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St. Philaret of Moscow on Orthodoxy in America in 1865

Aug 31, 2010

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in Firsts, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

Editor’s note: Last week, Nicholas Chapman introduced three documents he found in the National Archives in London, under the heading “The Russian Orthodox Church in America and Its Clergy in 1865.” Today, we present the first of these documents — a letter from His Holiness Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, to the Ober-Procurator of the Holy…

Fr. Kyrill Johnson: The Prestige of the Oecumenical Patriarchate

Aug 19, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Early Converts, Inter-Orthodox, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Editor’s note: On Monday, we introduced Fr. Kyrill Johnson, who converted to Orthodoxy in the 1920s and spent most of his career in the Antiochian Archdiocese. Then, on Tuesday, we presented an article by Johnson reviewing a Protestant translation of the Divine Liturgy. Below, we’ve published another article by Johnson, on “The Prestige of the…

The Sorcerer on the Golden Horn

Dec 15, 2009

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Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

in Early Converts, Firsts, Online Sources, Orthodoxy in the Americas

The following is a translation from the French of the article “Un Conquete du Patriarcat Oecumenique,” from Échos d’Orient, Volume 11, 1908, concerning Fr. Raphael (Robert Josias) Morgan, the first black Orthodox priest in America. The article uses his middle name “Josias.” The translation was done using Google Translate with a little cleaning afterward. A…

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St. Philaret of Moscow on Orthodoxy in America in 1865

Fr. Kyrill Johnson: The Prestige of the Oecumenical Patriarchate

The Sorcerer on the Golden Horn