Tag: Nicholas Ziorov

Valerian Gribayedoff, the pioneer of pictorial journalism

June 14, 2010

As his name suggests, Valerian Gribayedoff was from Russia. He was born in Kronstadt in 1858, the son of a colonel in the Tsarist army. He studied in St. Petersburg and then went to…
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The World’s Parliament of Religions, 1893

May 11, 2010

Not long ago, I wrote a pair of articles on the visit of the Greek archbishop Dionysius Latas to the United States. The archbishop came to America in 1893 to attend the “World’s Parliament of Religions,”…
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Orthodoxy in Alaska after 1885 and Protestant Missionaries

April 21, 2010

The Russian Orthodoxy course I am teaching at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, is drawing to a close. Since I am the instructor, we devoted part of that course to an introduction to the…
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Fr. Kallinikos Kanellas: filling in the gaps

December 15, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, I introduced Fr. Kallinikos Kanellas, one of the first ethnic Greek priests to serve in America. At the time, I mentioned that Paul Manolis had published a letter —…
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Fr. Kallinikos Kanellas: the first Greek priest in America?

December 1, 2009

According to some sources, Archimandrite Kallinikos Kanellas was the first ethnic Greek priest to serve in America. And those sources may be right, depending on your definition of “Greek.” The only other candidates would…
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Early Orthodoxy in Portland, Oregon

November 18, 2009

Orthodoxy has been in Portland, Oregon for well over a century, and its history is of particular interest to me, as my in-laws live in the city, and I have visited there many times. Today,…
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The extent of the Russian diocese in the 19th century

November 16, 2009

Recently, there has been an interesting and lengthy discussion in the comments section on our website, regarding the extent of the territory of the Russian Diocese of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska in the…
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The controversial Fr. Basil Bouroff

November 3, 2009

Yesterday, I wrote about St. John Kochurov’s arrival in Chicago, which followed on the heels of Fr. B.A. Bouroff’s expulsion by Bishop Nicholas, on the grounds that Bouroff had taken classes at the University…
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St. John comes to Chicago, 1895

November 2, 2009

This past weekend, those of us on the New Calendar celebrated the feast day of St. John Kochurov, the Russian New Martyr and former priest of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Chicago. With that in…
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Orthodoxy in Chicago, 1888-1892

October 23, 2009

Back in June, I did one of my first podcasts on an attempt, in 1888, to form a multiethnic parish in Chicago. Here are the basics: By 1888, there were about a thousand Orthodox Christians living…
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