Comments on: Historical Census Data for Orthodoxy in America http://orthodoxhistory.org/2010/10/11/historical-census-data-for-orthodoxy-in-america/ 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: mandrec http://orthodoxhistory.org/2010/10/11/historical-census-data-for-orthodoxy-in-america/comment-page-1/#comment-1235 mandrec Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:07:18 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=3304#comment-1235 Very interesting analysis. I agree with the idea that significant numbers may have fallen through the cracks of the census methodology. This would explain the oddity that if one takes these numbers literally, then Ukrainians are non-existent until more than 10,000 of them suddenly materialize in the decade between 1926 and 1936. I wonder if the census entirely missed the Ukrainian Orthodox eparchy headed by Archbishop Ioann (Teodorovych), and before that, under the spiritual leadership of Metropolitan Germanos.

There were certainly individuals in the US who self-identified as both Ukrainian and Orthodox going back to the 1910s. There were enough of them to bring Archbishop Ioann from Ukraine to the US in 1924 and to have dozens of parishes (if memory serves me) by the early 1930s.

Michael Andrec
Archivist, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA

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