This first week, we learned about the focus of this class. We learned that there are 12 canonical jurisdictions in the United States, according to the Assembly of Bishops.
Your Homework:
1. Become a Follower of the blog.
2. Look at the website for your jurisdiction. Find about your jurisdiction and post a comment to THIS blog entry telling the class one thing about your jurisdiction.
For example: My jurisdiction is the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA. I learned from their website that the diocese was created in 1938 http://www.acrod.org/diocese/about.
The Jurisdictions:
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
http://www.goarch.org/
The Albanian Orthodox Diocese
http://www.goarch.org/archdiocese/otherpatriarchal/alb
The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A
http://www.acrod.org/
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA
http://www.uocofusa.org/
The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
http://www.synod.com/synod/indexeng.htm
The Orthodox Church in America
http://www.oca.org/
The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America (OCA)
http://www.roea.org/
The Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas
http://www.romarch.org/
The Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate
http://mospat.ru/en/
The Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
http://www.antiochian.org/
The Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America
http://www.serborth.org/
The Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada, and Australia
http://www.bulgariandiocese.org/
Georgian Orthodox Church
