Comments on: The Mysterious Roots of Orthodoxy in Canada http://orthodoxhistory.org/2010/06/03/the-mysterious-roots-of-orthodoxy-in-canada/ The Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas Wed, 08 May 2013 13:30:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jake http://orthodoxhistory.org/2010/06/03/the-mysterious-roots-of-orthodoxy-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-951 Jake Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:28:09 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=2652#comment-951 The first person in Canada to research the history of Orthodoxy in Canada was the late Senator Paul Yuzik of Saskatchewan. Before he was appointed to the canadian senate he was a professor at the University of Ottawa. His doctorate was in history.
Currently the expert is Professor Daniel H. Sahas, University of Waterloo. Professor Sahas is a member of the Greek Orthodox Church of Canada, the largest jurisdiction in Canada.

]]> By: Isa Almisry http://orthodoxhistory.org/2010/06/03/the-mysterious-roots-of-orthodoxy-in-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-944 Isa Almisry Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:31:17 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=2652#comment-944 Just would like to like to the fascinating “Roots of Community 1896-1937: Archdiocese of Canada, Orthodox Church in America”
http://www.archdiocese.ca/exhibit/landandpeople.html
which has quite an array of things displayed with some historical narrative for those who would like to get an idea of Canadian Orthodox History.

At a earlier article, I posted some rudiments of the first Church/jurisdiction in the Canadian provinces (present day).
http://orthodoxhistory.org/2009/08/the-first-churches-state-by-state/#comments

As to conjecture on the connections of Bjerring, St. Petersburg and Syria:”The Churchman,” v. 36 (Dec. 29, 1877)
“The Syrian Christians.—From the Moscow Diocesan Gazette we learn that in Syria, though peace exists, the Christian population is filled with alarm. The Druzes, in the absence of the greater part of the army, threaten to massacre the Christians. The Patriach of Antiocb, Hierotheus, has for some months past lived at Beyrout, fearing, in view of the threatening state of affairs, to return to Damascus. The duties connected with the Patriarchate at Damascus are attended to by Cyril, Metropolitan of Palmyra. The Gazette mentions, as a fact interesting to its readers, that not only were the Patriarch Hierotheus, and the Metropolitan Cyril personally known in Russia, the former having visited there when Archbishop of Mount Tabor, many years since, but that two other prelates in the patriarchate, Gabriel, Archbishop of Beyrout, and Agassius of Epiphania, had spent some time in Moscow. Gabriel had been archimandrite of the Antioch convent in that city, and Agassius, after being connected in a subordinate capacity with that convent, had taught for a time in the Spiritual academy at St. Petersburg.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=fCDnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA745&dq=churchman+Syrians+Hierotheus+Damascus&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

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