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var offsetleft=240
var offsettop=200

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var menul = new Array();

//configure below for menu items. Extend list as desired

menui[0]="SITE MAP";
menui[1]="READING ROOM";
menui[2]="LINK COLLECTION";
menui[3]="The Church of Constantinople";
menui[4]="The Church of Alexandria";
menui[5]="The Church of Antioch";
menui[6]="The Church of Jerusalem";
menui[7]="The Church of Russia(MP)";
menui[8]="The Church of Georgia";
menui[9]="The Church of Serbia";
menui[10]="The Church of Romania";
menui[11]="The Church of Bulgaria";
menui[12]="The Church of Cyprus";
menui[13]="The Church of Greece";
menui[14]="The Church of Albania";
menui[15]="The Church of Poland";
menui[16]="The Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia";
menui[17]="The Orthodox Church in America";
menui[18]="The Autonomous Orthodox Churches";
menui[19]="The Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai";
menui[20]="The Church of Finland";
menui[21]="The Church of Estonia";
menui[22]="The Exarchatein Western Europe";
menui[23]="The Antiochian Archdiocese of North America";
menui[24]="The Church of Japan";
menui[25]="The Church of China";
menui[26]="The Latvian Orthodox Church";
menui[27]="Russian Orthodox Church in the USA";
menui[28]="The Moldovan Orthodox Church";
menui[29]="The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia";
menui[30]="The Ukrainian Orthodox Church(MP)";
menui[31]="The Estonian Orthodox Church";
menui[32]="The Byelorussian Exarchate";
menui[33]="The Archdiocese of Ohrid";
menui[34]="The Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia";
menui[35]="The Russian Orthodox Church in America";
menui[36]="SCOBA";
menui[37]="Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America";
menui[38]="Antiochian Archdiocese of North America";
menui[39]="Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada";
menui[40]="American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese in the USA";
menui[41]="Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America and Canada";
menui[42]="Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church Diocese of America, Canada and Australia";
menui[43]="Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA";
menui[44]="Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America";
menui[45]="Russian Orthodox Church in the USA";
menui[46]="Great Schism";
menui[47]="Russian America";



menul[0]="SiteMap.htm";
menul[1]="Books/Reading-room.htm";
menul[2]="LinkCollection.htm";
menul[3]="Constantinople.htm";
menul[4]="Alexandria.htm";
menul[5]="Antioch.htm";
menul[6]="Jerusalem.htm";
menul[7]="MoscowPatriarchate.htm";
menul[8]="Georgia.htm";
menul[9]="Serbia.htm";
menul[10]="Romania.htm";
menul[11]="Bulgaria.htm";
menul[12]="Cyprus.htm";
menul[13]="Greece.htm";
menul[14]="Albania.htm";
menul[15]="Poland.htm";
menul[16]="CzechLandsAndSlovakia.htm";
menul[17]="OrthodoxChurchInAmerica.htm";
menul[18]="Autonomous.htm";
menul[19]="Sinai.htm";
menul[20]="Finland.htm";
menul[21]="EstoniaConst.htm";
menul[22]="WesternEurope.htm";
menul[23]="ArchdioceseNorthAmerica.htm";
menul[24]="Japan.htm";
menul[25]="China.htm";
menul[26]="LatvianOrthodoxChurch.htm";
menul[27]="ROCinUSA.htm";
menul[28]="Moldova.htm";
menul[29]="ROCOR.htm";
menul[30]="Ukraine.htm";
menul[31]="EstoniaRus.htm";
menul[32]="ByelorussianExarchate.htm";
menul[33]="Ohrid.htm";
menul[34]="Bessarabia.htm";
menul[35]="ROCIA.htm";
menul[36]="SCOBA.htm";
menul[37]="GreekAm.htm";
menul[38]="AntiochAm.htm";
menul[39]="SerbianAm.htm";
menul[40]="CarpathoRussianUSA.htm";
menul[41]="RomanianAm.htm";
menul[42]="BulgarianAm.htm";
menul[43]="UkrainianAm.htm";
menul[44]="AlbanianAm.htm";
menul[45]="ROCinUSA.htm";
menul[46]="GreatSchism.htm";
menul[47]="RussianAmerica.htm";


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strHtml += strRows + '</table></span>';
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