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Moscow v. the Metropolia, part 4: initial impressions

May 27, 2011

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in Orthodoxy & the US Courts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

To read my previous articles on the 1952 Supreme Court case Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral, click here. For the full text of the Supreme Court opinions, click here. In my last four articles, I summarized the majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions in Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral. Here, I will offer my initial impressions of…

Moscow v. the Metropolia in the Supreme Court, Part 3: Justice Jackson’s dissenting opinion

May 26, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy & the US Courts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Lately, I’ve been analyzing the Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral, a landmark 1952 Supreme Court case. For all the articles I’ve written on the case, click here. In this article, I am focusing on Justice Jackson’s dissenting opinion. (A brief note: in the past articles, I erroneously referred to Justice Jackson as Justice Black. I…

Moscow v. the Metropolia in the Supreme Court, Part 2: Justice Frankfurter’s concurring opinion

May 25, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy & the US Courts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

In my previous two articles (available here), I discussed the majority opinion in the 1952 Supreme Court case Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral. Today, I’ll discuss the concurring opinion of Justice Frankfurter. And just to be clear — “concurring opinion” means that Justice Frankfurter agreed with the ultimate outcome of the case (a victory for the Moscow Patriarchal jurisdiction), but differed to…

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

May 25, 2011

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Matthew Namee

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…

Bishop Nestor appeals to President Hayes, 1880

Mar 14, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas

The following article appeared in the New York Times on March 23, 1880, detailing an early communication between Nestor Zass, the Russian Bishop of Alaska and the Rutherford B. Hayes, the President of the United States. WASHINGTON, March 22. — On Saturday last the President received a letter from Bishop Nestor, of the Greek Church,…

The Kodiak Bell in the LA Times, 1923

Feb 28, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Firsts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Editor’s note: The following article appeared in the Los Angeles Times on May 13, 1923, and was entitled, “Tolls Story of Old California.” An old and battered bell, hanging in an orange grove where Ramona played in the days of her childhood, rang a new note in the song of California’s mission history yesterday. After…

Photos of the oldest Orthodox church in Texas

Feb 16, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Firsts, Inter-Orthodox, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Way back in the summer of 2009, we went down to Houston to visit family, and while there, we made a special trip to the nearby city of Galveston. Really, my family was indulging me — I wanted to visit Saints Constantine and Helen Serbian Orthodox Church, the first Orthodox parish in Texas and one…

Iakov Babin & the Il’mena Island Massacre of 1815

Feb 11, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas

Yesterday, we posted the St. Peter the Aleut entry from Richard A. Pierce’s Russian America: A Biographical Dictionary. In that excerpt, Pierce offered this theory: “Since the extermination of Indians on ‘Il’mena Island’ by Aleut hunters led by the Russian Iakov Babin, there with the RAC brig Il’mena, occurred at about the same time as…

Excerpt: Richard Pierce on St. Peter the Aleut

Feb 10, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

Editor’s note: The late Dr. Richard A. Pierce was among the foremost historians on Russian Alaska, and his many books remain standards in the field. In 1990, he published Russian America: A Biographical Dictionary (Kingston, Ont., Canada: Limestone Press). Among the many entries in the book is one on St. Peter the Aleut (pages 397-398).…

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