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Historical Events
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1579-07-08 - Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1652-07-25 - Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1721-01-25 - Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
1897-03-20 - 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in NY
1902-07-29 - Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US & Canada forms
1927-08-19 - Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state.
1929-08-24 - Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
1944-06-11 - 1st Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC
1948-07-08 - 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
1960-04-21 - Founding of the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith in Washington, D.C.
1965-12-07 - Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
1988-06-05 - Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary
1990-10-13 - 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs held in St Basil's Cathedral
1991-12-28 - Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
1992-02-20 - Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
1999-05-07 - Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
2000-11-05 - Emperor Haile Selassie I is given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
2004-03-17 - Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
2004-09-11 - All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria).
2004-11-27 - Pope John Paul II returned the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2007-04-25 - Boris Yeltsin's funeral - the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
Famous Birthdays
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1596-12-21 - Petro Mohyla, Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)
1605-05-24 - Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1759-07-19 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
1865-12-19 - Tikhon Toropets, Pskov Russia, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint
1877-11-09 - Sergei US Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1880-09-14 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer (d. 1961)
1885-03-22 - Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1894-11-27 - Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox saint (d. 1971)
1900-07-10 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979)
1910-07-23 - Pimen, [Sergei Irzjekov], patriarch Russian-Orthodox Cathederal
1914-06-19 - Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 2003)
1914-09-08 - Dimitrios I, patriarch (primus interparis orthodox Christians)
1917-05-01 - Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1923-02-12 - Chaskel Besser, Orthodox rabbi
1927-10-09 - Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russion Orthodox Priest
1929-01-23 - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
1933-05-24 - Aharon Lichtenstein, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1959-03-22 - Avraham Fried, Orthodox Jewish Musician
1977-01-20 - Paul "Goggo" Adams, cricketer (lefty very unorthodox bowler for S Afr)
Famous Deaths
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1589-02-19 - Saint Philothei, Orthodox martyr and Patron of Athens (b. 1522)
1621-12-30 - Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
1646-12-22 - Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)
1652-04-15 - Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1681-08-17 - Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 76
1779-08-24 - Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
1833-01-14 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox saint (b. 1759)
1837-12-13 - Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756)
1906-04-11 - Georgi Apollonovitch Gapon, Rus-orthodox clergyman/tsarist agent, dies
1912-02-16 - St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest (b. 1836)
1961-10-04 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)
1962-11-29 - Rav Aaron Kotler, Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood NJ
1969-03-28 - Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
1970-04-17 - Sergei U S Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-Orthodox church, dies at 92
1971-01-01 - Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1894)
1979-08-24 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk and wonder-worker (b. 1898)
1983-12-13 - Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christian priest and theologian (b. 1921)
1989-04-07 - Tikhon Toropets, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123(?)
1990-05-03 - Pimen, [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 79
1991-10-02 - Dimitrios I, patriarch/primus interparis orthodox Christians, dies
1995-02-19 - Shlomo Averbach, Israeli ultra-orthodox rabbi, dies at 84
1995-11-02 - Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, russion Orthodox Priest, dies at 68
2001-10-04 - Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi
2002-08-24 - Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
2005-01-10 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)
2006-06-08 - Abouna Matta El Meskeen, Coptic Orthodox monk (b. 1919)
2007-07-30 - Teoctist, Ex-Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (b. 1915)
