Talk:Laurus (Škurla) of New York
Metropolitan Laurus was born Василий Михайлович Шку́рла. I realize that it is met most often on the internet as transliterated Skurla, but the proper phonetic spelling (which is found in certain sources) is Shkurla. The ROCOR website spells it this way in its history of Holy Trinity Monastery: http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/enghistory/enhis_htm.html Alexeykh