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Standing Episcopal Conference
of Orthodox Bishops
SEC - Historic Photos
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Following, are historic of the Standing Episcopal Conference of Orthodox Bishops.
Lest we forget Metropolitan Peter...
Also, a great spiritual debt is owed to His Beatitude +PETER Zhurawetzky of Thrice Blessed Memory!
His Beatitude was brought to America for service to the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in Exile by Archbishop PALLADIOS and ordained to the Holy Priesthood by Archbishop ATHENAGORAS of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America (who later became the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantiople in 1948) on March 20, 1932, at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in New York City, for the Ukrainian jurisdiction.
Zhurawetzky was born in the Ukraine on December 7, 1901; he studied at the Theological Seminary in Vienna, Austria, and came to the United States in 1925. He traveled for a time as a missionary for the Ukrainian Church and later served as secretary for Bishops JOSEPH (Zuk) and THEODOR (Shpilka). He was schoolmates with the future Archbishop ANDREI (Kuschak), Bishop BOHDAN (Shpylka) and the recent Ukrainian Kievan Patriarch MSTYSLAV I (Skrypnyk) of South Bound Brook...all of Thrice Blessed Memory!
In 1940 Father Peter was transferred to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria headed by its Exarch in this Country, Metropolitan CHRISTOPHER (Contogeorge), who made him a Mitred Archpriest in 1942, and called him to administer the Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Diocese of America.
He was instrumental in founding The Standing Episcopal Conference in March of 1951 (10 years before the founding of SCOBA).
At the death of the SEC's first Moderator, Metropolitan JOSEPH, in 1961, Archbishop PETER was elected as his successor.
No one prophesied the reality of a unified Orthodox Church more than His Beatitude PETER II, who dedicated the larger part of his later works to "the American Orthodox church of the future, which would unite all Orthodox groups and enable them to fulfill their evangelic mission in the Americas."
His Beatitude Fell Asleep in the Lord on October 19, 1994 at his residence in Vineland, New Jersey.
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Historic early photo of gathering of member Hierarchs of the Standing Episcopal Conference of Orthodox Bishops at New York City. Included are Archbishops +JOACHIM (Souris) and +NIKOLAUS (Ilnyckyj) of Thrice Blessed Memories. |
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His Beatitude +PETER Zhurawetzky at his residence in Vineland, New Jersey. (October 1992) |
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Photo of His Beatitude +PETER at Saint Ignatius Orthodox Church in Orlando, Florida at the elevation of Father Michael to that of Mitred Archpriest before a crowd of 350 Faithful. (September 1986) |
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Consecration of +NIKOLAUS (Ilnyckyj) by Metropolitan +JOACHIM (Souris) with Archbishop +PETER (Zhurawetzky) for the UAOC. (1978) |
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Archbishop +CHRISTOPHER (Kontogeorge) was instrumental in Apostolic Succession of founding SEC Hierarchs. He forced the Greek Archdiocese to admit his Canonical Validity! (see document on "RELATIONS WITH CONSTANTINOPLE & SCOBA" page) |
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His Beatitude Metropolitan +VASILI Lypkiwsky found the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. (Kiev 1918) |
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