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authio wrote:
As for the OCA parish in Tacoma, it is the one of the oldest Orthodox communities in the Pacific Northwest. So while most of the people converted as adults, the people who converted as babies have been a strong, loyal presence to that parish to make sure that the late-comers are quickly culturally aclimated into being an Orthodox Chrisitan.
Their original temple was actually consecreated by St Tikhon!
Hey, allow someone that goes to Holy Resurrection talk about it!
The original parish, Holy Trinity, is actually in Wilkeson. Wilkeson started out as a coal mining town and many Eastern Rite Catholics from the area of Galicia (part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) settled there. As well as some Orthodox. To make a very long story short, especially since I know not-that-much of it, most of the Eastern Rite folks became Orthodox. St. Tikhon consecrated the chapel in the early 1900\'s (1902 I believe).
Sometime in the 1990\'s, our parish moved to Tacoma and started up Holy Resurrection. We still use the Wilkeson church on feast days like Pentecost and some funerals and weddings. Holy Trinity is on the National Historic Registry (or whatever the name is) and if I remember correctly, is the oldest Orthodox church on the western side of the Mississippi that is outside of Alaska.
Seattle has its own perks, Orthodox-wise. St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral (ROCOR) in Seattle is were St. John Maximovitch reposed. The room has since been made into a chapel.
There are a few Greek parishes although I am not too sure of the history behind them.
There is a small ROCOR monastery on Vashon Island. Its southwest of Seattle in the Puget Sound and accessible only by ferry.
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