Author: Fr. Matthew Francis

The Mysterious Roots of Orthodoxy in Canada

Jun 3, 2010

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Fr. Matthew Francis

in Firsts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

No one knows for certain when and where the first Orthodox Divine Liturgy was served in Canada. The first documented Liturgy was served in June 1897 by the Seattle-based missionary Fr. Dimitri Kamnev (assisted by Vladimir Alexandrov, then a reader) in a field belonging to Theodore Nemirsky at Wostok, Alberta. At this Liturgy, approximately six-hundred…
Archbishop Arseny: The Context for Canonization — Part One

May 4, 2010

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by

Fr. Matthew Francis

in Orthodoxy in the Americas

(Editor’s note: Today, we are very pleased to introduce a new author here at OrthodoxHistory.org. Deacon Matthew Francis lives in Edmonton, Alberta, and is one of the leading historians of Orthodoxy in Canada. For some time now, he has been conducting independent research into the life of Archbishop Arseny Chagovtsov, among many other aspects of…