Tag: Herman Swaiko

Orthodoxy & the Courts: ecclesiastical questions are unavoidable

Jun 13, 2011

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by

Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy & the US Courts, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Westernization

Until the early 1980s, some OCA parishes in the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania used the Old Calendar. In 1982, then-Bishop Herman Swaiko of Philadelphia ordered all of his parishes to switch to the New Calendar. Predictably, this wasn’t universally well-received. The majority of St. Basil Orthodox Church in Simpson, PA jumped to ROCOR, and this…