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The Myth of Unity

Jan 29, 2018

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in Inter-Orthodox, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Pre-1921 Unity

Nine years ago, at a conference at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, I presented a paper called, “The Myth of Unity and the Origins of Jurisdictional Pluralism in American Orthodoxy.” My thesis, basically, was that, contrary to the prevailing narrative at the time, Orthodoxy in America was not administratively united prior to the Bolshevik Revolution and the…

Fr Matthew Baker: Florovsky Visits America

Mar 2, 2015

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Matthew J. Baker

in Firsts, Inter-Orthodox, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Last night, March 1, 2015, the brilliant Orthodox scholar (and priest, husband, and father of six), Fr Matthew Baker, died in a car accident. In remembrance of him, we are republishing a really outstanding article that he wrote for this site in 2012. You can read more about Fr Matthew in this post by his friend, Fr Andrew Damick. If you are able, please consider…

Who was St. Raphael under — Antioch or Russia?

Oct 8, 2014

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Matthew Namee

in Inter-Orthodox, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Pre-1921 Unity, Saints

Who was St. Raphael under? It depends partly on whom you ask, and it also depends on when you ask. In 1895, when Archimandrite Raphael Hawaweeny came to America to oversee the Syro-Arabs, he was most definitely under the Russian Church. In fact, at the time, he was on the outs with Antioch, which was…

Early stages of the Bulgarian schism from Constantinople

Dec 7, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

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 early stages of the Bulgarian split from the Patriarchate of Constantinople. This piece is from an American journal called The Independent,…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 6

Dec 6, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

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, attracted less attention during the year 1873 than in the previous years. The Bulgarians, undoubtedly, have the sympathy of the Slavic…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 5

Dec 5, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

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 Council’s decree was the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and when he returned to Jerusalem, he was deposed by his Holy Synod. This…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 4

Dec 4, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

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 only complete English translation of the decree of the Council. From the Methodist Quarterly Review, January 1873. The rupture between…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 3

Dec 3, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

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 articles were published in the Methodist Quarterly Review, within months of the events they discuss. This installment was published in the…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 2

Nov 30, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

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 condemned the heresy of “phyletism.” Search the Internet — both Google and the various subscriber-only databases of academic journals — and…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 1

Nov 29, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

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 of the Ecumenical Patriarchate — declared itself autocephalous. Anyway, before I began this research, I could probably tell you three or…

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