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St. Athanasius Coptic Orthodox Church, Ooltewah, Tennessee 10225 Lee Hwy, Ooltewah, TN 37363; St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Nashville, Tennessee 2412 Foster Ave Nashville, TN 37210; St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Nashville, Tennessee 1931 Old Murfreesboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37217-3022
The diocese stands out as one of the most historic in the OCA with many parishes dating back to the late 1890s, [1] the diocese was also the epicenter of the mass conversion of Eastern Catholic Americans to orthodoxy between the 1890s-1920s in much part thanks to the labors of the former Eastern Catholic priest St. Alexis Toth who brought more than 20,000 to the church by the end of his life. [2]
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.
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 OCA is currently composed of twelve geographic and three ethnic dioceses. The boundaries of ...
The Russian Orthodox Church in the USA is the name of the group of parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in America that are under the canonical authority of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'. They were previously known as the Russian Exarchate of North America before autocephaly was granted to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) in 1970 ...
The Bulgarian Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (also known as the Bulgarian Diocese of Toledo, [1] and originally known as the Bulgarian Diocese in Exile) is one of three ethnic dioceses of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). It was created in 1963 by Eastern Orthodox Christians of Bulgarian and Macedonian descent. [2]
Holy Orthodox Church in North America. Holy Nativity Convent, Brookline, Massachusetts. Abbess Mother Seraphima; Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene, Warrenton, Virginia. Abbess Mother Eirene; Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece. Saint Syncletike Monastery, Farmingdale, New York. Metropolitan Demetrios.
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 ...