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Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral (in Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, Hagia Sophia) is a Greek Orthodox church built in 1952, in what was then the Greek section of Central Los Angeles, California. It is located at West 15th Street and South Normandie Avenue in the Byzantine-Latino Quarter [ 1 ]
Pope Shenouda III called upon Bishop Serapion to be the bishop of Los Angeles, Southern California and Hawaii on November 14, 1995 in the Coptic Patriarchate in Cairo. Bishop Serapion arrived in Los Angeles on December 23, 1995, and was installed upon the throne by six bishops, in the presence of numerous priests, hundreds of deacons, and a ...
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 ...
Montebello (Los Angeles area) Holy Cross Cathedral ( Armenian Apostolic Church ) (Oriental Orthodox Communion) 34°01′17″N 118°06′22″W / 34.0214661°N 118.1061242°W / 34.0214661; -118.1061242 ( Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Cathedral, Montebello, California
St. Mary's Coptic Orthodox Church of Los Angeles was founded as the second Coptic parish in Los Angeles, and was incorporated by 1974 with about 50 families at the time. [3] The Coptic population of Los Angeles had been growing since the late 1960s, when Father Bishoy Kamel was commissioned to serve the neighboring Church of St. Mark in 1969 ...
St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church of Los Angeles was founded as the second Coptic parish in the United States, and was incorporated by 1970 with about 200 families at the time. [3] The Coptic families in Los Angeles started settling from around the late 1960s when the late Father Bishoy Kamel was commissioned to serve the church in 1969, [ 4 ...
Sunday services at Saint Andrew are attended by over 400 people, with seating for only half that number; the Orthodox tradition maintains that standing is the proper disposition during worship. The first Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the new church temple on the Orthodox Feast of Palm Sunday, 2011.
The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of North America (ACROD) is a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with 78 parishes in the United States and Canada. Though the diocese is directly responsible to the Patriarchate, it is under the spiritual supervision of the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America .