Tag: Bohdan Spylka

This week in American Orthodox history (February 27-March 4)

Feb 28, 2012

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by

Matthew Namee

in Firsts, Inter-Orthodox, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

March 2, 1865: Fr. Agapius Honcharenko served the first public Orthodox Divine Liturgy in New York. Way back in 2009, I wrote a pair of articles about that liturgy; click here and here to read them. What I wasn’t aware of at the time was that Honcharenko had celebrated the Divine Liturgy at least once…