Download or read book Historical Outline of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America and in Particular of the Parish of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in the City of Toronto (Classic Reprint) written by Leonid Ivan Strakhovsky and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Outline of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America and in Particular of the Parish of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in the City of Toronto At that time Bishop John had under his jurisdiction, besides Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and California, also a parish in New York which was founded in 1870 and whose first pastor was Father Nicholas Bierring, a native of Denmark and formerly professor of philosophy and history of the Roman Catholic Seminary in Baltimore, who Joined the Rus sian Orthodox Church because of his disagreement with the dogma of the infallibility of the Pope. In this church in New York the liturgy was performed, in turn, in Church Slavonic and in English, and the English services attracted a growing attendance of Americans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.