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− | </div | + | </div>'''[[OrthodoxWiki:Welcome|Welcome]]''' to '''[[OrthodoxWiki:About|OrthodoxWiki]]''', a free-content encyclopedia and information center for '''[[Orthodox Christianity]]''' that '''anyone can edit'''. In this English version, started in November 2004, we are currently working on '''[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] [[Special:Allpages|articles]]'''. Please '''[[Special:Userlogin|register or login]]''' to post or revise content.<br> |
− | The OrthodoxWiki editors have taken St. [[John of Damascus]] as their heavenly [[patron saint|patron]] and intercessor as they seek to further the worship and knowledge of the All-Holy [[Trinity]] and the faith of the [[Orthodox Church]] | + | The OrthodoxWiki editors have taken St. [[John of Damascus]] as their heavenly [[patron saint|patron]] and intercessor as they seek to further the worship and knowledge of the All-Holy [[Trinity]] and the faith of the [[Orthodox Church]] on these pages. |
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The OrthodoxWiki editors have taken St. John of Damascus as their heavenly patron and intercessor as they seek to further the worship and knowledge of the All-Holy Trinity and the faith of the Orthodox Church on these pages.
New: Visit the OrthodoxWiki Promotional Store—a great place to do your Christmas shopping!
Today's feastsApril 20: Saint Theodore Trichinas ("the Hair-shirt Wearer"), hermit near Constantinople; Saint Anastasius, abbot of Sinai; Blessed Gregory and Blessed Anastasius, Patriarchs of Antioch; Hieromartyr Anastasius II, Patriarch of Antioch; Venerable Alexander, abbot of Oshevensk; Child-martyr Gabriel of Slutsk; Saints Betran and Theotimus, Bishops in Lesser Scythia; Saints Athanasius and Ioasaph of Meteora, monks; Apostle Zacchaeus, Bishop of Caesarea; Saint Caedwalla (Peter), King of Wessex; Saint Joseph of Serbia; Martyrs Victor, Zoticos, Zeno, Acindynos, and Severian of Nicomedia; 6,000 martyrs of the St. David Gareji Monastery, Georgia; translation of the relics of Saint Nicholas Velimirovich, Bishop of Ochrid and Zicha; New Hieromartyr Theodosius (Ganitsky), bishop of Kolomenskoye (1937); repose of Schemamonk Ignatius of Saint Nicephorus Monastery in Olonets.
Featured articleThe Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora."
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