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Tag: Evtikhy Balanovitch

Fr. Ilia Zotikov: A Hieromartyr in a File Drawer

Feb 15, 2012

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Aram Sarkisian

in Orthodoxy in the Americas, Saints

One of the little mysteries I’ve been meaning to research for some time has a bit of a family connection. This past week, I finally had the opportunity to delve into it, and the results were far different than I ever anticipated. My great-grandparents were married on May 2/15, 1908 at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox…
A Russian Church in New York, 1895

Oct 20, 2009

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Matthew Namee

in Firsts, Orthodoxy in the Americas

Since the closing of Fr. Nicholas Bjerring’s chapel in 1883, New York City had been without a Russian Orthodox place of worship. Greek churches were founded in the city in 1892 and ’94, and by 1895, there were Russian parishes in Minnesota, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Finally, in April of 1895, the Russian Mission returned to…

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