church diocese was established at Tbilisi in 1329, but this was allowed to lapse after the appointment of the fourteenth and last of its line of bishops in 1507, owing to few numbers of Catholics. Catholic missions residence in Mingrelia.
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