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The Eastern Orthodox Church is a communion of 15 autocephalous—that is, administratively completely independent—regional churches, [290] plus the Orthodox Church in America and two Ukrainian Orthodox Churches. The Orthodox Church in America is recognised as autocephalous only by the Russian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Polish and Czech-Slovak ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, [1] is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. [2][3] Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") Eastern Orthodox Church is organised into autocephalous ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly known simply as the Orthodox Church is a communion composed of up to seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that profess Eastern Orthodoxy and recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. [1] [2 ...
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.
Jerzy Nowosielski – famous Polish painter, noted for his numerous works of Byzantine-influenced religious art. Karl Matzek – convert from Catholicism who did religious art for the faith. Prokhor of Gorodets – icon painter. Toros Roslin – Armenian of Oriental Orthodoxy, but some of his works are Byzantine-influenced.