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rev. the correctness of the byzantine response should not be confused with the response itself; this belongs to another section.
*The period of Russian Orthodox expansion out of Alaska is also the same period during which other Orthodox jurisdictions were established on American soil.
*The various Orthodox communities in North America did not always recognize Russian jurisdiction; they were often quite isolated and had no real contact with the Russian hierarchy. Thus, they saw themselves as beholden to their mother churches, not to Moscow.
*Greeks were the first to establish a presence on American soil in New Smyrna, Florida, in 1767, 26 years before St. Herman arrived in Alaska in 1794, which was not American at the time (being part of the Russian Empire). Nevertheless, these Greeks were not Orthodox but Catholic.
*The first Orthodox parish established on American soil was by Greeks in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1864, three years before Alaska became American and four years before the first Russian parish was established in American territory (in San Francisco).
*The claim that each autocephalous church may grant autocephaly to its daughter churches is historically accurate. The contradicts Russian history, in which Russia claimed independence for itself more than 150 years before Constantinople and the rest of the Church of Georgia recognized it: "If the autocephalous status derives from Christ, why was granted autocephaly the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in America anathematized by Antioch, you instead of being approved and praised for severing itself from its Patriarchate and its mother church, not Church—as some other Churches did too—by Constantinopleright of its own will and against the Canons?" (p. 61).
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