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From: Robert Jerin <>
Subject: Re: [ALL] cem. update / new post / St. Nicholas, W. Mifflin
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:47:54 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <4AD7B80C.8060607@verizon.net>


I suspect this is not a Russian Church cemetery. Looking at some of the names and the fact that St Nicholas in Homestead refers to itself as Carpatho-Russian that it is a Rusyn cemetery. The correct term would be Carpatho-Rusyn, aka Rusniak, aka Ruthenian. This is a group that arrived in America mostly as Byzantine Rite aka Greek Rite Catholics. But with the Irish domination of the American Roman Catholic Church the idea of priests being married did not sit will with this mostly Irish R-C heirachy. Thus many converted to Orthodox religion.

http://www.faswebdesign.com/ECPA/Byzantine/Ruthenian.html

Robert Jerin 


--- On Thu, 10/15/09, Norm <> wrote:

> From: Norm <>
> Subject: [ALL] cem. update / new post / St. Nicholas, W. Mifflin
> To:
> Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 8:02 PM
> Listers and Lurkers,
>
> Thanks to non-listmember Bill Bodkin for submitting photos
> that were
> transcribed into a listing for:
> St. Nicholas Russian Greek Catholic Eastern Rite Cemetery,
> West Mifflin
> Borough
> The link:
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njm1/09-StNicholasRussGrCathEsnRt-WMifflin.html
>
> Kind Regards, Norm Meinert
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njm1/index.html
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