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#380859 - 06/01/12 04:49 PM
ACROD Announces Special Assembly of Priests for the Election of
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ACROD Announces Special Assembly of Priests for the Election of Bishop
The calling of the Assembly follows a year-long search for a worthy candidate to succeed to the throne of our beloved late Metropolitan of Amissos, the Most Reverend Nicholas R. Smisko After a diligent search both within and outside the Diocese, with the blessing of Archbishop Demetrios of America, our Diocesan Locum tenens and Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, a worthy candidate has been found in the person of the Very Rev. Archimandrite Grigorios Tatsis. http://www.acrod.org/news/releases/2012-priest-assembly
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#380863 - 06/01/12 06:19 PM
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#380978 - 06/04/12 06:24 AM
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Prayers for our brothers and sisters of the Johnstown Diocese and especially for their clergy as the Assembly meets. May they be guided by the Holy Spirit in their actions as they undertake to name a successor to the deservedly much-beloved Metropolitan Nicholas of blessed memory.
Many years,
Neil
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"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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#381002 - 06/04/12 06:42 PM
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Perhaps the new Metropolitan will pursue a name change to Carpatho-Rusyn Church. When ever were the Carpathians Russian? I hope this was a joke, if not it was fairly disrespectful to our diocese and ethnic heritage. If you would like to learn more about it please read this well written wiki article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RusynsThat said, while I don't think anyone could replace our beloved Metropolitan Nicholas, I am glad that it looks like we will finally have a new bishop to lead our diocese =, its been over a year so far.
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#381005 - 06/04/12 08:51 PM
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It was no joke! And it meant no disrespect. It simply was intended to bring attention to a serious misnomer. Many persons who call themselves CarpathoRussians do not understand their heritage. Further, wikipedia is not something scholars use as a reference. Please see: http://www.carpathorusynsociety.org/ for accuracy. Also, http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=R8
Edited by Pavloosh (06/04/12 08:58 PM)
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#381016 - 06/04/12 11:27 PM
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The direction of this thread has NOTHING to do with the upcoming election of a bishop for our Diocese. However, I want to clarify something from an historical standpoint. The founders of the Diocese deliberately chose to use the term "Carpatho- Russian" in the title. While the term "Carpatho-Rusyn" has gained popularity in recent years, and is used by many in ACROD when speaking about ethnicity (myself included), the fact is that the founders of the Diocese held to the view that they were, indeed, part of the "Russian people" which is made up of Great Russians, Little Russians, White Russians and Carpatho-Russians. Yes, the founders wished to retain their unique traditions and customs (hence the "ani do Moskvi" part of "Ani do Rimu, ani do Moskvi") but they had no problems with Russians as such, or of seeing themselves as "Russians" in the broad sense. To illustrate this, here are some relevant quotes from Fr. John Yurcisin's A History of the Carpatho-Russian People and Their Church: The Carpatho-Russian people are akin to their Russian brethren in Russia, Galicia and Bukovina. They belong to the little Russian linguistic group like the Russians in Galicia and Bukovina. They call themselves Russki, Rusnaki, Rusiny, Karpatorusski, Karpatski Rusiny, and Karpatho Rossy. During the Austro-Hungarian period they were known as Vengerski Rusy, Uhro Rusy, Uhorski Rusiny, meaning Russians in Hungary. The words Vengry, Uhry means Hungarian. Following World War I when the Carpatho-Russians were incorporated as an autonomous part of the Czechoslovak Republic as Sub-Carpatho-Russia -Pod-Karpatska Rus, they reverted to the use of their ancient appellation Karpatorusski-Carpatho-Russian.
The Vatican has always referred to the Carpatho-Russians in its documents as Ruthenians and their homeland as Ruthenia or Carpatho-Ruthenia. The word Ruthenian is derived from the Latin word “ruten” which was an early Latin term for “Russian”. Some historians consider it a corrupt term which was made by misspelling the letter “s” with “t” and later it was used by the Vatican to refer to the Russians south of the Carpathian Mountains. For some reason the Vatican has always refrained in calling those people Russian and insists on calling them Ruthenian. This name is repugnant to the Carpatho-Russians and they feel insulted when it is used. Some of the writers in England have been using this term to refer to the Carpatho-Russians because it is used by the Vatican. The Carpatho-Russians call themselves Russki. Some Carpatho-Russians will also say they are "Rusnaki" or "Rusiny". Furthermore Zatkovich permitted himself to be used by former pro-Hungarians elements in Europe and America who were against everything Russian. He became their tool in promoting the Rusin-Ruthenian idea which was the pet of the pro-Magyar Uniate Clergy who feared the development of any form of Russian nationalism among our people because it would bring them in contact with Orthodoxy, the faith of the Carpatho Russian Forebearers. Thus, they tried to discourage any reference to Russia or things Russian in the literary, cultural and educational development of the people. (Sobranije) published "Prosvita", which propounded the idea that our people were "Rusin" and not Russian. I have known people to alter the title of the Diocese to read "American Carpatho-Rusyn Diocese" but I think that does a disservice to the Founding Fathers of the Diocese. Fr. David
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