Paisius Velichkovsky or Wieliczkowski was an Eastern Orthodox monk and theologian who helped spread staretsdom or the concept of the spiritual elder to the Slavic world. He is a pivotal figure in Orthodox Church history.
Eastern Christian monasticism is the life followed by monks and nuns of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Church of the East and some Eastern Catholic Churches.
The Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery and School of Theology in Libertyville, Illinois is a monastery and professional theological school in the Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada. The school is a collocated facility with the monastery.
New Gračanica Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery complex is located in Third Lake, Illinois, United States, a suburb of Chicago. The complex houses a scaled-up replica of the Gračanica monastery in Kosovo. It is a part of the Diocese of New Gracanica - Midwestern America. It has 300 acres of land, making it the 6th largest monastery among the 80 American Orthodox Christian monasteries.
Amma (Mother) Sarah of the Desert was one of the early Desert Mothers who is known to us today through the collected Sayings of the Desert Fathers and of the Holy Women Ascetics. She was a hermit and followed a life dedicated to strict asceticism for some sixty years.
The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of New Gračanica and Midwestern America or Serbian Orthodox Diocese of New Gračanica and Midwestern America is a Serbian Orthodox Church diocese located in the midwestern region of the United States. Its headquarters are in Third Lake, Illinois. The diocese operates 69 churches and parishes in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America or Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America is a Serbian Orthodox Church diocese located in the western region of the United States. Its headquarters are in Alhambra, California. The primary mission of the Diocese of Western America is to preserve and foster the faith, heritage, traditions, and culture, and religious and national values of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and to provide spiritual guidance to more than 600,000 Serbian-Americans in almost 50 churches, parishes, monasteries and children's summer camps in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. It also covers the territory of Mexico.
The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Eastern America or Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America is a Serbian Orthodox Church diocese of the United States. Before 1984 it was known as the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Eastern America and Canada.
The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Canada is a diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church. As of 18 May 2024, with the elevation of Bishop Mitrofan Kodić to Archbishop of Toronto and Metropolitan of Canada his Canadian diocese is now the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of Canada, the first in North America.
The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Australia and New Zealand is an Eastern Orthodox diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, with jurisdiction over Australia and New Zealand. Since 2011, it has an honorary rank of Metropolitanate. Its headquarters are in Renwick Street, Alexandria, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Bishop Siluan (Mrakić) of Australia and New Zealand was enthroned on 22 October 2016 at the St. George Historic Cathedral in Cabramatta by Longin (Krčo) of the Diocese of New Gracanica - Midwestern America.
The Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America is a constituent and integral part of the one and only Serbian Orthodox Church (Patriarchate) and therefore the jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) in the Americas. It has five eparchies (dioceses), that were reorganized in 2009. It also has a central church council made up of diocesan bishops, and almost 220 churches, chapels, monasteries and sketes in the United States, Canada, and South and Central America.
There are several Serbian communities in South America.
St. Nilus Skete, founded in 1999, is a women's monastic institution of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America, under the omophorion of Bishop Maksim Vasiljević of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America. It is located on Nelson Island near Ouzinkie in Alaska, less than an hour's boat ride from Kodiak Island. St. Nilus Skete is the most remote of all 80 Orthodox Christian monasteries in North America. Their 50-acre island is inhabited only by the monastics. In the winter months when the ocean becomes rough, the nuns on St. Nilus Island can be left isolated from the rest of civilization for days and weeks at a time.
St. Pachomious Monastery is a women's monastic community located on Route 1 in Greenfield, Missouri, US. The monastery, named after Pachomius the Serb, is part of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America and under the omophorion of Bishop Longin (Krčo) of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of New Gračanica and Midwestern America. The sisters within the community derive their income from donations, prayer ropes, and church candles. The monastery has a guest house dedicated to hospitality and a chapel open to guests.
St. Archangel Michael Skete is an Eastern Orthodox monastery on Spruce Island, Alaska. It is three miles away from Monk’s Lagoon, where Saint Herman of Alaska lived 200 years ago. He was called a saint by the people long before the church recognized him as such. St. Archangel Michael Skete is under the omophorion of Bishop Maksim Vasiljević of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America.
St. Xenia Serbian Orthodox Monastery is a women's monastic community of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America, located at 40500 Highway 36 West in Wildwood, California since its founding in 1980. It is under the omophorion of Bishop Maksim Vasiljević of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America. It is affiliated with the Monastery of St. Herman of Alaska in Platina, California and St. Herman Press.
The Saint Herman of Alaska Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery located in Platina, California. It is part of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America. The monastery was founded by Seraphim Rose and Herman Podmoshensky back in 1968 with the blessing of Bishop John Maximovitch of the Diocese of San Francisco and Western America of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). The monastery was founded in 1970 and only since 2000, the monastics serve under the omophor of Bishop Maksim Vasiljević of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Western America. The monks there lead ascetic lives.
St. Mark Church Monastery also known as St. Mark's Monastery is a Serbian Orthodox Church monastery located in Sheffield, Ohio, now under the omophor of Bishop Irinej Dobrijević of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Eastern America. The monastery church was initially modelled after the medieval Marko's Monastery in Skoplje in Northern Macedonia. Located just west of the monastery church is the St. Mark Church Cemetery. The patronal feast day of the monastery is 8 May.
