Posted by Leo
on 8/7/2009, 2:21 pm
This parish in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, identified as "the first Georgian Orthodox church in NY," seems to be this OCA mission, possibly formerly housed in the OCA Cathedral in Manhattan until 6 years ago. They're looking to expand now from a borrowed room in a Catholic school, to a lot to build on.
Their priest was also involved in the purchase of a former Latin parish near Wilkes-Barre, PA, to be "a Georgian Orthodox monastery and religious center," and also serve a few dozen Georgian families in that region.
The fundraising and monastery purchase follow this spring's election of a metropolitan in Georgia to head "the Georgian parish in ... America and Canada" (see item no. 7 here), which reads as though their Bishop of Western Europe had also been serving elsewhere in their Diaspora, but now they're divvying it up into 4 additional 'jurisdictions' like everybody else: Great Britain and Ireland, North America, South America, and Australia (which, interestingly, line-up with the new Episcopal Assembly Regions coming out of that Chambesy meeting last month).
So, OCA? GP? What gives?
--Leo
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