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This week in American Orthodox history (February 20-26)

Feb 20, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas

February 20, 1874: The future hieromartyr Vasily Martysz was born in Poland. He served in America — first in Alaska, and then in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, and Canada — from 1901 to 1912. He died in 1945 and was canonized by the the Orthodox Church of Poland in 2003. To read a biography of…
Fr. Ingram Nathaniel Irvine on ecumenism in 1907

Jun 21, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Early Converts, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Westernization

Recently, I happened to revisit an essay by Fr. Ingram Nathaniel Irvine, published in St. Raphael’s Al Kalimat (The Word) magazine. I don’t have the precise date, but I think it was written in 1907. The whole article is on the subject of “Church Unity” — what, today, we would call “ecumenism.” Irvine’s ecclesiology is interesting. Focusing…