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Independence Day in Chicago, 1892

Jul 4, 2011

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in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Westernization

Back in 2009, I wrote an article about a unique Independence Day church service held in Chicago by Fr. Firmilian Drazich of Serbia. I thought it’d be appropriate to link to it today. If anyone out there has more information about this fascinating event, please email me at mfnamee [at] gmail [dot] com. Matthew Namee

The Dionisije Conundrum and why deference doesn’t work

Jun 14, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy & the US Courts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

I’m assuming, in this short article, that you’ve read about Serbian Diocese v. Milivojevich. But for those who haven’t: the Serbian Holy Assembly deposed Bishop Dionisije Milivojevich, and Illinois courts basically overruled the deposition on the grounds that the Holy Assembly hadn’t followed its own rules. The US Supreme Court reversed the judgment, holding that…

Ecumenical Patriarch denied appeal of Bishop Dionisije

Jun 8, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy & the US Courts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Well, this is interesting. Lately, I’ve been looking at the Supreme Court case Serbian Diocese v. Milivojevich, which pitted the representatives of the Serbian Church against the incumbent American bishop, Dionisije, who had been defrocked by the Serbian Holy Assembly. The big question, which the Court answered in the negative, was whether civil courts in…

Serbian Diocese v. Milivojevich, Part 2: Justice Rehnquist’s Dissenting Opinion

Jun 6, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy & the US Courts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

In my last article, I wrote about Justice Brennan’s majority opinion in Serbian Diocese v. Milivojevich, the 1976 Supreme Court case that deferred to the Holy Assembly of the Serbian Church in its defrocking of former US Bishop Dionisije and its reorganization of the American-Canadian Diocese. Click here for the opinions, and here for audio…

Serbian Diocese v. Milivojevich, Part 1: Justice Brennan’s majority opinion

Jun 3, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy & the US Courts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

We’ve introduced the first major Supreme Court case dealing with Orthodoxy, Kedroff v. St. Nicholas Cathedral (1952). Today, we’ll begin an analysis of the other landmark case, Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich (1976). Justice Brennan’s majority opinion includes a lengthy historical background on the case, and I won’t go into all the details here;…

Fr. Sava Matanovich: the first Serbian Orthodox priest in America

Apr 6, 2011

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Matthew Namee

in Firsts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Just a brief note today: I had always assumed that Fr. Sebastian Dabovich was the first Serbian Orthodox priest in America, but apparently he wasn’t. The first Serbian priest in America — and probably the first Serbian priest the California-born Dabovich had ever seen — was Fr. Sava Matanovich. From the 1985 book Sacred Places of…

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…

1905 photos from Holy Trinity Cathedral in Chicago

Dec 27, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

The Library of Congress website has all sorts of great resources, including a collection of old photos from the Chicago Daily News. The following five photos are of the newly-built Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago. — Matthew Namee

An Orthodox saint from Gary, Indiana

Nov 12, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

The Northwest Indiana Times recently published an article on St. Varnava Nastic, who was born in Gary, Indiana in 1914. St. Varnava was the first person baptized in St. Sava Orthodox Church, which was originally in Gary and is now located in Merrillville. The Nastic family returned to Yugoslavia when St. Varnava was nine years…

Fr. Sebastian Dabovich on St. Innocent of Alaska

Nov 1, 2010

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

Editor’s note: The following lecture was given by Fr. Sebastian Dabovich on August 15, 1897 to the parish school St. Sergius in San Francisco, in the presence of Bishop Nicholas Ziorov. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the birth of St. Innocent Veniaminov, the great Alaskan missionary and later Metropolitan of Moscow. The text was originally…

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