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Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America

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==History==
The first Orthodox Serbian immigrants arrived in mid nineteenth century in California and Louisiana where they participated in the founding of some of the first Orthodox parishes in the United States. During the latter part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century additional ethnic Serbs arrived. In 1892, the first Serbian Orthodox parish was established in Jackson, California by [[Archimandrite]] [[Sebastian (Dabovich)]]. He was the first Orthodox [[priest]] who was born in the United States. The Serbian parishes that formed during these time generally were served under the multi-ethnic Russian North American mission.
While [[Tikhon of Moscow|Abp. Tikhon]]'s plans included the consecration of ethnic [[auxiliary bishop]]s, the first attempts at forming a Serbian diocese was made in 1913, under the then Metropolitanate of Belgrade. But, this attempt failed as the Metropolitanate did not respond to the requests from America and the 19 Serbian parishes remained with the Russian diocese.
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