Chronology of Important Dates 863Saints Cyril and Methodios begin missionary work among the Slavs. They were sent by the Greek Church, Constantinople, and formed the Slavonic alphabet as well as translated the Gospel of Christ.
place on Thanksgiving Day in St. John the Baptist Church, Bridgeport, CT. Archbishop Athenagoras, later to become Patriarch, officiated.
988Slavic people in and about Kiev received the Christian Faith from the Eastern Church. Leadership provided by Prince Vladimir. The Church of Kiev under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
1938- A Diocesan youth organization, called “The Sons and Daughters of the Eastern Church,” established. It was later named the “A.C.R.Y.—American Carpatho-Russian Youth.” A supplement magazine of the organization began publication, with Very Rev. Joseph Mihaly, Editor.
1890Our people from the Carpathian Mountain region of Europe begin immigrating to the United States and settling in the coal-mining and industrial centers. They soon organized Greek Catholic parishes to preserve their faith.
1939- First National Convention of the A.C.R.Y. convened in Johnstown, PA, October 6-8, attracting young people from parishes across the country. Church services, lectures, business and social events were on the agenda.
1934- Dissension in the Greek Catholic Church in America as latinizations of the rites, customs and traditions of the Eastern Church are promulgated.
1940- The Diocesan Seminary opens at facilities of St. Nicholas Church, New York, NY. The seminary later relocated to Nicholson, PA, and Bridgeport, CT, until its permanent home in Johnstown, 1936- Greek Catholic priests gather in PA. Pittsburgh, PA to discuss troubles in the Church and to propose the establishment 1946- The Diocese began publication of a Diocese. of its own newspaper, The Church Mes-
senger.
1937- First Diocesan Council held in Pittsburgh, at which clergy and lay dele- 1947- Following the end of World War gates from parishes returned to the faith II, a reorganization of the A.C.R.Y. took of their Forebears, and elected Fr. Orestes place August 29-30 in Pittsburgh, PA. P. Chornock as Bishop-Nominee. 1949- The first issue of The A.C.R.Y. 1938- The American Carpatho-Russian Annual published, with Very Rev. John Orthodox Greek Catholic Diocese offi- Yurcisin as Editor. It has appeared every cially established and canonized by the year since. Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantino1950- The first “A.C.R.Y. Day” for the ple. benefit of the Seminary was sponsored by 1938- The arrival of Bishop Orestes in the Homestead, PA Chapter on July 30. New York, NY hailed by a huge crowd as 1950- Christ the Saviour Church in the ship moved into harbor. A service was Johnstown, PA, has accepted a proposal held at St. Nicholas Church. to grant the Diocese a parcel of land and 1938- First Hierarchical Liturgy and $65,000, plus use of a parish home, for formal installation of Bishop Orestes took the purpose of erecting a Diocesan Cathe-
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