From time to time, when the history of a current or former parish is discussed, uusally either in this forum or the Photo Gallery (or, occasionally, in the Town Hall forum) questions are posed as to whether/when it did or did not have an iconostasis. (Obviously, a lot of - but not all - these queries are specific to the deconstruction of such in the era of Bishop Nicholas Elko.)

I bring this up because I have acquired a directory that offers somewhat of a point of reference for such questions - at least as regards a moment in time. According to the description that accompanied the directory, it was annotated by its former owner (a priest of the Byzantine Metropolia) as to which EC parishes (Ruthenian and otherwise) in the US had an iconostasis in place in 1978 (or thereabouts). There is, generally, no detail, just a check mark indicating that there was such.

The text itself, (Directory of Eastern Rite Catholic Churches in the United States of America), is a 1978 Revised Edition of an earlier (1975) directory by the same title. The directory itself was compiled by Father Andrew Baunchalk of the Philadelphia Archeparchy.

Many years,

Neil