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On August 3, 1931, Rev. Peter Semkoff officially petitioned Metropolitan Theophilus, the local bishop of the Russian Metropolia, for his permission to establish a new parish in the Gage Park area of Chicago (2410 W 53rd St. Chicago, IL 60632), to be eventually known as St. Peter and St. Paul Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church. The ...
The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of North America (ACROD) is a diocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with 78 parishes in the United States and Canada. Though the diocese is directly responsible to the Patriarchate, it is under the spiritual supervision of the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America .
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese St. Ioasaph Orthodox Church , also known as St. Ioasaph's, was a historic Russian Orthodox church in Muddy, Illinois . It was founded in 1911 [ 3 ] and completed in 1913.
The Protection of the Holy Virgin Mary Orthodox Church in Royalton, IL is one of the only remaining Russian Orthodox churches in southern Illinois. [3] [4] [5] The church was founded by eastern European immigrants, including Rusyns, [2] [6] [4] [7] Ukrainians, Polish, Latvians, and Russians, [8] many of whom worked in local coal mines [9] [10] [11] The three principal founders were Frank ...
Pages in category "American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
At this time all Eastern Orthodox Christians in North America were united under the omophorion (Church authority and protection) of the Patriarch of Moscow, through the Russian Church's North American diocese. The unity was not merely theoretical, but was a reality, since there was then no other diocese on the continent.
Carpatho-Rusyn Cultural and Educational Center, Munhall, PA. The Carpatho-Rusyn Society has purchased the historic former Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Munhall, Pennsylvania, to convert it into the nation's first National Carpatho-Rusyn Cultural Center. The historic structure was the first cathedral in America exclusively for Carpatho ...
Many Carpatho-Rusyns, including Varzaly, believed clerical celibacy to be so inherently unnatural as to lead inevitably to promiscuity and sexual abuse. During the celibacy conflict Varzaly used the newspaper to argue against Cum Data Fuerit and for continuation of a traditional married clergy within the Church. He joined, eventually, with ...