Orthodox Church in America
Also known as OCA
Eastern Orthodox church in North America, granted autocephaly in 1970 by the Patriarchate of Moscow
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- OCA
- Type
- Autocephaly (partially recognized)
- Classification
- Christian
- Orientation
- Russian Orthodoxy
- Polity
- Episcopal
- Primate
- Metropolitan Tikhon (Mollard)
- Associations
- Christian Churches Together , National Council of Churches
- Language
- English , Russian , Church Slavonic , Greek , Serbian , Albanian , Bulgarian , Romanian , French , Spanish , Aleut , Tlingit , Yup'ik
- Liturgy
- Byzantine Rite
- Headquarters
- Springfield, Virginia , United States
- Territory
- United States Canada Mexico
- Possessions
- formerly Australia and South America
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