ABSTRACT
Eastern Orthodoxy is a sacramental and iconic form of Christianity that diverged from Roman Catholicism in late antiquity and was centered in Eastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean basin. It became a major presence in America with the “new” immigration. During the decades after 1880, about a million Eastern Orthodox from Russia, Greece, Ukraine, Albania, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Syria and other countries moved through New York (which became their major population center) to the Pennsylvania coal fields, the industrial cities of the Midwest and Northeast, and, in smaller numbers, the West Coast. In the Old World a decentralized “family” of separate national churches, tied to varying languages, cultures, and political systems, Eastern Orthodox churches remained diverse in America. Their members formed tight ethnic communities, coexisted uneasily, and formed a kaleidoscopic array of bodies. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315022703/d8062edf-62f8-4e77-ad3e-fdf43d7f25ef/content/ufig87_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
