Tag: Global Orthodox Crisis
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The Nine Years that Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church
Back in March, I published a 9-part series on the global Orthodox crisis of 1917-1925. I’ve made a few revisions to that account and added an Epilogue and a partial bibliography. Today, I’m publishing…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1925
Here are links to the previous articles in this series on the global Orthodox crisis of 1917-25: 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 By 1925, following his near-assassination, Patriarch Tikhon’s health was…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1924
Here are links to the previous articles in this series on the global Orthodox crisis of 1917-25: 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 In Poland, between 1918 and 1924, some 400 Orthodox churches…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1923
Here are links to the previous articles in this series on the global Orthodox crisis of 1917-25: 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 As we begin 1923, just by way of reminder: Patriarch Tikhon…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1922
Here are links to the previous five articles in this series on the global Orthodox crisis of 1917-25: 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 As 1921 turned to 1922, the Church of Greece rejected…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1921
Here are links to the previous four articles in this series on the global Orthodox crisis of 1917-25: 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 In February 1921, the Red Army invaded Georgia, capturing Tbilisi and…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1920
Here are links to the previous three articles in this series on the global Orthodox crisis of 1917-25: 1917 1918 1919 1920 In January 1920, the Ecumenical Patriarchate issued an encyclical “Unto the Churches…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1919
This article is the third in a series on the crisis that engulfed Orthodoxy in the period from 1917 to 1925. Previously, I covered the years 1917 and 1918. Today, we’re moving on to…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1918
In my previous article, I began a series on the the chaotic nine-year stretch from 1917 to 1925 — an era that nearly destroyed the Orthodox Church, and produced the global Orthodox context in…
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The Nine Years That Almost Destroyed the Orthodox Church: 1917
Orthodoxy is currently facing a global crisis of unity. While we might be tempted to despair of the well-being of the Church, it is helpful to remember that, not so long ago, Orthodoxy faced…