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1794 - 1994

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INTRODUCTION 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 POSTSCRIPT

Introduction
  1. The Alaskan Mission (1794-1870)
    • The Beginnings of the Alaskan Mission
    • Gregory Shelikov
    • The Alaskan Mission
    • St. Herman of Alaska
    • St. Innocent
    • Fr. Jacob Netsvetov
    • The Meaning of the Alaskan Mission

  2. Immigration and Conversion (1870-1920)
    • From Mission to Missionary Diocese
    • Early Orthodox Immigration to the United States
    • The "New Immigration"
    • The Uniates
    • The "New Immigrant" Experience
    • The Uniate Dilemma
    • Alexis Toth and the Uniate Return to Orthodoxy
    • From "Greek Catholic" to "Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic"
    • The Greeks
    • The Greek Immigrant Experience
    • The Missionary Diocese and the Greeks
    • Conclusion

  3. Institutions of the Immigrant Church
    • From Missionary Diocese to Multi-Ethnic American Diocese
    • The Vision of Archbishop Tikhon
    • Institutional Growth
    • Social Services
    • Publications
    • Finances
    • From Immigrant Church to North American Diocese

  4. Other Orthodox Immigrations
    • The Arabs
    • The Serbs
    • The Albanians
    • The Romanians
    • Other Slavic Immigrations
    • Orthodox Immigration to Canada

  5. The Collapse of the Immigrant Church
    • The Russian Revolution and the Orthodox Church
    • Tensions within the Missionary Archdiocese
    • The Collapse of Orthodox Unity in America
    • The Establishment of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese
    • The Collapse of the American Diocese
    • Further Divisions in the Russian-American Community

  6. The Jurisdictional Solution
    • The Effects of Jurisdictionalism

  7. The Ethnic Churches
    • Cultural Hibernation
    • Self-Sufficiency
    • Ethnarchy
    • Archbishop Athenagoras (Spiros)
    • Archbishop Anthony (Bashir)
    • Bishop Polycarp (Morusca) and Archbishop Valerian (Trifa)
    • Metropolitan Leonty (Turkevich)
    • The Enduring Ethnic Churches

  8. Challenges to the Ethnic Churches
    • Sociological Transformations (1940-1970)
    • "Hyphenated Americans"
    • The Third Generation
    • Debates over Language
    • Theological Renewal
    • Canonical Questions
    • The Metropolia

  9. The Emerging American Mission
    • The Autocephaly Debate
    • The American Mission
    • Unity
    • Spiritual Renewal
    • Monasticism
    • Evangelization
    • Social Witness
    • The Emerging American Mission

  10. Reflections on American Orthodoxy - Leonid Kishkovsky
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