1932 Newspaper Validates AOCC Claims

What follows is not opinion, speculation, or later reconstruction. It is a primary historical source. The article below was published on October 1, 1932, in the New York World-Telegram, a widely circulated and reputable American newspaper of its time. This was not a fringe religious circular or an internal church bulletin. It was mainstream press reporting on a major ecclesiastical development in the United States. The article documents the completion of a full Orthodox hierarchy in North America under the…

The Establishment of The American Orthodox Catholic Church in 1927

In this video, recorded on December 17, 2025, Archbishop Wayne Daniels & Fr. Don Purdum discuss the history of the American Orthodox Catholic Church and the challenges of Orthodox ecclesiology facing today’s world. We talk about the history of the American Orthodox Catholic Church, its establishment as the first autocephalous American Orthodox Church in 1927 and the challenges that followed. We got into the good, the bad, and the ugly…