Author: Matthew Namee

Amazing photo collage of Antiochian priests, circa 1920

April 24, 2013

First of all, I’m really sorry for my extended absence from this website. Beginning in December, my life went pretty crazy — first the end of law school, then studying for the bar exam,…
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A Snapshot of Interwar Orthodoxy: The Ecumenical Patriarchate

December 14, 2012

Yesterday, we began publishing a series of excerpts from Matthew Spinka’s 1935 article on worldwide Orthodoxy in the years following World War I, originally published in the journal Church History.Spinka’s article is a succinct and…
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A Snapshot of Interwar Orthodoxy: Introduction

December 13, 2012

In the June 1935 issue of the journal Church History, Matthew Spinka of the Chicago Theological Seminary published a 20-page article entitled, “Post-War Eastern Orthodox Churches.” The “War” he was referring to was, of…
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Early stages of the Bulgarian schism from Constantinople

December 7, 2012

We just finished running a series of six articles on the 1872 Council of Constantinople, published contemporaneously in the Methodist Quarterly Review. The following article is from about a decade earlier, and describes the…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 6

December 6, 2012

This is the final Methodist Quarterly Review article dealing with the aftermath of the 1872 Council of Constantinople. From the Methodist Quarterly Review, April 1874. The Bulgarian Church question has, on the whole,…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 5

December 5, 2012

This article is the fifth in a six-part series on the 1872 Council of Constantinople. In this installment, we learn about the aftermath of the Council. The one bishop who refused to sign the…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 4

December 4, 2012

This article is the fourth in a six-part series on the 1872 Council of Constantinople, and this particular report covers the Council itself. It contains what is, to the best of my knowledge, the…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 3

December 3, 2012

In case you haven’t been following along, this is Part 3 in a 6-part series of articles we began last week, covering the 1872 Council of Constantinople, which famously condemned “phyletism.” All of these…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 2

November 30, 2012

Yesterday, I ran the first of six articles on the so-called “Bulgarian Question,” a controversy that rocked the Orthodox world in the early 1870s and ultimately led to the 1872 Council of Constantinople, which…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 1

November 29, 2012

Recently, I had occasion to research the 1872 Council of Constantinople, which somewhat famously condemned “ethno-phyletism.” The issue arose because, as I understand it, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church — which was under the jurisdiction…
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