Comments on: Archbishop Arseny: The Context for Canonization — Part One

By: Reg

Reg — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:54:06 +0000

Soething as a serious as a attempted murder, I think would have been reported to the police. What about checkign for a police record? Good suggestion about checking the local newspapers too. Would have been big news at the time.

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:12:49 +0000

It was Senetor Paul Yuzyk in his doctoral thesis who first claimed that Metropolilitan G. Hackman, who was Ukrainian, of Bukovyna failed to respond to letters. Other scholars repeated this without any proof. Now that communism has fallen, it would be easy to check the records of the Metropolitan of Chernivsti & Bukovyna. In the days of the Austrian Empire, the poisition of metropolitan was rotated between Romanians and Ukrainians.
Parish anniversary books have been cited to show that monks (usually a hieromonk and a deacon) did come from Bukovyna to the Canadian prairies during Great Lent and travelled from parish to parish among bothe the Ukrainiians and Romanians from Bukovyna in southern Manitoba and East central Alberta visiting the areas of settlement from Bukovyna.

By: Helen

Helen — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:06:13 +0000

Have you checked the archives of the local newspaper in Canora, Saskatchewan for documented evidence of the shooting in 1935? Because of the strict gun laws in Canada, such an incident would have been reported to the police. Also have the RCMP records been verified?
Canora, SK is the site of a killing of another clergyman earlier in the century.

By: Uniate

Uniate — Thu, 06 May 2010 03:02:23 +0000

In re of the primate of Bukovina and sending priests to Canada, historically there were at least two Bukovinian Orthodox Churches that I am aware of – one in Ottawa, which I believe now is under Carpatho-Russian jurisdiction, and one in Oshawa, which merged with the Ukrainian Orthodox parish down the street and whose church building is now used by Greeks. Fr. Pantaleimon Bozhyk, who served in Canada in the early 1900′s and who wrote a history of the Ukrainian Churches in Canada from 1890 to 1927, was originally Bukovinian Orthodox before joining the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Exarchate of Winnipeg.

By: Matthew Namee

Matthew Namee — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:22:51 +0000

In his essay on the history of the Romanian Episcopate in America, in the book Orthodox America 1794-1976 (page 305), Fr. Vasile Hategan writes, “Prior to World War I, most of the Romanian parishes in the United States were affiliated with the Metropolitan of Transylvania and those of Canada with the Metropolitan of Moldova.”

Similiarly, in his recent paper on Romanian Orthodoxy in America, Fr. Gabriel-Viorel Gardan writes, “The parishes from Canada were not included in this deanery [in the US, under the Metropolitan of Sibiu, founded in 1912]. Because the majority of immigrants from Canada were natives of Bucovina, they asked the Metropolitan Church of Moldavia, which they recognized as their spiritual protector, to send them priests.” A copy of this essay can be found at:

http://biserica.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1849

By: Isa Almisry

Isa Almisry — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:03:07 +0000

Christ is risen!

I have seen it claimed, but yet to see it fully established, that the Primate of Bukowina refused to send priests etc. to Canada out of deference to the Russians. Any contemporary evidence, yeah or neah?

By: Dn. Matthew Francis

Dn. Matthew Francis — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:00:59 +0000

As an addendum, there is a helpful article introducing the history of Orthodox mission in Canada, written by OCA Archivist Alexis Liberovsky, in the Summer 2007 edition of “The Orthodox Church” magazine, pp. 11 & 20.

http://www.oca.org/PDF/DOC-PUB/TOC/2007/toc-summer.pdf