Papers, 1922-1964.

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Papers, 1922-1964.

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Correspondence with bishops, various church officials and priests of other parishes, records of parish work and reports on church activities, certificates and photographs, articles by and papers about Basil Bensin, memoirs and autobiographical notes, personal and family correspondence, and immigration papers, including letters from the American Consulate in Riga, Latvia, regarding the immigration of Father Popoff's wife, 1931-1934.

1.5 cubic ft.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.

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Popoff, Constantin Vasilievich, 1875-1965.

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Archpriest Constantin Popoff was born in Russia and was sent to work as a missionary in the United States, 1896-1907. He returned to Russia but came back to North America in 1928, serving as a parish priest in the Midwest, California and in Canada. From the description of Papers, 1922-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155549668 ...

Popoff family.

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Bensin, Basil, 1881-1973.

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Professor. A graduate of Moscow Theological Academy, Dr. Bensin emigrated to the United States in 1905, taught at several Orthodox seminaries, and was a driving force behind St. Vladimir's Seminary in New York City (1938-1952). He was also a professor of agronomy, and devoted much of his later life to research and writings on the history of the Church in America. From the description of Papers, 1931-1950, 1931-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155549792 ...

United States. Consulate (Riga, Latvia)

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Orthodox Church in America

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The Orthodox Church in America traces its beginnings to Russian Orthodox missionaries who settled in Alaska in 1794. Over the years the Church in America was administered as a diocese, and later an archdiocese, of the Russian Orthodox Church, and was known as the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America. After the Russian Revolution, when regular communication with the church hierarchy in Moscow was impossible, the American Church declared itself temporarily autonomous. This de facto au...