Comments on: In Search Of… Fr. Jacob Korchinsky, Missionary and Martyr http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/11/01/in-search-of-fr-jacob-korchinsky-missionary-and-martyr/ 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: Matthew Namee http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/11/01/in-search-of-fr-jacob-korchinsky-missionary-and-martyr/comment-page-1/#comment-1629 Matthew Namee Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:20:55 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=4864#comment-1629 Good question. I’ve been collecting data on historical clergy assignments, and I haven’t seen any other references to an early Russian parish in Erie (aside from Protopopov’s mention above). I can put Korchinsky in Carnegie PA (basically Pittsburgh, ~130 mi. from Erie) in 1911, and in Youngstown OH (~100 mi. from Erie) in 1915. So he was definitely in that part of the country, but I don’t know anything specific about an Erie parish. It’s possible that he visited Erie, but that the town didn’t have a Russian parish. I’ll see if I can find anything else.

]]> By: Rich Custer http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/11/01/in-search-of-fr-jacob-korchinsky-missionary-and-martyr/comment-page-1/#comment-1628 Rich Custer Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:55:09 +0000 http://orthodoxhistory.org/?p=4864#comment-1628 >was appointed rector of the St Michael church and visiting priest to parishes in Erie, Carnegie and Youngstown

Anyone have more information on said parish in Erie? There’s ROCOR/Old Rite parish(es), of course, and there was an OCA parish in the 1980s/90s that was closed, but the OCA parish doesn’t seem to have had any connection to an early Metropolia parish.

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