Tweehonderd Jaar Orthodoxie in Alaska en Noord-Amerika

• Published in: Het Christelijk Oosten
• Main Author: van Rossum, Joost
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Brill 1995
• Subjects: aleut; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/29497663-0470102003; https://brill.com/view/journals/choo/47/1-2/article-p29_3.xml; https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/choo/47/1-2/article-p29_3.xml

200 years of Orthodoxy in Alaska and North America On the occasion of the commemoration of the arrival in Alaska of Russian monks/missionaries 200 years ago, the author presents a survey of the history of Orthodoxy in North America. Saints such as St Herman, a simple and humble monk, St Innokentij, who translated the Bible and the Liturgy into the various Alaskan languages, Jacob Netsvetov, Peter the Aleut and Juvenalij, played an important part in this history. Canonical unity among the Orthodox in America clearly existed until the beginning of the twentieth century. This came to an end when the various ethnic groupings started to give preference to their own jurisdictions. In 1970 the Russian Orthodox Church declared the Orthodox Church of America (OCA) ecclesiastically independent, but as yet this was not enough to bring about a restoration of the former unity.