Tag: Orthodox Church
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American Orthodox demographics, 1906-1936
HT: OrthodoxHistory.org. This data and chart is from OrthodoxHistory.org. Author: Matthew Namee. Every ten years, from 1906 to 1936, the US Census Bureau compiled a Census of Religious Bodies. These censuses are gold mines of information on early American Orthodoxy. Also, unlike so many of the inflated numbers that you’re likely to see floating around,…
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Fr. Vladimir Berzonsky: Archbishop Job and the Struggle for Light
More accolades about the courage of Abp. Job facing up to corruption in the Church. As an outsider looking in, it was clear that Abp. Job’s increasingly clear voice that the corruption in the OCA needed the disinfectant that only the light of transparency would allow started to break through when he mustered the courage…
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Fr. Steven Kostoff: Reflection on Archbishop Job – A witness to the truth
Fr. Steven Kostoff asks, why wasn’t Bp. Job’s courageous stand for the truth during the OCA’s recent time of trial acknowled at his funeral? His Eminence, Archbishop Job of Chicago and the Midwest fell asleep in the Lord on Friday, December 18. His funeral services were held in Chicago on December 22 & 23, and…
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Philly.com: A Frayed Connection
Philadelphia Inquirer | David O’Reilly | H/T: ocanews.org In the resurgent neighborhood of Northern Liberties, among the smoked glass condos, hipper-than-thou restaurants, swank salons, and teeming cafes and bohemian tea shops, Old World holiness still flickers to life on Sunday mornings. Hardly anyone notices. The ages-old glow of Christendom’s most elaborate, enigmatic liturgy no longer…