Archives, 1845-1990.

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Archives, 1845-1990.

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The Archives of the Orthodox Church in America include correspondence, reports, minutes, agendas, petitions, printed and published matter, deeds, financial records, statistical surveys, photographs, clippings, audio and video tapes. The material deals with administrative and canonical decisions of the Church, including council minutes and reports; records of the response of the American Orthodoxy to the crisis of the Russian Revolution, including records of the General Board of Trustees which oversaw operations in the 1920s, reports from dioceses, deaneries, and parishes during the crisis, and correspondence with outside churches, secular institutions and legal counsel; and information on the immigrant experience of thousands of Southern and Eastern European and Near Eastern Orthodox, including personnel files and parish reports of emigre priests, documents of immigrant baptisms, marriages and divorces, and records concerning secular institutions which dealt with the immigrants.

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Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.

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Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America

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Orthodox Church in America. Holy Synod of Bishops.

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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...

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Orthodox Church in America. Metropolitan.

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