Category: Global Orthodoxy
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Reconstructing the life of St. Andrew
This has nothing to do with American Orthodox history, but given what I know of our readership here, I think many of you will greatly enjoy this article. It’s an interview with Greek author…
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“Thank you; we have the original.”
Most of the time, on this website, we talk about the history of Orthodoxy in the Americas. But it’s important to remember that, especially in the 19th century, American Protestant missionaries were traveling in…
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Isabel Hapgood on St. John of Kronstadt
A couple of weeks ago, we reprinted St. Alexander Hotovitzky’s 1904 account of his meeting with St. John of Kronstadt. Nearly a decade earlier, the famous translator Isabel Hapgood wrote her own profile of St.…
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St. Alexander Hotovitzky on St. John of Kronstadt
St. Alexander Hotovitzky was the rector of St. Nicholas Church (and then Cathedral) in New York City from his ordination in 1896 until his return to Russia in 1914. For almost all of…