Papers, 1910-1937.

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Papers, 1910-1937.

Papers of Father Sergius Snegireff include letters and postcards, 1910-1928; a business diary concerning purchase of war supplies, 1916; and business correspondence about pruchase of vestments and supplies for Holy Trinity Cathedral in Chicago, 1934-1937.

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Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.

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Snegireff, Sergius, 1882-1947.

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Born and educated in Russia, Father Snegireff was ordained a priest in 1912 after coming to America. He was treasurer of the Church administration, 1919-1924, was priest of Russian churches in Athens, Greece, in Montreal, Canada, and in Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois. From the description of Papers, 1910-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155549766 ...

Holy Trinity Cathedral (Chicago, Ill.)

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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...