The first edition (2011) of the Atlas provides a historic, geographic and statistical overview of the various Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches in the United States.
Thematically, the book unfolds in four parts:
- Chapter 1 looks at a historic timeline of Orthodox Christianity in America
- Chapter 2 is an overview of twenty-one national Orthodox Church bodies. Twenty-one articles offer historic and other information about each Church. For each Church, we also provide two maps: a state-by-state map of parishes and county-by-county map of membership.
- Chapter 3 is devoted to Orthodox monasteries in the United States
- Chapter 4 furnishes data from the first National Census of US Orthodox Christian Churches. Charts and maps in this chapter contain statistics of parishes, membership and church attendance: state-by-state and county-by-county”
“Assembling a mass of recently obtained data, the Atlas of American Orthodox Christian Churches provides an authoritative overview of a most important but often neglected segment of American Christian community. Protestant and Catholic Christians will value Alexei Krindatch’s survey of both Eastern Orthodoxy as a whole and its multiple American expressions”
– J. Gordon Melton, Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Based on the results of the 2020 Census of the American Orthodox Churches, it is our hope to produce a revised and fully updated 2020 edition of the Atlas.
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