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Encyclopedia > List of American bishops
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Orthodoxy in America
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Belarusian - Greek - Ukrainian Image File history File links Cross_of_the_Russian_Orthodox_Church_01. ... // Afonsky, Bp. ... The Byzantine response to the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in America consisted primarily in a number of letters and statements made in the early 1970s by the ancient autocephalous patriarchates of the Orthodox Church—the Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem—along with the Church of Greece. ... The Ligonier Meeting was a meeting of twenty-eight or twenty-nine Orthodox Christian hierarchs in North America, specifically those affiliated with SCOBA, held November 30 to December 2, 1994, at the Antiochian Village in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. ... The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (often referred to in North America simply as the Antiochian Archdiocese) is the sole jurisdiction of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada with exclusive jurisdiction over the Antiochian Orthodox faithful in those countries, though these faithful were originally cared... The Jerusalem Patriarchate in America comprises the Orthodox Churches under the omophorion of His Beatitude, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, represented in America by Archbishop Damaskinos of Jaffa. ... The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church in North America. ... The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (Russian: , ), also called the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, ROCA, or ROCOR) is a jurisdiction of Eastern Orthodoxy formed in response against the policy of Bolsheviks with respect to religion in the Soviet Union soon after the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... The Ecumenical Patriarchate in America comprises five separate jurisdictions, along with a number of stavropegial institutions, and includes roughly two-thirds of all Orthodox Christians in America. ... The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese is a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with about 75 parishes in the United States and Canada, led by Metropolitan Nicholas (Smisko) of Amissos. ...

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American Orthodox bishops are men serving as bishops in some capacity, whether with dioceses or exercising authority of some kind in the United States and Canada. The dates following their names indicate the years during which they served as bishops in America. Christ the Saviour Seminary in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is the seminary for the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (ACROD), a self-governing diocese within the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. ... The Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Holy Cross) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian seminary located in Brookline, Massachusetts. ... Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary is a higher learning institution in Jordanville, New York under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church. ... St. ... Saint Vladimirs Orthodox Theological Seminary is an Orthodox Christian seminary located in Crestwood, New York in the United States. ... International Orthodox Christian Charities, Inc. ... The Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) is an Orthodox Christian missions organization based in the USA and supported by all the jurisdictions of the Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops in America (SCOBA). ... The Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA) is an Eastern Orthodox organization designed to help cooperation among the canonical Orthodox Christian jurisdictions to be found in the Americas. ... The Evangelical Orthodox Church is an Eastern Orthodox Christian movement with its origins in Evangelical Protestantism, particularly in the Campus Crusade for Christ student missionary organization, that came to embrace an Eastern tradition of Christianity. ... This article is about a title or office in religious bodies. ... Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as fifth Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace window. ...

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Church of Antioch

The Antiochian Orthodox Church is one of the five churches that comprised the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church before the Great Schism, and today is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches. ... Saint Raphael of Brooklyn (November 20, 1860 – February 27, 1915) was born as Raphael Hawaweeny (Arabic: ‎) in Damascus, Syria. ...

Antiochian Archdiocese

  • Alexander (Mufarrij) of Ottawa, 2004-present
  • Antony (Bashir) of New York, 1935-1966
  • Antoun (Khouri) of Miami, 1981-present
  • Basil (Essey) of Wichita, 1992-present
  • Demetri (Khoury) of Jableh, 1995-2003 (retired)
  • Joseph (Al-Zehlaoui) of Los Angeles, 1995-present
  • Mark (Maymon) of Toledo, 2004-present
  • Michael (Shaheen) of Toledo, 1958-1992
  • Philip (Saliba) of New York, 1966-present
  • Samuel (David) of Toledo, 1935-1958
  • Thomas (Joseph) of Oakland, 2004-present
  • Victor (Abo-Assaley) of New York, 1924-1935

The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America (often referred to in North America simply as the Antiochian Archdiocese) is the sole jurisdiction of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada with exclusive jurisdiction over the Antiochian Orthodox faithful in those countries, though these faithful were originally cared...

Church of Russia, 1794-1924

The Russian Orthodox Church (Русская Православная церковь) is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with... Saint Tikhon of Moscow (January 19, 1865 – 7 April 1925), born Vasily Ivanovich Belavin (Василий Иванович Белавин in Russian), was the Patriarch and all Russias of the Russian Orthodox Church during the early years of the Soviet Union, 1917 through 1925. ... Saint Innocent of Alaska was a Russian Orthodox priest, bishop, archbishop and Metropolitan of Moscow and all Russia. ... Saint Raphael of Brooklyn (November 20, 1860 – February 27, 1915) was born as Raphael Hawaweeny (Arabic: ‎) in Damascus, Syria. ...

Russian Exarchate of North America, 1933-1970

  • Benjamin (Fedchenkov) of the Aleutians, 1933-1947
  • Boris (Vik) of the Aleutians, 1955-1962
  • Germogen, 1954
  • John (Wendland) of New York and the Aleutians, 1962-1967
  • Jonathan (Kopolovitch) of New York and the Aleutians, 1967-1970
  • Makary (Ilyinsky) of New York, 1947-1953

Russian Orthodox Church in the USA, 1970-present

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

The Archdiocese of America is a jurisdiction of the Eastern Orthodox Church under the Patriarch of Constantinople. ...

Metropolia/Orthodox Church in America

  • Aftimios (Ofiesh) of Brooklyn
  • Herman (Swaiko) of Washington and New York
  • Platon (Rozhdestvensky) of New York

OCA can mean: Observatoire de la Côte dAzur Orthodox Church in America Oxford Capacity Analysis Online Crash Analysis See also Oca This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...

American Orthodox Catholic Church

  • Aftimios (Ofiesh) of Brooklyn

Source

  • Derived with permission from List of American bishops at OrthodoxWiki.


 

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