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Church of the Twelve Apostles

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Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
Church of the Twelve Apostles
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Ryabikova Bulvar, 38A, Irkutsk 664043, Russia

The Orthodox Church in America is an Eastern Orthodox church, partly recognized as autocephalous, in North America. The OCA consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the United States and Canada. In 2011, it had an estimated 84,900 members in the United States. The OCA has its origins in a mission established by eight Russian Orthodox monks in Alaska, then part of Russian America, in 1794. This grew into a full diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. By the late 19th century, the Russian Orthodox Church had grown in other areas of the United States due to the arrival of immigrants from areas of Eastern and Central Europe, many of them formerly of the Eastern Catholic Churches , and from the Middle East. These immigrants, regardless of nationality or ethnic background, were united under a single North American diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. After the Bolshevik Revolution, Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow directed all Russian Orthodox churches outside of Russia to govern themselves autonomously. Orthodox churches in America became a self-governing Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America in 1924 under the leadership of Metropolitan Platon , popularly called the Metropolia. The Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America was granted autocephaly by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1970, and renamed the Orthodox Church in America. Its hierarchs are part of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America. Unlike most orthodox jurisdictions in the United States, the OCA does not have an affinity towards any particular ethnicity. Most OCA members are culturally American, and most OCA clergy are those who are born and raised in the United States. However, the OCA does have ethnic dioceses for Romanian and Albanian immigrants. Additionally, as a consequence of history, certain ethnic groups are disproportionately represented in the OCA compared to the general population. Liturgical and church traditions, such as forms of singing, vestments, iconography, use of Church Slavonic, and architecture broadly reflect those of Russian Orthodoxy. It is officially recognized as autocephalous by several Orthodox churches, mostly those based in Slavic countries. The remaining churches do not recognize the OCA as autocephalous, although they do recognize the self-governing nature of the church. While the subject of political and ecclesiastical dispute, this controversy does not impair the communion between the OCA and the wider Eastern Orthodox Church.
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