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Early stages of the Bulgarian schism from Constantinople

Dec 7, 2012

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We just finished running a series of six articles on the 1872 Council of Constantinople, published contemporaneously in the Methodist Quarterly Review. The following article is from about a decade earlier, and describes the early stages of the Bulgarian split from the Patriarchate of Constantinople. This piece is from an American journal called The Independent,…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 6

Dec 6, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

This is the final Methodist Quarterly Review article dealing with the aftermath of the 1872 Council of Constantinople. From the Methodist Quarterly Review, April 1874. The Bulgarian Church question has, on the whole, attracted less attention during the year 1873 than in the previous years. The Bulgarians, undoubtedly, have the sympathy of the Slavic…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 5

Dec 5, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

This article is the fifth in a six-part series on the 1872 Council of Constantinople. In this installment, we learn about the aftermath of the Council. The one bishop who refused to sign the Council’s decree was the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and when he returned to Jerusalem, he was deposed by his Holy Synod. This…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 4

Dec 4, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

This article is the fourth in a six-part series on the 1872 Council of Constantinople, and this particular report covers the Council itself. It contains what is, to the best of my knowledge, the only complete English translation of the decree of the Council. From the Methodist Quarterly Review, January 1873. The rupture between…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 3

Dec 3, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

In case you haven’t been following along, this is Part 3 in a 6-part series of articles we began last week, covering the 1872 Council of Constantinople, which famously condemned “phyletism.” All of these articles were published in the Methodist Quarterly Review, within months of the events they discuss. This installment was published in the…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 2

Nov 30, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

Yesterday, I ran the first of six articles on the so-called “Bulgarian Question,” a controversy that rocked the Orthodox world in the early 1870s and ultimately led to the 1872 Council of Constantinople, which condemned the heresy of “phyletism.” Search the Internet — both Google and the various subscriber-only databases of academic journals — and…

The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 1

Nov 29, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Global Orthodoxy, Inter-Orthodox

Recently, I had occasion to research the 1872 Council of Constantinople, which somewhat famously condemned “ethno-phyletism.” The issue arose because, as I understand it, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church — which was under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate — declared itself autocephalous. Anyway, before I began this research, I could probably tell you three or…

Fr. Andreades’ 1867 New Orleans homily

Nov 28, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Firsts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Archimandrite Stephen Andreades was the first priest of Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in New Orleans. He arrived in late 1867, making him the very first resident Orthodox priest in the contiguous United States. Very little is known about Andreades, and most of what we know comes from a short homily he gave upon his arrival.…

Freemasonry in American Orthodox history

Nov 20, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Westernization

Once upon a time, it was the norm for American men to be members of fraternal organizations. These were especially attractive to new immigrants, who wanted to be integrated into American society and make progress in business. And in that earlier era, fraternal membership was the best and quickest way to achieve both goals. They joined the…

St Raphael Hawaweeny & Spanish language Orthodoxy in the Americas

Aug 30, 2012

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Nicholas Chapman

in Early Converts, Firsts, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

St Raphael Hawaweeny was a native of Lebanon, who in 1904 became the first Orthodox bishop ordained in the new world. As Bishop of Brooklyn he had oversight over the Syro-Lebanese communities that were beginning to appear in the Americas in the early twentieth century and he worked tirelessly for their growth and consolidation. It…

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