Patriarchial Parishes in Canada

The Patriarchal Parishes of Russian Orthodox Church in

Canada is a canonical unit of the Moscow Patriarchate in Canada.
Patriarchial Parishes in
The headquarters of the church is in Edmonton; home to St. Canada
Barbara Cathedral. From Edmonton, two traveling priests serve a Abbreviation PPC
number of rural churches. Other parishes are located in Toronto
Formation 1890
and Ottawa.
Type religious
organization in
History Canada

Orthodox believers first came to Canada in large numbers from the Legal status active
Austro-Hungarian province of Bukovina in the 1890s, and they Purpose advocate and
settled mostly in the prairie provinces. Most self-identified as public voice,
Ruthenians or Ukrainians but some were Russophiles; all of them educator and
were without any Orthodox priests. The Russian Church had prior network
claim to all of North America because of its missionary activity in
Alaska and California. The first Orthodox service in Canada was Headquarters Edmonton,
held in 1897 by the Reverend Dimitri Kamnev and Deacon Alberta
Vladimir Alexandrov. They had been dispatched by Bishop Region Canada
Nicholas of the Russian Orthodox Church Mission in San served
Francisco, USA to the tiny settlement of Wostok near
Official English
Edmonton.[1] language French
After the Russian Revolution, many Orthodox believers in Parent Moscow
Western Canada defected to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church organization Patriarchate
or the new Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church of Canada. Those
Website
Orthodox churches in Canada that stayed with the Moscow Official
Patriarchate, primarily in Alberta, combined with later churches Website (htt
built in Eastern Canada, formed the basis for what is now known p://www.orthod
as the Patriarchal Parishes of Russian Orthodox Church in Canada. ox-canada.co
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Cathedral
St. Barbara Church in Edmonton was founded in 1902. The
original building, sitting on the same site as the present on top
of Grierson Hill, was a converted two-story residence. It was
replaced by a wooden church that was used until 1958. The
third and present building was opened officially opened
August 8, 1959, and was consecrated as a cathedral.[2] In
2010, the iconostas was replaced with icons from Russia attached to a screen carved by a parishioner who
is also a master woodworker.[3]

References
1. Russian Orthodox Church in Canada. "History of Patriarchial Parishes of Russian Orthodox
Church in Canada" (http://www.orthodox-canada.com/about-us/history/). Edmonton, AB.
Retrieved October 5, 2010.
2. Lawrence Herzog. "Worshipping Edmontons Historic Churches" (https://web.archive.org/we
b/20070927215124/http://www.rewedmonton.ca/content_view2?CONTENT_ID=148). Real
Estate Weekly. Edmonton, AB: REALTORS Association of Edmonton. Archived from the
original (http://www.rewedmonton.ca/content_view2?CONTENT_ID=148) on September 27,
2007. Retrieved October 5, 2010.
3. David Finlayson. "This job was extra-special" (https://edmontonjournal.com/story_print.html?
id=3616244&sponsor=). Edmonton Journal. Edmonton, AB. Retrieved October 5, 2010.

External links
Official Website (http://www.orthodox-canada.com/)
Early history of Orthodoxy in Canada (http://www.ukrainianchurchesofcanada.ca/history/earl
y_period.html)

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