The History of Orthodoxy in North America, class 6

Content:
14. The return of Saint Tikhon to Russia in 1907
15. The importance of Bishop Platon
16. The work of Fr. Nathaniel Irvine, a convert to Orthodoxy from the Episcopal Church
17. Anglican / Episcopal recruitment efforts among the Orthodox in the US
18. The scope of Orthodox infrastructure in the US: 4 foreign language journals, 2 seminaries, a monastery, an orphanage, over 100 parishes etc.
19. The Uniates in the US
      a. The Carpatho - Rusyns: origins, ancient customs, conflict in Europe and confrontation in the US with the Latin Bishops
      b. Latin influences on Carpatho-Rusyn piety and church design
      c. 1907 - 1914 72 Uniate parishes received into the Orthodox Church in the US
20. A renegade Bishop marries, is cast out of the Church but continues to ordain - the origin of vagante bishops
21. Russian missionary work in the US with Greeks, Serbs and Syrians
22. The attempt at consolidation of Orthodox immigrants in the US into a single American Orthodox Church
23. The Anglicans approach the Orthodox about joining Orthodoxy but eventually back away from that effort
24. World War I, the abdication of the Czar and the rise to power of the Bolsheviks
25. Bolshevik power ends Russian Orthodox funding of missionary activity and church building construction in the US
26. The state of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia in 1917 - some corruption, liberals in the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy, communist infiltration and nihilistic thinking
27. The convening of an all Russia Church Sobor / Great Council, the restoration of the Patriarchate and the election of Tikhon as Patriarch
28. The election of a new synod of Bishops
29. Soviet Communist persecution of the Church stalls further reform efforts and drives many clergy and Bishops into exile
30. St Tikhon anathematizes Communists
31. The dispersal of the Russian Church outside of Russia - Crimea, Constantinople, Serbia, China, Western Europe
32. The Church abroad organizes: The Rise of ROCOR - American bishops present
33. The Russian Church abroad calls for the restoration of the Romanov dynasty and earns the ire of the Soviet government
34 The activities of Metropolitan Evlogi and schism
35. The false letter of Patriarch Tikhon
36. The Russian Church abroad fractures - church politics, theological differences, political differences abound

Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Washington, DC
June 23, 2020
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