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At the same time large numbers of Greeks and other Eastern Orthodox Christians were also immigrating to America. 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 ...
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 list includes the Catholic Church (including Eastern Catholic Churches), Protestant denominations with at least 0.2 million members, the Eastern Orthodox Church (and its offshoots), Oriental Orthodox Churches (and their offshoots), Nontrinitarian Restorationism, independent Catholic denominations, Nestorianism and all the other Christian ...
1886-1895 In the face of their shamans' inability to treat Old World diseases including smallpox, many Tlingit people (an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America), converted to Orthodox Christianity. [7] [note 3] 1888 Bp. Vladimir (Sokolovsky) becomes Bishop of the Aleutians and Alaska.
The percentage of Christians in Turkey, home to an historically large and influential Eastern Orthodox community, fell from 19% in 1914 to 2.5% in 1927, [20] due to genocide, [21] demographic upheavals caused by the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, [22] and the emigration of Christians to foreign countries (mostly in Europe and ...
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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.
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