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Fifteen Amazing Facts in LOST HISTORIES

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Source: Orthodox History

Originally published on May 29, 2024

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As you may have seen, Ancient Faith recently published my book, Lost Histories: The Good, the Bad & the Strange in Early American Orthodoxy. If you like this website, you’re the target audience for the book. And while reading it should give you a good handle on the early history of Orthodoxy in America, I wrote it not just to educate but — hopefully — to amaze and surprise you (even if you’re a longtime reader of this website). With that in mind, here are fifteen random, amazing facts from the book (which you can buy HERE).

  1. The first Divine Liturgy on US soil, in 1865 (when Alaska was still Russian territory) was by a Ukrainian nationalist with a fake name who claimed he was on the run from Tsarist assassins and went on to marry the daughter of an Italian-American revolutionary and tried to form a Slavic Protestant church in the Bay Area…  Read the complete article here
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