The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 220 million baptized members. A communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its bishops via local synods, the church has no central doctrinal or governmental authority analogous to the head of the Roman Catholic Church—the Pope—but the Ecumenical Patriarch of …

The following list presents Eastern Orthodox churches in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.As of January 2010, there are 28 Orthodox churches within Toronto, 9 Mission stations, 4 Chapels, and 1 monastery, for a total of 42 canonical Orthodox sanctuaries.. The first Orthodox community established in the city of Toronto was the Greek Orthodox Community of St. …

The Eastern Orthodox Church is a Christian body whose adherents are largely based in Western Asia (particularly Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, and Palestine) and Turkey, Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Caucasus (Georgia, Abkhazia, Ossetia etc.), with a growing presence in the Western world.Eastern Orthodox Christians accept the decisions of the first seven …

One of the effects of the persecution and administrative chaos wreaked on the Russian Orthodox Church by the Bolshevik Revolution was a flood of refugees from Russia to the United States, Canada, and Europe.The Revolution of 1917 severed large sections of the Russian church—dioceses in America, Japan, and Manchuria, as well as refugees in Europe—from …

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The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America.The OCA is partly recognized as autocephalous and consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the United States, Canada and Mexico.: 68 In 2011, it had an estimated 84,900 members in the United States. The OCA has …

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, is a communion comprising the seventeen separate autocephalous (self-governing) hierarchical churches that recognise each other as canonical (regular) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.. Each constituent church is self-governing; its highest-ranking bishop called the primate (a patriarch, …

The Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible (EOB) is an incomplete English language edition of the Bible published and controlled by Greek Orthodox Christians with limited copyright control and within a collaborative framework, independent from non-Orthodox commercial publishers and benefiting from the input from Eastern Orthodox scholars and theologians.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን, Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan) is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches.One of the few Christian churches in sub-Saharan Africa originating before European colonization of the continent, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church dates back to the ...

The ecumenical patriarch (Greek: Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, romanized: Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (), New Rome and primus inter pares (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches which compose the Eastern Orthodox Church.The ecumenical patriarch is regarded as the representative and …