Tag: Philaret Ioannides

This week in American Orthodox history (June 18-24)

Jun 18, 2012

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Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas

June 21, 1863: Jovan Dabovich was born in San Francisco to Serbian immigrants. He would be baptized by an Orthodox priest aboard a visiting Russian ship, and he later became Fr. Sebastian, one of the most prominent Orthodox clergymen in America. June 18, 1878: Fr. Paul Kedrolivansky, dean of the Russian cathedral in San Francisco,…
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…