Tradition Institution Christianity
Orthodox Church in America
Russian Orthodox church in North America, granted autocephaly in 1970 by the Patriarchate of Moscow
- Dated from 1970 CE
- Also called OCA
A path that branches,
meets and parts.
Schools and lineages
Attributed founding
Whom the records name as founder
What this means
An attribution, and a contested one in most traditions: it does not mean the tradition began fully formed, nor that later adherents accept the attribution.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Alexis Toth18 March 1854 CE – 7 May 1909 CE · Greek Catholic priest, later Russian Orthodox priest and protopresbyter; Eastern Orthodox saint (1854-1909) -
Herman of Alaska1756 CE – 15 November 1837 CE · Saint, monk -
Innocent of Alaska26 August 1797 CE – 12 April 1879 CE · Russian bishop and saint (1797–1879)
Connections
How Orthodox Church in America connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 2
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure · personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
6 statements on this record
- 6 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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