A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Maps of Serbian Orthodox Church in North America

by Alexei D. Krindatch, the research coordinator with the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America

  • Serbian Orthodox Church in North America: Number of Parishes by State (2010) (including mission parishes and monastic communites)
  • Serbian Orthodox Church in North America: Number of Adherents by County (2010)

 

Further information:

  • Spasovic, Stanimir. The History of the Serbian Orthodox Church in America and Canada. 1941-1991. Belgrade: Printing House of the Serbian Patriarchate, 1998.
  • Vukovic, Bishop Sava. History of the Serbian Orthodox Church in America and Canada, 1891-1941. Kragujevac, Serbia: Kalenic Press, 1998.
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Mitchell Paige

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Serbian American Contributions in Amador County, California, since the Gold Rush
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