Comments on: The Case Against Agapius Honcharenko

By: Matthew Namee

Matthew Namee — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:22:43 +0000

Well, I have no horse in this race, but I’ve done a fair amount of research on Honcharenko. Honestly, it is very difficult to distinguish between truth and fiction when dealing with him. He made many claims which are either grossly exaggerated or entirely untrue. At the same time, some of the “Moscow slander” (as you call it) has not yet been corroborated. However, I don’t think anyone can dispute the fact that Honcharenko, an ordained clergyman, married after his ordination in violation of the canons and ancient practice of the Church. He did this in a non-Orthodox ceremony, and married a non-Orthodox woman. When he moved to California, he attempted to set up his own Protestant church. None of these facts come from “Moscow” (or Russian sources in general), but rather from secular sources or from Honcharenko himself. Whatever his virtues, by the late 1860s Honcharenko had strayed considerably from Orthodoxy.

By: anastunya

anastunya — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 03:18:06 +0000

After the initial nausea experienced after reading Mr. Chapman’s reprinting of the vicious Moscow slander against the Ukrainian American patriot, Fr. Agapius Honcharenko, I realized that here was one of the earliest examples of Moscow’s dezinformatsia leveled against a defender of freedom. Insulted also was Mrs. Honcharenko, the sister of an Italian freedom fighter. I thank the Lord I was initially crismated into the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, where there is no conflict between American patriotism and Orthodoxy (and no illusions about the Muscovites.)

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Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:04:06 +0000

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