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ROCOR to offer an annual memorial service for Philip Ludwell III

February 27, 2012

Today being a Monday, I normally would publish the next edition of my “This week in American Orthodox history” series (in which I would say, among other things, that today marks the 97th anniversary…
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Hierarchical, Congregational, and the problems of the “parish”

June 17, 2011

In 1993, the Appeals Court of Massachusetts rendered its decision in (brace yourself) Primate and Bishops’ Synod of Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia v. Russian Orthodox Church of Holy Resurrection, Inc. We’ll just call…
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ROCOR/OCA Episcopal Concelebration

June 15, 2011

Editor’s note: The following article was written by Christopher Orr. Update (6/18/11): What follows is an updated version of the original article. On May 24, 2011 – the feast of the holy Equals-of-the-Apostles, Sts.…
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Orthodoxy & the Courts: ecclesiastical questions are unavoidable

June 13, 2011

Until the early 1980s, some OCA parishes in the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania used the Old Calendar. In 1982, then-Bishop Herman Swaiko of Philadelphia ordered all of his parishes to switch to the New…
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More eyewitness accounts from the Episcopal Assembly

June 1, 2010

The reader may be interested to take a look at some eyewitness accounts of the recent Episcopal Assembly published by the ROCOR from three of the Russian bishops serving in North America, Abp. Justinian…
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The Bulgarian Diocese in Exile

October 14, 2009

The longest-serving hierarch in American Orthodox history was Abp. Kyrill Yonchev (1964-2007), until late this past June, when his record tenure of nearly 43 years was exceeded by Metr. Philip Saliba of the Antiochian…
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