The History of Orthodoxy in North America, by Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen), class 8

Content:
55. The Reasons for the Demise of the Living Church
56. Recap of previous week
57.The Emergence of a Plurality of Jurisdictions in North America
58. From Orthodox Unity Under the Russian Mission to an Ever Shifting Ecclesiastical Landscape
59. Russian Jurisdictions Abroad Go Into and Out of Communion With the Moscow Patriarchate (MP)
60. The Role of the Oath of Loyalty to the Soviet State in Blocking Communion With the MP
61. The Influence of the Theological Institute in Paris on St. Vladimir's Seminary in the US
62. The Ecumenical Patriarch (EP) - An Ecclesiastical Entrepreneur
63. The EP Declares the Russian Church in the US as not legitimate because it is not under his jurisdiction.
64. The EP moves on Russian parishes in Europe and North America
65. Russian parishes in Western Europe return to MP a year ago
66. Fr. Nathaniel's Re-ordination upsets the Anglicans, who view it as a challenge to the validity of Anglican Holy Orders
67. War, Revolution and Displacement of Greeks, Syrians, Armenians and Palestinians send many Orthodox Christians to the US
68. The Influx of Orthodox Emigres to the US Strains the Resources of the Church
69. The Orthodox Immigration puts a Damper on the Development of American Orthodoxy; great demand for liturgies in non-English languages
70. The Life and Times of Aftimios Ofiesh - A Married Orthodox Bishop and source of vagante bishops in the Orthodox world
71. The 1927 Foundation of the American Orthodox Catholic Church by Eftimios Ofiesh
72. The Mission of Bishop Benjamin in the US - The MP's Envoy and the failure of reunification
73. The State of the Russian Church in the Soviet Union Under Stalin in the 1930s and 40s
74. World War II and Church Revival in the USSR
75. The Complexity of Ukraine - Soviet persecution and the famine, the liquidation of the Kulaks, the Uniates in the West, the Nazi Invasion
76. A russian film, "POP" about the reopening of Orthodox Churches in Ukraine under the Nazis
77.The Life of Fr. Arseny
78. Post WWII Ecumenism - The Russian Orthodox Church in the USSR Travels Abroad and participates in the World Council of Churches.
79. The 1946 Failure of the Metropolia to Unify with the MP and their Canonical Isolation

Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Washington, DC
July 7, 2020
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