Published in the Orthodox Observer, November-December 2018 - page 25 St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Lorain, Ohio Founded:  1923 ----- The Orthodox Christian presence in this Cleveland suburb of about 65,000 consists of churches in four jurisdictions, of which St. Nicholas is the largest.  Located along Lake Erie some 30 miles west of Cleveland, the city, beginning in the early1900s, attracted Greek immigrants primarily from Thebes in Central Greece and Corinth in the Pelo- ponnese, according to information from Fr. Gulgas, the parish’s longest-serving priest. The remainder came from northern Greece, along with a few Cypriots and Greek Islanders. The last major influx of Greeks to Lorain was about 60 years ago, making the majority of the parish second- and third-generation Greeks. Immigrants coming to Lorain established businesses or were drawn by major industries that formed the basis of Lorain’s economy for most of the 1900s, including the American Ship Building ...