Cultures/Communities

Holy St. Olaf, pray to God for us! A cyberplace for Orthodox Christians who are: Scandinavians, hyphenated descendants of the Scandinavian diaspora, Upper Midwestern Americans, and/or interested in Scandinavian-Slavic and early Christian North Sea cultures or the Orthodox heritage of Scandinavia: The Lake Wobegone of Orthodox Circle. A friendly shoutout to the Finno-Ugric Orthodox group from Ambassador Angela. Helpful web addresses (please add to this list): Holy Martyr-King Olaf http://www.orthodox.net/western-saints/olaf-martyr-king-of-norway.html, Feast Day July 29 St. Sunniva(r) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sunniva Feast Day July 8 St. Halvar(d) http://travel.aol.co.uk/travel-guides/europe-guides/norway/oslo/view-guide/history Feast Day, May 15 St Anskar, www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anskar.html Feast Day, Feb. 3 Early Orthodoxy in Iceland, http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/oeiceland.htm Denmark's Jelling-stenene, http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelling-stenene, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelling_stones Orthodoxy in Norway, St. Nicholas Chuch, Oslo, http://home.online.no/~thorosl/Kirkeside/ Moscow Patriarchate in Norway http://www.ortodoks.no/norsk.html Orthodoxy in Finland, http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=25813 Holy Protection of the Theotokos Church, Copenhagen, http://www.ortodoks.dk/ History of Russian Orthodox Church in Sweden, http://www.sweden.orthodoxy.ru/Engelska/index.htm---------------------------------- History of early Orthodoxy in Greenland and Vinland, http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/PhillipsAmerica.php Varangians (Scandinavians in Rus and Byzantium), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians early Finland, http://www.finland.com/viking.htm Learn Old Norse at home in your spare time, http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/ ------ Varangians and the Kievan Caves, http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/2_98/lavra.htm-----"Orthodox Viking" blog, http://orthodoxviking.blogspot.com/ Scandinavian diaspora in the U.S. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/911.html, Scandinavian food in the U.S. (besides the IKEA cafeteria), http://www.wikstromsgourmet.com/, http://www.michigan.org/travel/detail.asp?m=&p=B7234, http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/dining/28769,0,2064028.venue?coll=mmx-dining_brunch_features--------------------Kierkegaard and Dostovesky, http://www.metanexus.net/conference2003/pdf/WOLPaper_Cherkasova_Evgenia.pdf

This group is for all Christians who are interested in Armenian Church & Culture.

All Orthodox are welcome to join. This is an Antiochian group where the main languages are English & Arabic.

This is a place to discuss the lives, writings and anything else related to North American Saints.

The group for those interested in the spirituality, liturgy and history of the pre-conquest Church in England.

Here we discuss the challenges that North American ideas and culture pose to the healthy development and spread of Orhtodoxy.

Serb or Serbian Orthodox

If you enjoy or are interested in the Greek language used in the Church or by today's Greek speakers, this is the place.

A group for those of African descent, and everyone else interested in Orthodoxy in Africa. I believe that this would be a great resource for evangelization, that Orthodoxy is for everyone, everywhere, even for blacks in the United States, for instance.

Que Dios ha sido alabado y glorificado en Latinoamerica en el corazon de sus pueblos y que el pueblo latinoamericano siempre a sido un pueblo centrado en la comunidad cristiana, es claro. Hoy en dia, el pueblo latinoamericano esta pasando por un caos espiritual. Todavia se desconoce la ortodoxia en nuestros paises. Tengo la idea que estamos viviendo en la generacion en que la verdadera fe de frutos en nuestros pueblos.

This group is for all Orthodox Christians who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as their friends and relatives.

Ortodoksaj Kristanoj kiuj parolas Esperanton kaj kiuj volas varbi la lingvon inter aliaj Ortodoksuloj. Esperanto speaking Orthodox who want to promote the language among other Orthodox.

This is a group for those Eastern Orthodox Christians who don't feel called to be a monastic but, for whatever reason, cannot canonically be or even just do not wish to be married and who live according to the teachings of the Church. We cybermeet for mutual support, fellowship, and if we're lucky, to find a chaste life companion or even a group of such, to help us work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Living alone, in Community, or sharing living space one-on-one we need to be seen as worthwhile members of the Church, no more or less worthy than monastics or married folks.

This group, which started on Yahoo, now comes to Orthodox Circle. The group's primary focus is on helping those who are not called to monasticism to find an Orthodox spouse. However, those who are not yet ready for marriage are also welcome to join for fellowship with other Orthodox singles. (Note: those who have no intention of ever getting married are directed to the "Non-Monastic Singles" group elsewhere on the Circle).

Do your ears perk up when you hear Greek, Slavonic, Coptic, or Syriac? Are you jealous of multi-lingual immigrants? Let's talk about languages!