Posted by rjklancko
on 8/1/2009, 9:36 pm
in One Church - Yediniya Tserkov = Vol XVII # 1 Jan-Feb. 1963 p. 53, Book Reviews - A.E. wrote the following
"The First Greek Chruch in America was opened in NEw Orleans in 1866. In fasct the first so-called Greek church was opened in 1864 - the first priest being a russian, the parish was 2/3 Serbian, and many of the items necessary for worship being donated by the Tsar! The church was in the jurisdiction of the russian Orthodox Bishop who headed the Orthodox Church in North America......."
Even if you argues that Agapius Honcharentko was a renegade Ukrainophile and not a Russian who came by way of Greece - you still have the other facts to contend with.
ergo - this parish, with no decendents in the Orthodox Church today ( as claimed further on in the article) was not a Greek ethnic church in the true sense of the word.
Does this make the greek arguements now spurious?
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