Another American Saint
October 18
On this day in 1923, the Council of the Serbian Church appointed Archimandrite St. Mardarije (Uskoković) as the first bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North America.
Before the Russian Revolution of 1917, all Orthodox Christians in North America, except for the Greeks, were under the jurisdiction of the Russian Church. The plan of Bishop St. Tik…
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