Polish Orthodox Church

[Esteban]

The Church of Poland does indeed have overseas parishes--in Portugal, Brazil, and Sardinia. See the directory here:

http://www.orthodox.pl/Administracja/zagranica.htm

The Portuguese and Brazilian parishes formerly belonged to the Milan Synod.

Also, there are some parishes in the OCA that have several Polish parishiones. For instance, the St Joseph Church in Wheaton, IL has some Old Calendar festal Liturgies for the local, and rather large, Polish community, which are very well attended.

I hope this is helpful!

--Julio

[rightbyyou]

Very helpful. Thank you kindly for this information.

[Felipe Ortiz]

The Church of Poland does indeed have overseas parishes--in Portugal, Brazil, and Sardinia. See the directory here:

http://www.orthodox.pl/Administracja/zagranica.htm

The Portuguese and Brazilian parishes formerly belonged to the Milan Synod.

Yes, that's true. And as far as I know the clergy and the parishioners are not Poles, but Brazilian or Portuguese converts. Services are performed in Portuguese.

Formerly they were a branch of the Milan Synod that wished to be part of a World Orthodoxy jurisdiction and were accepted by the Poles.

[хорист]

joasia:

Cool! I'm 100%.

Neat!

But, as far as I know, the Polish Orthodox go to the Russians and some to the other nationalities. I go to the Russians and have found that I can understand alot. Plus, there are alot of Russians in my church(older generation, of course), who speak Polish. I feel like I can relate to the culture. With some differences of course.

Ah, ok, that's cool. I don't speak a lick of Polish so I wouldn't actually be able to understand a Liturgy done in Polish OR in Russian.

romiosini

Christ is Risen!

Well, I know that the Autocephalous Metropolis of the Polish Orthodox Church does not any parishes out of Poland.

Ok, thanks for clarifying.

That would means that Church would have to deal with Constantinople... Well, I know there are Polish Parishes, and if I am correct the only two synods that might have Polish churches at all might be OCA and ROCOR. I'm not too sure though, so I don't reassure you if I'm 100% sure. I only heard of this.

I see.

joasia:

I don't know of any church that does Orthodox Liturgy in Polish.

That's too bad. I would think that if enough Polish Orthodox immigrants came to America that they would have a few Parishes scattered throughout the country. In my city there used to be two Roman Catholic churches (now there is only one) comprised entirely of Polish people and the entire Mass was done in the Polish language.

Seems to me in any case that the Polish Orthodox Church uses Church Slavonic as the principal language in any case - although my Polish skills are not that great. Here is what they say on their website - perhaps a Polish speaker could verify this?
http://www.orthodox.pl/glowna.htm then open Jezyk

[Priest Siluan]

The Church of Poland does indeed have overseas parishes--in Portugal, Brazil, and Sardinia. See the directory here:

http://www.orthodox.pl/Administracja/zagranica.htm

The Portuguese and Brazilian parishes formerly belonged to the Milan Synod.

Yes, that's true. And as far as I know the clergy and the parishioners are not Poles, but Brazilian or Portuguese converts. Services are performed in Portuguese.

Formerly they were a branch of the Milan Synod that wished to be part of a World Orthodoxy jurisdiction and were accepted by the Poles.

In that time it was not still known as Synod of Milan, but like Autonomous Orthodox Church of Western Europe (Genuine Orthodox Church Of Greece), that is to say it is an autonomous part of GOC of Greece (that is what claims the Synod of Milan at this moment), the name Synod of Milan was given to them later, when Portuguese Hierarches entered in communion with Polish Church, because the bishops that remained in the Metropolis Autonomous lived in Italy.

[joasia]

I wonder why they don't have jurisdictions in North America.

[romiosini]

I wonder why they don't have jurisdictions in North America.

I can answer that.

Joanna, I think from the Polish Church's point of view, there are too many jurisdictions allready. Better go with ROCOR or OCA, who have some priests of polish decent.