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Headed by Kirill the delegation had meetings with the Russian speaking community and Vietnamese officials, and held church services in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Vung Tau (about 600 people were present) [1] Since that time representatives of Russian Orthodox Church from time to time come to Vung Tau to conduct the Eastern Orthodox divine ...
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese: 10,457 4,936 47.2% 1 0 79 132 Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA: 22,362 6,857 30.7% 2 0 101 221 Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America: 700 185 26.4% 1 0 2 350 Vicariate for the Palestinian/Jordanian Communities: 6,775 815 12% 0 9 753 Patriarchate of Antioch: Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese ...
Most Oriental Orthodox Christians in North America belong to Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Indian, Syriac and some other communities, representing religious majority or minority within a particular community. Oriental Orthodox jurisdictions are organized within the Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches. [1]
The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America. The OCA consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the United States, Canada and Mexico. [2]: 68 [7] [8] In 2011, it had an estimated 84,900 members in the United States.
After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, communication between the Russian Orthodox Church and the churches of North America was almost completely cut off. In 1920, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow directed all Russian Orthodox churches outside of Russia to govern themselves autonomously until regular communication and travel could be resumed.
In the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), the diocese is the basic church body that comprises all the parishes of a determined geographical area. It is governed by the Diocesan Bishop, with the assistance of a Diocesan Assembly and a Diocesan Council.
The Satanic Temple (TST) is a non-theistic organization and new religious movement, [1] founded in 2013 and headquartered in Salem, Massachusetts. Established in reaction to the "intrusion of Christian values on American politics", [ 4 ] [ 9 ] congregations have also formed in Australia , Canada , Finland , Germany , and the United Kingdom .
The term Orthodoxy in America or Orthodoxy in the Americas may refer to: . in relation to Orthodox Judaism: . Orthodox Judaism in the United States of America, representing communities and institutions of Orthodox Judaism in the USA