What does OCA stand for?

President Barack Obama was compared favorably to Alexander the Great on Wednesday during a White House reception honoring Greek Independence Day, with the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in America saying the president should follow the example of the ancient military conqueror to help solve some of Greece's problems.

John Garvey is a priest of the Orthodox Church in America and a Commonweal columnist.

He presents nine papers that describe the scope and contents of archival resources that are available, if underutilized, including collections of Slavic religious and cultural materials at Holy Trinity Seminary and Monastery, the library and archives of the Tolstoy Foundation, the historical resources of the Orthodox Church in America, the unpublished diaries of Michael Riabouchinsky held by the New York Public Library, Eastern European-related collections at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and personal papers of emigres in the US in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, and the Andre Savine Collection held by the U.

Leonid Kishkovsky, a member of the Orthodox Church in America and moderator of the U.

Herman's Monks Lagoon Celebrating, on these dates in 1790, the canonization of Father Herman by the Orthodox Church in America.

Seraphim Bishop of Ottawa and Canada Archdiocese of Canada of the Orthodox Church in America The Very Rev.

In a short time, Toth was so successful in leading thousands of Ruthenian Catholics to the Orthodox Church that he gave the Russian Orthodox Church in America its largest contribution of souls, thus weakening the Eastern Catholic Church and galvanizing Orthodoxy.

The Patriarch and several ranking clergy of the Georgian Orthodox Church attended an interfaith reception in honor of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America on April 19.