Diocese of the Midwest | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Territory | Midwestern United States |
| Metropolitan | Tikhon (Mollard) |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | Five Cathedrals, 54 full parishes, 10 missions, 9 chapels |
| Members | 9,000 official members up to 20,000 active parishioners (2023) |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox |
| Rite | Byzantine Rite |
| Secular priests | 83 active priests, 63 active deacons and 30 retired priests |
| Language | English, Church Slavonic, Russian, Ukrainian |
| Current leadership | |
| Parent church | Orthodox Church in America |
| Archbishop | Daniel (Brum) |
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 The states in which the Diocese of the Midwest has jurisdiction. | |
| Website | |
| midwestdiocese | |
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The Diocese of the Midwest is a diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Its territory includes parishes, monasteries, missions, and chapels located in twelve states in the Midwestern United States – Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The diocesan chancery is located on North Wood Street in Chicago, Illinois.
The diocese of the Midwest is under the omophorion of Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest Daniel (Brum). There is more than a hundred full time clergy under the Diocese including 83 active priest and 63 deacons,[1] alongside them are hundreds of part time choir directors, subdeacons and readers.The diocese is also the largest non ethnic diocese in the OCA on the continental United states and is the largest diocese in terms of active parishioners within the OCA.[2] The diocese stands out as one of the most historic in the OCA with many parishes dating back to the late 1890s,[3] the diocese was also the epicenter of the mass conversion of Eastern Catholic Americans to orthodoxy between the 1890s-1920s in much part thanks to the labors of the former Eastern Catholic priest St. Alexis Toth who brought more than 20,000 to the church by the end of his life.[4]
- ^ "Clergy listing Diocese of the Midwest". oca.org.
- ^ "Wisdom On Wheels episode 9". youtube.com. April 19, 2023.
- ^ "Holy trinity Cathedral". oca.org.
- ^ Stoke, Mark, Kishkovsky, Leonid (1995). The orthodox church America 1794-1994. Orthodox Christian Publication Center. ISBN 978-0-8664-2053-2.
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