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Orthodox Church in America
Eastern Orthodox church in North America
Orthodox Church in America
The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America. The OCA consists of more than 680 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In 2020, it had an estimated 74,415 members in the United States. In 2015, the OCA claimed 900,000 baptized members. 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 named the Diocese of Alaska and Aleutines with the Cathedral in Sitka (founded by Russians with the name of Novoarkhangelsk). The first Orthodox missionary bishop was in 1840 Saint Innocent of Alaska. After the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, the diocese was granted jurisdiction for all North America and the see moved to San Francisco between 1872 and 1903, and later in New York City after 1903. By the late 19th century, the Russian...
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