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…

So many of us want to impact America. We want to change America. We want America to be the great, great country that we know it can be. And there are so many things going on in our society right now. There are so many wars and ideologies, and philosophies clashing, and religion is mixed up in the middle of that, and Christianity is mixed up in the middle of that. Because when I say religion, I mean there is…