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Orthodox Communities in Austin
Austin, the capital city of Texas, has one old-calendar Orthodox parish, the Protection of the Holy Mother of God Russian Orthodox Church in north Austin. See its website, orthodoxaustin.org, for more information. A Serbian Orthodox parish is in formation under the leadership of Fr. Drago Popovich. Holy Protection is an English-language parish (Slavonic is used also) of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia. There was an old-calendarist church in south Austin, but it closed in 2007. The Austin area is home to five New Calendar Orthodox communities, most of which use English (in whole or in part) in divine services: Transfiguration (Greek Orthodox, in Westlake Hills west of Austin), St. Elias (Antiochian Orthodox, in downtown Austin), St. John the Forerunner (Antiochian, in Cedar Park, Texas), St. Sophia (Antiochian, in Dripping Springs, Texas), and St. Mary Romanian Orthodox Mission (in Cedar Park). The main calendar difference is that old calendar churches keep Christmas on January 7. But all Orthodox Churches keep Easter (Pascha) on the same date. The next Pascha or Orthodox Easter will be Sunday, April 24, 2011.

The canonical Orthodox Churches form one worldwide communion, including four of the five ancient apostolic sees (Jerusalem, Alexandria, Constantinople, and St. Peter’s see at Antioch), plus new Patriarchates (such as the Russian Patriarchate, the largest part of the Orthodox Church) and some 300 million communicants worldwide. Eastern Orthodoxy is the second largest Christian church in the world, and is the oldest Christian church in the world. There is not a single administration for the Orthodox Church. Instead, just as in the Undivided Church of the first thousand years after Christ, Orthodoxy has separate administrations for the regional areas where Orthodox Christians live. In the United States, the presence of large numbers of immigrants of varied national Orthodox allegiances has led to a system of pastoral care where different churches, such as the Russian, Greek, and Arab/Antiochian, are all present, caring for their ethnic groups as well as for increasingly large numbers of American converts from the Catholic, Anglican, or Protestant churches, or from pagan, new-age, atheistic, or other non-Christian backgrounds. In America, Orthodox Christians may attend the local parish of their choice.

Адрес:
P.O. Box 10692,
Austin, Texas 78766

Источник: www.allmercifulsavior.com