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Fr. Irvine & the Orthodox women’s college of Brooklyn

Dec 22, 2010

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in Early Converts, Firsts, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Westernization

Editor’s note: The following article originally appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on November 28, 1915: The Holy Orthodox Russo-Greek Catholic Church has established a college for young women at the corner of Pennsylvania and Glenmore avenues, in the East New York section. About nine years ago Archbishop Platon and the priests of the Russo-Greek…

Irvine’s responds to Hapgood’s “Musical heresy”

Sep 21, 2009

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Matthew Namee

in Early Converts, Orthodoxy in the Americas, Westernization

Last week, I posted Isabel Hapgood’s 1915 article in which she begged Archbishop Evdokim, “Please let us have a splendid choir!” She said, in part, “The Cathedral Choir, propertly constituted large enough, is immensely more important to your Church and Mission in this country than twenty little new parishes.” The whole article is well worth…

“Please let us have a splendid choir!”

Sep 18, 2009

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Westernization

On Wednesday, I posted a collection of quotations from Fr. Ingram Nathaniel Irvine. Among them was this, on the famous translator Isabel Hapgood: “That vixen Miss Hapgood. What a liar — she has damned the Church for years.” Over on our Facebook page, Michael Beck asked the very reasonable question, “What was his deal with Isabel…

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Fr. Irvine & the Orthodox women’s college of Brooklyn

Irvine’s responds to Hapgood’s “Musical heresy”

“Please let us have a splendid choir!”