November 29, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Canada, Christianity, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Orthodoxy, explorers, Fr. Andrew Phillips, Greenland, Irish Orthodox, Middle Ages, Norse, North American Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christian, Orthodox Christianity, orthodoxy, religion, Russian Orthodox, Russian Orthodoxy, Scandinavia, Vikings, Vinland, Western Orthodoxy
Last year I found a brief discussion of how it could’ve gone if Norse Orthodox visitors and settlers here from the 10th to 15th centuries, and rumored Irish Orthodox monk-visitors, had evangelized (more?). A few years ago I saw this somewhat more detailed discussion of the history from Fr. Andrew Phillips of the Russian Orthodox Church [...]
November 14, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: All-American Councils, bishops, chief bishops, Christianity, church, church councils, churches, college converts, converts from Anglicanism, converts from Catholicism, converts from Protestantism, converts from the Anglican Church, converts from the Episcopal Church, converts to Orthodoxy, Dmitri Royster, Eastern Christianity, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, ex-Catholics, ex-Episcopalians, Exarchate of Mexico, hierarchy, independent Catholics, independent Orthodox, JFK assassination, Jose Cortes y Olmos, metropolitan archbishops, Metropolitan Herman Swaiko, Metropolitan Jonah, metropolitans, Mexican Christianity, Mexican National Catholic Church, Mexican Orthodox Christianity, Mexican Orthodoxy, Mexican-Americans, Mexicans, Mexico, modern church councils, North American Orthodoxy, OCA, OCF, Orthodox bishops, Orthodox Christian Fellowship, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Christianity in America, Orthodox Christianity in Mexico, Orthodox Christianity in North America, Orthodox Church, Orthodox church councils, Orthodox Church in America, Orthodox Church in Mexico, Orthodox Church in North America, Orthodox Churches, Orthodox converts, Orthodox mission, orthodoxy, Orthodoxy in America, Orthodoxy in Mexico, Orthodoxy in North America, Patriarchate of Serbia, patriarchs, presiding bishops, primates, religion, Robert Royster, Russian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodoxy, Serbian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodoxy, synods, vagante, Warren Commission
On the 1st of this month Abbot Jonah (Paffhausen) from California was consecrated Titular Bishop of Ft. Worth, Texas, and Auxiliary Bishop in the OCA’s Diocese of Dallas and the South — probably the newest Bishop in the entire Orthodox Church. Yesterday (Wed.) he was elected Primate of the OCA, quite possibly the first convert [...]
November 13, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: orthodoxy, Orthodox Christianity, Russian Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Christianity, religion, Eastern Orthodoxy, Russia, Christmas, prayers, Andrew Greeley, Roman Catholicism, romance, sociology, sociology of religion, Soviet Union, literature, American literature, Irish American literature, Catholic priests, spiritual reading, current events, Eastern Europe, Blackie Ryan, Russians
The sociologist and novelist, not the boxer … though he’s always been a fighter too! Over the weekend his coat got caught in a taxi door in the Chicago area and he was dragged a bit, suffering a skull fracture. (I’m sure he’s wondered since then if coats should be made of such strong stuff!) [...]
