Tag: St Tikhon’s Monastery

This week in American Orthodox history (March 5-11)

Mar 5, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Firsts, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

March 10, 1866: The future Archbishop Arseny Chagovtsov was born in Kharkov, in what was then the Russian Empire and what is today Ukraine. A widowed priest, he became a monk and came to America in 1903 to serve in the Russian North American Mission. He was instrumental in the establishment of St. Tikhon’s Monastery…
Archbishop Arseny: The Context for Canonization — Part One

May 4, 2010

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Fr. Matthew Francis

in Orthodoxy in the Americas

(Editor’s note: Today, we are very pleased to introduce a new author here at OrthodoxHistory.org. Deacon Matthew Francis lives in Edmonton, Alberta, and is one of the leading historians of Orthodoxy in Canada. For some time now, he has been conducting independent research into the life of Archbishop Arseny Chagovtsov, among many other aspects of…