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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 ...
The Lebanese Orthodox may be understood as being part of the Antiochian Greek Christian community. The highest percentage is in Koura District , where they make 72% of the population. There are 135,000 or more Christian Arabs in Israel (and more than 39,000 non-Arab Christians). [ 48 ]
Its adherents, known as Antiochian Christians, are a Middle-Eastern semi-ethnoreligious Eastern Christian group residing in the Levant region including the Hatay Province of Turkey. [8] [7] Many of their descendants now live in the global Eastern Christian diaspora. The number of Antiochian Greek Christians is estimated to be approximately 4.3 ...
1 Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. 2 Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia. 3 Ecumenical Patriarchate ...
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese: 74,527 27,256 36.6% 9 2 247 302 Moscow Patriarchate: Russian Patriarchal Parishes in the USA: 12,377 1,952 15.8% 1 2 30 413 Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia: 27,677 8,954 32.4% 8 10 136 204 Serbian Orthodox Church: Serbian Orthodox Eparchies: 68,760 15,331 22.3% 4 18 163 559 Romanian Orthodox ...
1994 Bicentennial of Orthodox Christianity in North America (1794–1994); Ligonier Meeting in Western Pennsylvania at the Antiochian Village held by the majority of Orthodox hierarchs in North America votes to do away with the notion of Orthodox Christians in America being a "diaspora" and pledges to work together in missions; glorification of ...
The Church of Antioch (Arabic: كنيسة أنطاكية, romanized: kánīsa ʾanṭākiya, pronounced [ka.niː.sa ʔan.tˤaː.ki.ja]; Turkish: Antakya Kilisesi) was the first of the five major churches of what later became the pentarchy in Christianity, with its primary seat in the ancient Greek city of Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey).
The Patriarch of Antioch is a traditional title held by the bishop of Antioch (modern-day Antakya, Turkey).As the traditional "overseer" (ἐπίσκοπος, episkopos, from which the word bishop is derived) of the first gentile Christian community, the position has been of prime importance in Pauline Christianity from its earliest period.