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This week in American Orthodox history (March 5-11)

Mar 5, 2012

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by

Matthew Namee

in Firsts, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

March 10, 1866: The future Archbishop Arseny Chagovtsov was born in Kharkov, in what was then the Russian Empire and what is today Ukraine. A widowed priest, he became a monk and came to America in 1903 to serve in the Russian North American Mission. He was instrumental in the establishment of St. Tikhon’s Monastery…