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The bishop of the archdiocese from 2005 - 2019 was Nikon (Liolin), who was elected to the position of Bishop of Boston and the Albanian Archdiocese on October 22, 2003.He was later installed as Bishop of Boston, New England, and the Albanian Archdiocese on December 18, 2005, reflecting his election by the Holy Synod to simultaneously head the OCA's Diocese of New England which is based in ...
On November 3 and 4, 2006, at the new Monastery of St. Vlash in Durrës, there was a special Clergy-Laity Assembly of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, attended by 257 representatives (including all clergy members). At this Assembly the New Constitution (Statute) of the Church was analyzed and accept unanimously.
The Diocese of New York and New Jersey was formally established after the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) was granted autocephaly in 1970.Initially, the diocese served as the see of the ruling hierarch of the OCA's mission and later became the see of the ruling hierarch of the autocephalous Church, supporting the national administration.
During 1999, when Albania accepted waves of refugees from Kosovo, the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, in collaboration with donors and other international religious organizations (especially ACT and WCC), led an extensive humanitarian program of more than $12 million, hosting 33,000 Kosovars in its two camps, supplying them with food ...
Eastern Orthodoxy in New York City (2 C) Pages in category "Eastern Orthodoxy in New York (state)" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
[16] [19] In November 1870, the first Eastern Orthodox church in New York City was consecrated. [19] Eastern Catholicism was viewed with suspicion by several Latin Church bishops in the United States; some, such as Archbishop John Ireland of Saint Paul, Minnesota, were actually hostile, especially concerning the matter of married clergy.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly known simply as the Orthodox Church is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. [1] [2 ...
With the controversy around Bp. Theofan's status, the end of World War II, and the increasing suppression and manipulation of the Albanian Orthodox Church by the new Communist government, a significant portion of Orthodox Albanian-Americans petitioned the patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras, to send a canonical bishop.