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The congregation was founded in 1929 by immigrants from Kfar Mechki, Lebanon.They originally worshiped in a church downtown, that is today St. Elijah's Housing.In part due to the Lebanese Civil War the Antiochian Eastern-Orthodox population of Ottawa increased dramatically in the 1970s and 1980s and the congregation began to look for a larger home.
St. Alban's Anglican Church is Ottawa's oldest surviving church building and was attended by many of Canada's early political leaders, including Canada's first prime minister John A. Macdonald. The MET is a church in Ottawa's south end. Ste-Anne Catholic Church is a rare example of Québecois church architecture in Ontario.
More communities were established in Vancouver (1927), in Ottawa (1929) and in Edmonton in (1938). At this time, all parishes in the Americas were part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America. In 1960, the Metropolis of Toronto became the Ninth Archdiocesan District of Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America. [9]
One of ten Melkite parishes in Canada, the church is largely made up of immigrants from Lebanon, many of whom arrived in the 1970s and 1980s to flee the Lebanese Civil War. Ottawa had a small Melkite Greek Catholic community since the nineteenth century, but they had no church until St. Peter and Paul was founded in 1959.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC; French: Église orthodoxe ukrainienne du Canada; Greek: Ουκρανική Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία του Καναδά; Ukrainian: Українська православна церква Канади, romanized: Ukrainska pravoslavna tserkva Kanady) is an Eastern Orthodox church in Canada, primarily consisting of Orthodox Ukrainian ...
Lebanese Melkite Christians refers to Lebanese people who are members of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Lebanon, which is the third largest Christian group in the country after the Maronite Church and the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. The Lebanese Melkite Christians are believed to constitute about 5% [1] [2] of the total population ...
The Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in the eastern part of Canada, primarily Ontario. The eparchy is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg.
Eastern Orthodox bishops in the United States and Canada are bishops of various Eastern Orthodox Churches serving in the United States and Canada.The list includes all bishops serving in those countries, whether as diocesan bishops or in some other capacity, for example: as auxiliary bishops, diocesan administrators, or heads of various exarchates and vicariates.