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e. 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 [9][10] In 2011, it had an estimated 84,900 members in the United States.
The listing is according to canonical position in the order of the diptychs (the ceremonial rankings of jurisdictions within the Orthodox Church). For each North American branch (archdiocese or diocese), the table also lists the jurisdiction of which it is part. The Orthodox Church in America is a jurisdiction onto itself.
Saint Steven's Orthodox Cathedral, Episcopal headquarters of Bishop Maksim of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America, Alhambra, California. [16] St. Mark Serbian Orthodox Monastery, Sheffield, Ohio. [17] Episcopal residence of Bishop Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America at 65 Overlook Circle in New Rochelle, New ...
Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, University City, MO, NRHP-listed. St. George's Greek Orthodox Church, Southbridge, MA, NRHP-listed. St. Euphrosynia Belarusian Orthodox Church, New Jersey. Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, New York City.
These mainstream Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions are present in North America: Ecumenical Patriarchate. See Ecumenical Patriarchate in America. Patriarchate of Antioch. Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mexico, Venezuela, Central America and the Caribbean. Russian Orthodox Church.
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 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 ...
Eastern Orthodox Christianityin North America. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOArch; Greek: Ελληνική Ορθόδοξη Αρχιεπισκοπή Αμερικής), headquartered in New York City, is an eparchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Its current primate is Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. [1][4]