Two items: 1) Why 150 years? 2024 - 1794 = 230 years. Are you suggesting that multiplicity didn’t start until after it was only Russian Orthodox in America, while before there was unity? The most commonly agreed (2nd) origin date for the arrival of the Orthodox Church in the Americas is 1794 with monks from Valaam and the Moscow patriarchate. 2) “As of 2024, the following Patriarchates and churches have parishes in America: Constantinople, Antioch, Moscow, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, OCA, & Macedonia.” To slightly correct: “As of 2024, the following Patriarchates have churches and parishes in America: “Constantinople, Antioch, Moscow, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, & Macedonia.” Added: Then there’s the indigenous Orthodox Church of America (future Canadian & USA Orthodox Churches), which is recognized (1970) by Moscow, Bulgaria, Georgia, Poland & the Czech & Slovak Churches, but not (yet) by the Ecumenical Patriarch. Constantinople’s failure to as of yet create a pathway to official recognition for the indigenous Orthodox Church in North America continues to reflect poorly on the EP ('pope') Bartholomew.
Hahaha! What a joke you guys are. Its precisely because of people like you that there will most likely never be a unified Orthodox jurisdiction in America. Those of you most rabid about the so-called "unified American autocephalous Church" ensures through your words & actions that this dream is next to impossible.
Two items:
1) Why 150 years? 2024 - 1794 = 230 years.
Are you suggesting that multiplicity didn’t start until after it was only Russian Orthodox in America, while before there was unity?
The most commonly agreed (2nd) origin date for the arrival of the Orthodox Church in the Americas is 1794 with monks from Valaam and the Moscow patriarchate.
2) “As of 2024, the following Patriarchates and churches have parishes in America:
Constantinople, Antioch, Moscow, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, OCA, & Macedonia.”
To slightly correct: “As of 2024, the following Patriarchates have churches and parishes in America:
“Constantinople, Antioch, Moscow, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, & Macedonia.”
Added:
Then there’s the indigenous Orthodox Church of America (future Canadian & USA Orthodox Churches), which is recognized (1970) by Moscow, Bulgaria, Georgia, Poland & the Czech & Slovak Churches, but not (yet) by the Ecumenical Patriarch.
Constantinople’s failure to as of yet create a pathway to official recognition for the indigenous Orthodox Church in North America continues to reflect poorly on the EP ('pope') Bartholomew.
Hahaha! What a joke you guys are. Its precisely because of people like you that there will most likely never be a unified Orthodox jurisdiction in America. Those of you most rabid about the so-called "unified American autocephalous Church" ensures through your words & actions that this dream is next to impossible.