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The Origins of the “Myth of Unity”

Nov 4, 2009

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in Firsts, Historiography, Inter-Orthodox, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Pre-1921 Unity

Back in June, I gave a paper at St. Vladimir’s Seminary entitled, “The Myth of Past Unity and the Origins of Jurisdictional Pluralism in American Orthodoxy.” The unwieldy title notwithstanding, the premise of my paper was simple: that the commonly-held story of a unified American Orthodoxy which fragmented after the Russian Revolution is, quite simply,…

Jerusalem’s Abp Panteleimon in America, 1924-1931

Oct 27, 2009

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Uncategorized

On October 19, I wrote about Archbishop Panteleimon of Neapolis (today’s Nablus), a bishop of the Jerusalem Patriarchate who was active in America in the 1920s. Since then, thanks to help from some readers, I’ve learned more about Abp Panteleimon’s later years in America. Here’s an update. Abp Panteleimon seems to roughly parallel the Antiochian…

“When we speak of Tsarist pressure”

Jul 17, 2009

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Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

in Inter-Orthodox, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Pre-1921 Unity

In the late 1920s, after Abp. Aftimios Ofiesh (the successor to St. Raphael in the see of Brooklyn and the subject of my M.Div. thesis and possible future book) had in 1927 established, with the blessing of the Russian Metropolia, the so-called “American Orthodox Catholic Church,” he engaged in something of a debate via correspondence…

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The Origins of the “Myth of Unity”

Jerusalem’s Abp Panteleimon in America, 1924-1931

“When we speak of Tsarist pressure”