| LC control no. | n 81071413 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Orthodox Church in America |
| Variant(s) | Avtokefalʹnai︠a︡ Amerikanskai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ Authocephalous Orthodox Church in America Pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ v Amerike OCA (Orthodox Church in America) Orthodox Church of America |
| See also | Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ. Ėkzarkhat v Severnoĭ i I︠U︡zhnoĭ Amerike |
| Found in | Avtokefalii︠a︡ Russkoĭ pravoslavnoĭ ... 1970. The Orthodox Church in Cleveland, Ohio, 1999. Khram Svi︠a︡toĭ Velikomuchenit︠s︡y Ekateriny na Vspolʹe ..., 2010: cover (Orthodox Church in America) page 3 (OCA) Johnson, D. Main streets of Nazareth, 2012: back cover (artwork courtesy of the Orthodox Church of America) Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ, official website of the Moscow Patriarchate, viewed April 5, 2011: link to Eparkhii i ėkzarkhaty page, article on Patriarchal Parishes in the United States (when the Moscow Patriarch decreed Pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ v Amerike autocephalous in 1970, the Exarchate in North and South America was replaced by Patriarshie prikhody v Soedinennykh Shtatakh i Kanade, which became two separate vicariates of the Moscow eparchy in 1987; most of the parishes in the former Exarchate remained under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate, but a few switched to that of the Orthodox Church in America) Orthodox Church in America website, viewed April 3, 2023 (Orthodox Church in America; the Orthodox Church in America traces its origins to the arrival in Kodiak, Alaska, of eight Orthodox missionaries from the Valaamo Monastery (in the northern Karelia region of Russia) in 1794; today, the Orthodox Church in America numbers some 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries, and institutions throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico) <https://www.oca.org/> English Wikipedia, viewed April 3, 2023 (Orthodox Church in America; OCA; an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America; it is partly recognized as autocephalous and consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the United States, Canada and Mexico) |
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