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The Eastern Orthodox Church does recognize that there are occasions when couples should separate, and permit remarriage in Church, [19] though its divorce rules are stricter than civil divorce in most countries. For the Eastern Orthodox, the marriage is "indissoluble" as in it should not be broken, the violation of such a union, perceived as ...
1741 Divine Liturgy celebrated on a Russian ship off the coast of Alaska. 1767 A community of Orthodox Greeks establishes itself in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. 1787 The US Constitution is drafted in Philadelphia. 1794 Missionaries, including St. Herman of Alaska, arrive at Kodiak Island, bringing Orthodoxy to Russian Alaska.
At this time all Eastern Orthodox Christians in North America were united under the omophorion (Church authority and protection) of the Patriarch of Moscow, through the Russian Church's North American diocese. The unity was not merely theoretical, but was a reality, since there was then no other diocese on the continent.
Christian terminology and theological views of marriage vary by time period, by country, and by the different Christian denominations. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians consider marriage as a holy sacrament or sacred mystery, while Protestants consider marriage to be a sacred institution or "holy ordinance" of God.
The Quest for Orthodox Church Unity in America: A History of the Orthodox Church in North America in the Twentieth Century. New York: Saints Boris and Gleb Press, 1973. Vrame, Anton C., ed. The Orthodox Parish in America: Faithfulness to the Past and Responsibility for the Future. Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2003. (ISBN 1885652704)
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 history of the Eastern Orthodox Church is the formation, events, and transformation of the Eastern Orthodox Church through time. According to the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church is traced back to Jesus Christ and the Apostles. The Apostles appointed successors, known as bishops, and they in turn ...
e. 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.
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