Comments on: Prayers for the President: an addendum http://orthodoxhistory.org/2010/08/02/prayers-for-the-president-an-addendum/ The Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Isa Almisry http://orthodoxhistory.org/2010/08/02/prayers-for-the-president-an-addendum/comment-page-1/#comment-1130 Isa Almisry Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:42:05 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=3022#comment-1130 there was a letter to the NY Times complaining on Dec. 30, 1907
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9802E5DD1539E733A25753C3A9649D946697D6CF
about the Russian Consul and Ambassador acting as incorporators of Churches in NY. Fr. Irving replied Dec. 31, 1907
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9900EEDD173EE233A25752C0A9679C946997D6CF
challenging the writer to come to the English services, and noting that the Cathedral prayed of the US President.

The rant of March 16, 1913 dimissed the Russian Archdiocese as “Russia’s conspiracy against Americanization.” If the Churches were commemorating the Czar, I doubt they would have missed the oportunity to point that out.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9801E4D81139E633A25755C1A9659C946296D6CF

]]> By: Isa Almisry http://orthodoxhistory.org/2010/08/02/prayers-for-the-president-an-addendum/comment-page-1/#comment-1129 Isa Almisry Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:53:12 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=3022#comment-1129 In the Hapgood of 1906, done for the Russian Archdiocese and under St. Tikhon (then Archbishop) and his predecessor Bishop Nicholas, words it “Here follow petitions for the Ruler of the Land and for all the Authorities (Emperor, or King, and Reigning House, or President, according to the elements and nationalities of which the Parish is constituted).”

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