Tag: Russian

Moscow v. the Metropolia, part 4: initial impressions

May 27, 2011

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

May 26, 2011

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

May 25, 2011

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

May 25, 2011

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

May 24, 2011

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…
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Bishop Nestor appeals to President Hayes, 1880

March 14, 2011

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…
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The Kodiak Bell in the LA Times, 1923

February 28, 2011

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…
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Photos of the oldest Orthodox church in Texas

February 16, 2011

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…
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Iakov Babin & the Il’mena Island Massacre of 1815

February 11, 2011

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…
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Excerpt: Richard Pierce on St. Peter the Aleut

February 10, 2011

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…
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