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).
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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