Tag: Antony Hill

Fr. Antony Hill: the second black Orthodox priest in America

Apr 20, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Early Converts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

After a week’s worth of articles on the Archbishop Arseny criminal libel case, I thought I’d break things up a bit by looking at something completely different — the story of Fr. Antony Hill, the second black Orthodox priest in America. By now, a lot of people know that Fr. Raphael Morgan was the first…
The First English-Speaking Parish

Jan 26, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Early Converts, Firsts, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Westernization

For a while now, I have been meaning to write about the first all-English Orthodox parish in America, founded in New York City in 1920. Today, I’m going to give a brief introduction to that parish, and the main characters involved. This is hardly the whole story; it really is just an introduction. To start…