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Also by state then city: Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church (San Francisco) St. John's Greek Orthodox Church, Pueblo, Colorado, NRHP-listed; Saint Sophia Cathedral (Washington, D.C.) St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Tarpon Springs, Florida) Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Atlanta), Georgia
Diocese of Orange (county, L.A.) Diocese of San Bernardino; Diocese of San Diego; Ecclesiastical province of San Francisco, comprising the northern part of the state of California and the state of Hawaii (in Oceania). Metropolitan Archdiocese of San Francisco. Diocese of Oakland; Diocese of Sacramento; Diocese of San Jose in California
St. Jude Melkite Catholic Church is a Melkite Greek Catholic Church which follows the Byzantine Rite. It is one of 45 Melkite Greek Catholic churches or missions reporting to the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton. The Church is located at 126 SE Fifteenth Road in Brickell, a neighborhood in Miami, Florida. [1] [2] [3]
These dioceses are the result of smaller ethnic jurisdictions joining the OCA at some point in its history, usually after having broken from other bodies. The Stavropegial Institutions are churches, monastic communities, and theological schools that are under the jurisdiction of the OCA's primate , Metropolitan Tikhon (Mollard) .
The first Greek Orthodox community in the Americas was founded in 1864, in New Orleans, Louisiana, by a small colony of Greek merchants. [11] [12] The first permanent community was founded in New York City in 1892, [9] today's Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity and the See of the Archbishop of America. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of ...
Diocese of Oregon City: St. John the Apostle Church •1843.12.01: Established as the Apostolic Vicariate of Oregon with territory from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Baltimore and Archdiocese of Quebec •1846.07.24: Promoted as Diocese of Oregon City; lost territory to establish the Diocese of Vancouver Island and Diocese of Walla Walla
Spain regained control of Florida from England in 1784, but the population of the colony was now non-Catholic. When Florida was ceded to the United States in 1821, the Catholic population of Florida was still small. The first diocese in Florida was the Diocese of St. Augustine, founded in 1870. After its founding, the diocese started recruiting ...
According to the constitution, Greek Orthodoxy is the prevailing religion of Greece; this is reinforced by displays of the Greek flag and national emblem at church properties. Adherence to the Eastern Orthodox Church was established as a definitive hallmark of Greek ethnic identity in the first modern Greek constitution, the " Epidaurus Law ...