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Irvine transferred to St. Raphael’s jurisdiction

Oct 28, 2010

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in Early Converts, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

The following letter was found in Ingram N.W. Irvine’s file in the OCA Archives in Syosset, New York. The letter is undated (the pre-printed date line “190_” does not have a specific year) and appears under the letterhead of the North American Ecclesiastical Consistory, 15 East 97th Street, New York, N.Y. It is handwritten and…

St. Alexander Hotovitzky on language in the Church

Oct 18, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints, Statistics, Westernization

On November 4, 1905, a religious and literary journal entitled The Friend published a letter by St. Alexander Hotovitzky, dean of St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York. Hotovitzky wrote in response to an article in The Friend which claimed, “In this Russian service, of course, no one understood what was said, not even the Russians…

Did St. Raphael try to shoot a police officer?

Oct 5, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

In my last article, I wrote about the “Battle of Pacific Street” — the gunfight between Syrian Orthodox and Maronites in Brooklyn on the night of September 18, 1905. As I said before, St. Raphael Hawaweeny fled the scene and was chased (and then arrested) by a policeman, Officer Mallon. According to Mallon, St. Raphael pulled…

An Antiochian wedding at the St. Louis World’s Fair

Sep 30, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

Editor’s note: 106 years ago tomorrow — and almost exactly one year before the Battle of Pacific Street — St. Raphael officiated at a wedding in St. Louis. The English bride and Arab groom had a rather romantic backstory, and the wedding took place at the imitation Holy Sepulchre in the “Jerusalem” exhibit at the St.…

St. Raphael and the Battle of Pacific Street

Sep 27, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

As we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks, in September 1905, New York’s Syrian community was on the brink of war. On one side were the Orthodox, who rallied around their bishop, St. Raphael Hawaweeny. The saint himself opposed violence — both violent acts and violent words — but his attempts to intervene only…

“New York’s 6,000 Syrians & Their Colony”

Sep 23, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

Editor’s note: The following article appeared in multiple newspapers (including the New York Sun and the Washington Post) on July 30, 1905 — just a couple of weeks before New York’s Syrian community became embroiled in a very public, very messy war between Orthodox and Maronites. In light of that controversy, this article’s statement, “They…

The Eve of the Battle of Pacific Street

Sep 20, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

Last week, we left the two New York Syrian camps — Orthodox and Maronite — on the brink of war. Each side’s partisan newspaper attacked the other, and the Maronites took particular aim at St. Raphael, the Orthodox bishop of Brooklyn, accusing him of all sorts of outlandish offenses. Various parties received anonymous threats, and…

Trouble in Syrian New York

Sep 13, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

Way back in January, I began what I intended to be a series on the 1905 arrest and trial of St. Raphael Hawaweeny. I wrote only one article on the subject, though, and even that article was more of a collection of quotations from contemporary newspapers than an actual piece of historical work. I confess…

NY Times: “When an Arab Enclave Thrived Downtown”

Aug 30, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Online Sources, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Last week, I was alerted to a recent article in the New York Times, on the subject of New York’s long-ago Syrian enclave. The colony, which was located in downtown Manhattan (not far from what became the World Trade Center site) was home to Orthodox Christians, as well as Maronites and Melkites. It was the…

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…

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