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Today in American Orthodox History: May 13

May 13, 2014

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas

On May 13, 1888, a diverse group of Orthodox men, mostly from Greece and the Balkans, met in Chicago to discuss the formation of a multiethnic Orthodox parish. That meeting was the topic of one of the very first posts on this blog, back in 2009. And also one of my first podcasts on AFR,…
This week in American Orthodox history (March 19-25)

Mar 19, 2012

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by

Matthew Namee

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

March 25, 1886: The future Greek Archbishop and later Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras Spyrou was born. Athenagoras led the Greek Archdiocese from 1930 to 1948, when he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople. He served in that position for nearly a quarter-century, until his death in 1972. March 25, 1891: St. Alexis Toth and his Greek Catholic…