Српска православна дијаспора и јединство Православне цркве у САД
Serbian Orthodox Diaspora and Unity of the Orthodox Church in USA

Summary/Abstract: On one territory or in one town can exist only one diocese according to the orthodox ecclesiology. Precisely speaking, it is not good for two orthodox jurisdictions to coincide at the same territory. This fact is not respected in case of the USA, Australia or Western Europe. Therefore, there is more then one diocese in one city, which coincides with each other. If we perceive the position of Serbian Orthodox Church from that point of view, we will very often find on the same territory Serbian Orthodox Church along with other Orthodox jurisdictions of lawfully recognized Orthodox Churches. So, on the same territory we can find Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian and other Orthodox Churches. On the other side OCA (Orthodox Church in America) has been established in order to gather all Orthodox worshipers in the USA, but so far it has managed to gather only lesser part of Orthodox worshipers. By far most of Orthodox worshipers stayed connected to national churches such as Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian etc. But, on the other hand it is obvious that this Church would like to reintegrate all Orthodox worshipers in the USA. From that point of view, it is clear that interests of Serbian Orthodox Church, as well as other Orthodox Churches, are opposite to politics of OCA (Orthodox Church in America).

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