Tag: Constantine Tsapralis

The Third Greek Church of San Francisco

Mar 2, 2012

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Guest Author

in Orthodoxy in the Americas

Jim Lucas is the president of the Greek Historical Society of the San Francisco Bay Area, a non-profit corporation based at Annunciation Cathedral in San Francisco. The organization is dedicated to the preservation of Greek history and culture in the San Francisco area. Jim has been actively researching the history of the Greek community for…
A Greek church in San Francisco, 1903

Feb 25, 2010

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Matthew Namee

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

From its founding in 1868, the Russian cathedral in San Francisco was a multiethnic community. In particular, Greeks and Serbs were an integral part of the church, and, at various times, there was an ethnic Greek (Fr. Kallinikos Kanellas) and an ethnic Serb priest (Fr. Sebastian Dabovich) serving the parish. By 1903, however, the…