Sunday, February 19, 2006

Fr. Andrew Phillips: Orthodox Christians in North America 1000 Years Ago

re: there were Vikings and then there were Vikings, and some of the earliest to reach America's shores were Orthodox Christians...

(The author proposes an interesting alternate history ponderable: What if the early Scandinavians had settled in large numbers, with their priests and bishops, perhaps establishing an Orthodox America well before Columbus...)

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