Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2010 - Cokesbury

US RELIGIOUS BODIES
of unity by a return to the Julian Calendar and traditional
ecclesiastical polity by the State Church.
About 1.5 million Orthodox Greeks belong to the
Old Calendar Church.
The first Old Calendarist communities in the
United States were formed in the 1930s. The
Exarchate under Metropolitan Cyprian was established
in 1986. Placing emphasis on clergy education,
youth programs, and recognition of the Old
Calendarist minority in American Orthodoxy, the
Exarchate has encouraged the establishment of
monastic communities and missions. Cordial contacts
with the New Calendarist and other Orthodox
communities are encouraged. A center for theological
training and Patristic studies has been established
at the Exarchate headquarters in Etna,
California.
In July 1994, the True Orthodox Church of
Greece (Synod of Metropolitan Cyprian), the True
Orthodox Church of Romania, the True Orthodox
Church of Bulgaria, and the Russian Orthodox
Church Abroad entered into liturgical union, forming
a coalition of traditionalist Orthodox bodies
several million strong.
Headquarters
St. Gregory Palamas Monastery, P.O. Box 398,
Etna, CA 96027-0398, Tel. (530)467-3228 Fax
(530) 467-5828
Media Contact, Exarch in America, His
Eminence, Archbishop Chrysostomos
Officers
Acting Synodal Exarch in America, His Grace
Bishop Auxentios
Chancellor of the Exarchate, The Very Rev.
Raphael Abraham, 3635 Cottage Grove Ave.
S.E., Cedar Rapids, IA 52403-1612
Periodicals
Orthodox Tradition
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the
U.S.A.*
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
has its origin in the ancient lands of Rus-Ukraine
(present day Ukraine). It was to the inhabitants of
these lands that the Apostle Andrew first
preached the Gospel. Christianization began
early in the history of Rus-Ukraine by missionaries
from the Orthodox Christian See of
Constantinople. In 988 AD, the Saintly Prince
Volodymyr, crowned a process of Christian
Evangelization begun in the 4th century, by personally
accepting Orthodox Christianity and
inspiring his subjects to do the same. The baptism
of Volodymyr, his household and the inhabitants
of Kyiv, altered the face of Kyivan Rus-
Ukraine and Slavic history for all time. Kyiv
became the spiritual heart of Orthodox Christians
in Rus-Ukraine. It was from this See that missionaries
were sent into every corner of St.
Volodymyr’s realm. Through their efforts the
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Gospel was preached and new communities were
established. The Mother Church of Kyiv and its
See of Saint Sophia, modeled after
Constantinople’s See of the same name, gave
birth to many Orthodox Christian centers and
communities in the west, east and north of the
Dnipro river, among them the Orthodox
Christian See of Moscow, Russia (Rosia).
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of USA ministers
to the needs of the faithful whose ancestral
roots are in Ukraine. The Church found haven in
America in the early 1920’s. Its first bishop,
Metropolitan Ioan (John) Teodorovych, arrived
from Ukraine in 1924 and shepherded the
Church as Metropolitan until his death in 1971.
His successor, Archbishop Mstyslav, arrived in
the USA in 1950, and shepherded the Church as
Metropolitan from 1971 until his death in 1993.
It was Metropolitan Mstyslav who, as a consequence
of Ukraine’s independence, was named
Patriarch of Kyiv and All Ukraine, in 1990.
Previous to 1996 there were two Ukrainian
Orthodox jurisdictions in the USA. Formal unification
of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the
USA, shepherded by His Beatitude Metropolitan
Constantine, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
of America, shepherded by His Grace Bishop
Vsevolod, was concluded in November 1996.
Headquarters
Saint Andrew the Firstcalled Apostle Ukrainian
Orthodox Church Center, P.O. Box 495, South
Bound Brook, NJ 08880, Tel. (732)356-0090
Fax (732)356-5556
Media Contact, His Eminence Antony, Archbishop
of New York, Consistory President
Email: consistory@uocofusa.org
Website: www.uocofusa.org
Officers
Metropolitan, His Beatitude Constantine, 1803
Sidney Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
CENTRAL EPARCHY
Eparchial Bishop, Metropolitan Constantine
Eparchial See, St. Volodymyr Cathedral, 5913
State Rd., Parma, OH 44134, Tel. (440) 885-
1509
Eparchial Territory: Florida, Georgia, Ohio,
Western Pennsylvania
EASTERN EPARCHY
Eparchial Bishop, Archbishop Antony.
Eparchial Seat, St. Volodymyr Cathedral, 160
West 82nd St. New York, NY 10024, Tel.
(212) 873-8550
Eparchial Territory: Connecticut, Deleware,
Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island
WESTERN EPARCHY
Eparchial Bishop, Archbishop Vsevolod
Eparchial Seat, St. Volodymyr Cathedral, 2230-
50 West Cortez St. Chicago, IL 60622, Tel.
(312)278 2827