On the 100th anniversary of the death of Patriarch Tikhon and the 55th anniversary of the granting of Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in America, with the blessing of its Primate, His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, and the temporary Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and Canada, Bishop Matthew of Sourozh, with the participation of the leadership of the New York Public Library, a virtually complete archive of the Russian-American Orthodox Herald has been posted in free online access. Work on this project has been ongoing for the past two years and has become an example of fraternal cooperation between the Orthodox Church in America and the Patriarchal Parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate in the USA.
This unique resource, currently available free of charge to anyone, will be of interest not only to professional historians, but also to all lovers of modern church history.
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The Russian-American Orthodox Herald is the first official periodical of the Aleutian and Alaska Diocese, founded in 1896. The Herald served as the main means of informing the diocesan clergy of North America, published information about the events of the diocese, and also contained unique articles and travel notes of Russian Orthodox missionaries.
The first editor of the Herald from the day of the publication's founding was the rector of St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York, priest Alexander Hotovitsky, glorified as a New Martyr and Confessor of the Russian Church in 1994. His successor as editor from 1914 to 1930 was Father Leonid Turkevich (later Metropolitan Leonty).
Other famous authors whose works appeared on the pages of the magazine in the early years of its existence included the enlightener of America, Saint Patriarch Tikhon (Bellavin); Saint Raphael, Bishop of Brooklyn; Saint Righteous Priest Alexy Tovt, confessor and defender of Orthodoxy in America; Hieromartyr John Kochurov, Priest of Chicago, and many others.
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