Comments on: In Search Of… Fr. Stephen Andreades, the first Greek priest in America

By: OrthodoxHistory.org » Early Orthodoxy in Galveston & New Orleans

OrthodoxHistory.org » Early Orthodoxy in Galveston & New Orleans — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:05:23 +0000

[...] an article about Fr. Stephen Andreades, the first resident priest in New Orleans, I quoted from Understanding the Greek Orthodox Church, [...]

By: Matthew Namee

Matthew Namee — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:11:54 +0000

Thanks very much! Kind of strange to see Washington and Newark classified as a “smaller cities” along with Ipswich!

Okay, I had to look this up… According to the 1890 Census, Washington was the 14th largest city in the US. Newark was 17th. Of the “large cities” listed by Constantelos, San Francisco was the smallest at 298,997 people (ranked 8th). Which isn’t THAT much bigger than “small city” Washington (230,392).

I got the population data here: http://tiny.cc/auvli

By: pxs155

pxs155 — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:48:56 +0000

The rest of that “snippet” is here, conjured from Google Books, but there’s not much to it:

…and Slavonic; and a cemetery. The number of churches in the second half of the nineteenth century corresponded to the number of Greek Orthodox communities, which were concentrated in cities. Up to 1891 there were approximately twenty-five hundred Greek Orthodox in the United States; from then on, there was a substantial increase in immigration. In 1891 and later many Greek Orthodox churches were founded in large cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston, and in many smaller cities and towns such as Washington, DC; Newark, New Jersey; Ipswich, Massachusetts;