Comments on: Federated Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary Jurisdictions in America

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Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:02:58 +0000

[...] Greek Catholic Primary Jurisdictions in America (or, more palatably, “the Federation). As we’ve discussed here already, the Federation was essentially a proto-SCOBA body. When it collapsed in 1944, Bashir kept it alive [...]

By: Isa Almisry

Isa Almisry — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:46:15 +0000

“Charles J. Tobin, secretary of the New York State Catholic Welfare Committee, wrote to State Senator Charles Burney, objecting to the proposed legislation, claiming that only Rome could use the terms Catholic or Greek Catholic….Rev. Philemon Tarnavsky (chancellor of the diocese of Philadelphia) also wrote to Gov. Dewey and agreed with Tobin. He objected to the use of the word Catholic, which he said was linked to the Holy See in Rome. He even noted that the word Orthodox is also used by Greek Catholics, questioning whether Orthodox should use it as a self designation. Rev. Turnavsky was a Greek Catholic himself”

Legal tricks: the use of “Greek” “Orthodox” and “Catholic” by the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Orthodox Church was of long standing in NY law, ever since the 1871 incorporation law for “Greek Churches of the Christian Orthodox Catholic Church of the Eastern Confession”
http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=1240#comments

Of course, the incorporation of Greek Holy Trinity, in opposition to St. Tikhon, and the subsequent incorporation of the Greek Archdiocese of North and South America outside the Orthodox incorporation law may have muddled things.