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Moscow v. the Metropolia in the Supreme Court, Part 1(a): Justice Reed’s majority opinion revisited

May 25, 2011

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in Orthodoxy & the US Courts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Yesterday, I discussed Justice Reed’s majority opinion in Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral, a landmark 1952 Supreme Court case pitting the Moscow Patriarchate’s North American jurisdiction against the Metropolia (today’s OCA). The dispute was about which group — Moscow or the Metropolia — was the rightful owner of St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York. The…

Moscow v. the Metropolia in the Supreme Court, Part 1: Justice Reed’s majority opinion

May 24, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy & the US Courts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

It’s been forever since I wrote an article here at OH.org. I’ve been incredibly busy, with my family, my local parish, and law school classes taking up all of my time. I’m in summer classes, as well, so there won’t be much reprieve over the next couple of months. Fortunately, I’ve found a way to…

Our Best Chance Yet: an historical reflection on administrative unity

May 18, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Inter-Orthodox, Orthodoxy in the Americas

We’ve tried this before. Over the past century or so, there have been no fewer than five attempts to bring the various ethnic Orthodox jurisdictions in America into some measure of administrative unity. Next week, from May 26-28, we embark upon a sixth effort — an effort which, compared to its predecessors, seems remarkably promising. First, of…

Source of the week: Schmemann on Vatican II

Mar 8, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas

Fr. Alexander Schmemann was one of the observers at Vatican II, the landmark 1960s council of the Roman Catholic Church. His reaction to the event is priceless — Schmemann took the “opportunity to thank God” that he was Orthodox. Here’s the story, from the New York Times (11/16/1963): A Russian Orthodox theologian-observer at the second session…

Solving the mystery: the 1921 pan-Orthodox gathering of bishops

Jan 28, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Inter-Orthodox, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Back in July, Fr. Andrew wrote about the above photo, which depicts a gathering of American Orthodox bishops in the early 1920s: Greeks Meletios and Alexander, Russians Platon and Alexander, and Syrian Aftimios. At the time of Fr. Andrew’s original post, no one knew exactly when this photo was taken, or what occasion brought all…

The Forgotten Saint of the Forgotten Church on the Forgotten Island

Jan 20, 2010

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in Inter-Orthodox, Online Sources, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Pre-1921 Unity, Saints

Archimandrite Theoclitos Triantafilides is one of the most remarkable figures in American Orthodox history. An ethnic Greek, he served as tutor to the future Tsar Nicholas II and went on to establish the multiethnic parish of Ss. Constantine and Helen in Galveston, Texas, under the Russian Mission. His story has been mostly untold, until now. The following article,…

American Orthodox demographics, 1906-1936

Jan 11, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Statistics

Every ten years, from 1906 to 1936, the US Census Bureau compiled a Census of Religious Bodies. These censuses are gold mines of information on early American Orthodoxy. Also, unlike so many of the inflated numbers that you’re likely to see floating around, the census data is reliable. With its considerable resources, the Census Bureau…

Language in American Orthodoxy, 1916 (reposted from 8/21/09)

Dec 25, 2009

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints, Statistics, Westernization

To our New Calendar readers: Christ is born! The following article was originally published on August 21, 2009. If you’re interested, you might check out the comments to that original posting. We’ll be back with brand-new material on Monday, December 28. As you might expect, most American Orthodox parishes in 1916 used foreign languages. From…

The Reversal of Platon Rozhdestvensky

Nov 4, 2009

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Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Pre-1921 Unity

On today’s podcast on AFR, we discuss the American Orthodox Catholic Church, an early attempt at multi-ethnic jurisdictional unity in the United States. One of the issues brought up was that, within about a year after the creation of the AOCC by Russian Metropolia authorities in February of 1927, the Metropolia’s head, Metr. Platon Rozhdestvensky,…

The Bulgarian Diocese in Exile

Oct 14, 2009

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Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

in Orthodoxy in the Americas

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 Archdiocese. Kyrill was well-known and well-loved as the OCA’s diocesan bishop for Western Pennsylvania as well as its Bulgarian diocese. What…

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