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A graphic labeled "flag" can be found at the webpage of the Italo-Greek
Orthodox Church Archdiocese of the Americas and Canada. See
http://www.igoarch.org/ and
http://www.igoarch.org/sm_flag.jpg.
The image shows a white cross throughout with a black outlined white
fleur-de-lis in the center. The cross is fimbriated blue bordering the upper
hoist canton, green bordering the upper fly, blue bordering the lower fly, and
red bordering the lower hoist. The cantons themselves are (clockwise from upper
hoist) white, red, white, gold. The upper hoist canton bears a gold Chi-Rho
symbol, and the lower hoist has a different symbol, which I cannot really make
out in the image, but which seems to be the symbol shown in larger scale at the
top of http://www.igoarch.org/ - three
heads of wheat and a cluster of grapes framed by its leaves.
Regarding the denomination, Wikipedia says: "The Italo-Greek Orthodox Church or
Italo-Byzantine Orthodox Church is an independent group of churches in North
America following a Greek Orthodox style of worship but with no canonical or
sacramental ties to the mainstream Eastern Orthodox Church. It is not to be
confused with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Italy, a diocese of the Orthodox
Church of Constantinople."
"In the United States, Sicilian immigrants of Orthodox faith organized the first
community in 1902 in Philadelphia, PA. From that first parish, the Church has
grown into what today is known as the Italo-Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of the
Americas and Canada, with 14 communities, headquartered in Utica, NY, and
serving Italo-Greek Orthodox Christians in the USA, Canada and North and South
America. ... It presently has one bishop, four priests and two deacons."
"The work of the Italo-Greek Orthodox Church in the Americas, Canada, Sicily and
Italy is exclusively directed to people of Sicilian and Italian descent, thereby
maintaining its historical mission as being the indigenous local Orthodox Church
of the Sicilian and Italian people. Services are celebrated in Italian and/or
English. ...The Church follows the Church (Julian) Calendar."
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Greek_Orthodox_Church
Ned Smith, 12 January 2007