Terminology - DIOCESE

Term	Definition
CATHEDRAL	CATHEDRAL – The church of a diocese in which the bishop has his permanent throne or cathedra; usually and properly the cathedral is found in the town from which the diocese takes its name and where the bishop lives.
ARCHDIOCESE	ARCHDIOCESE – An ecclesiastical territory governed by an archbishop.
Brief History of the Diocese of New York and New Jersey	Brief History of the Diocese of New York and New Jersey The Diocese of New York and New Jersey is a diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) that existed from 1981-2005, was combined with the Diocese of Washington in 2005 to form the Diocese of Washington and New York and was re-established in 2009. But the first presence of Orthodoxy in New York City can is traced to 1870, when Father Nicholas Bjerring, a convert from Denmark, was directed by Metropolitan Isidore of St. Petersburg to open the first Orthodox Church in New York City. Services for the congregation were held in a chapel within Fr. Nicholas’s house. In 1885 the Russian government withdrew its support of the mission due to the small membership.

Term

Definition

CATHEDRAL – The church of a diocese in which the bishop has his permanent throne or cathedra; usually and properly the cathedral is found in the town from which the diocese takes its name and where the bishop lives.

ARCHDIOCESE

ARCHDIOCESE – An ecclesiastical territory governed by an archbishop.

Brief History of the Diocese of New York and New Jersey

The Diocese of New York and New Jersey is a diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) that existed from 1981-2005, was combined with the Diocese of Washington in 2005 to form the Diocese of Washington and New York and was re-established in 2009. But the first presence of Orthodoxy in New York City can is traced to 1870, when Father Nicholas Bjerring, a convert from Denmark, was directed by Metropolitan Isidore of St. Petersburg to open the first Orthodox Church in New York City. Services for the congregation were held in a chapel within Fr. Nicholas’s house. In 1885 the Russian government withdrew its support of the mission due to the small membership.