Author: Matthew Namee
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1922
Here are links to the previous five articles in this series on the global Orthodox crisis of 1917-25: 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 As 1921 turned to 1922, the Church of Greece rejected…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1921
Here are links to the previous four articles in this series on the global Orthodox crisis of 1917-25: 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 In February 1921, the Red Army invaded Georgia, capturing Tbilisi and…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1920
Here are links to the previous three articles in this series on the global Orthodox crisis of 1917-25: 1917 1918 1919 1920 In January 1920, the Ecumenical Patriarchate issued an encyclical “Unto the Churches…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1919
This article is the third in a series on the crisis that engulfed Orthodoxy in the period from 1917 to 1925. Previously, I covered the years 1917 and 1918. Today, we’re moving on to…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1918
In my previous article, I began a series on the the chaotic nine-year stretch from 1917 to 1925 — an era that nearly destroyed the Orthodox Church, and produced the global Orthodox context in…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1917
Orthodoxy is currently facing a global crisis of unity. While we might be tempted to despair of the well-being of the Church, it is helpful to remember that, not so long ago, Orthodoxy faced…
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The Pan-Orthodox Council of 1998
Beginning in the post-Communist era in the early 1990s, a faction of schismatics emerged in Bulgaria, breaking away from the canonical Bulgarian Orthodox Church. These schismatics — known as the “Alternative Synod” — elected…
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Was Crete really the first “Pan-Orthodox Council” in centuries?
In the run-up to what was hoped to be a Great and Holy Council in 2016, many church leaders and commentators emphasized that this was a monumental event, the first time in X years…
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The Legacy of Father Nicola Yanney
What follows is the text I used for a talk on Fr. Nicola Yanney on October 28, 2018, at a pilgrimage in Kearney, Nebraska, commemorating the 100th anniversary of his repose. Audio and video…
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Who was “Agapius Honcharenko”?
Note: Last week, we met Fr. Agapius Honcharenko, who served the first known Orthodox liturgies in New York (or, for that matter, the United States of America — remember, this is when Alaska was…