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Some are former church buildings; others are current churches within the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. These are Orthodox Christian cathedrals or churches in North America that are notable, whether for their architectural design and or historical characteristics or for other reasons.
The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta is one of the Metropolises of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America with 73 parishes. [1]
The Annunciation Cathedral is a Greek Orthodox Cathedral located in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the seat of the Archbishop of the Metropolis of Atlanta, in the Southeastern United States. The church is known for the rich background and extravagant decoration on both the interior and exterior of the church. The original membership of the parish was 72.
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) .
Pages in category "Greek Revival architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 67 pages are in this category, out of 67 total.
One notable and architecturally important exception is Frank Lloyd Wright's design of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, in the United States. The Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity on New York City's Upper East Side is the largest Orthodox Christian church in the Western Hemisphere. [2]
Far more significant in increasing the Greek presence in Georgia was the settlement there of Pontic Greeks and Eastern Anatolia Greeks.Large-scale Pontic Greek settlement in Georgia followed the Ottoman conquest of the Empire of Trebizond in 1461, when Greek refugees from the eastern Black Sea coastal districts, the Pontic Alps, and then Eastern Anatolia fled or migrated to neighbouring ...
In 2002, it was reported that there were 35 eparchies (dioceses) and about 600 churches within the Georgian Orthodox Church, served by 730 priests. The Georgian Orthodox Church has around 3,600,000 members within Georgia [3] [54] (no sources attempt to count members among the Georgian diaspora).