Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy spread to the North American continent with the founding of Russian America, in what is today the State of Alaska. The spreading of the Orthodox faith went along with the Russian colonization of the Americas during the 18th and 19th centuries. From there, it spread to the continental United States with the influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe.
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“But we are spirits of another sort.
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And like a forester the groves may tread
Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red,
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