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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.
Pages in category "Eastern Orthodox churches in New York (state)" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 ...
According to the April 1970 Tomos of Autocephaly granted by the Russian Orthodox Church, the official name of the church is The Autocephalous Orthodox Church in America. [14] The more comprehensive March 1970 Agreement of Tomos of Autocephaly , however, states in Article VIII that the legal name of the church was changed to Orthodox Church in ...
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.
Albanian Church or Church of Albania can refer to any of the following churches: the Church of Caucasian Albania , an ancient, briefly autocephalous church established in the 5th century. In 705, It fell under the religious jurisdiction of the Armenian Apostolic Church as the Catholicosate of Aghvank centered in Caucasian Albania, a region ...
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.