Section 06 — Repose and the Jurisdictional Aftermath

Raphael reposed on 27 February 1915, mourned by the diocese he had built. Two years later the Russian Revolution cut the American Church off from its Moscow center and set in motion the fragmentation of the once-unified American Orthodoxy into separate national jurisdictions — the process in which Raphael’s memory became the symbol of a lost unity. This section tells his death, and then, soberly and without taking sides among the jurisdictions, the aftermath.

Tradition: Antiochian Orthodox (Arab-American diaspora); Pan-Orthodox on the jurisdictional question

Contents

File Description
repose-1915.md His final illness and death in Brooklyn on 27 February 1915; the mourning of the diocese and the state of the mission he left
the-fragmentation-after-1917.md A §4 both-sides, non-partisan account of how the Russian Revolution shattered the unified American Church into national jurisdictions — including the division of Raphael’s own Syro-Arab community — and how his memory became the emblem of the lost unity, without adjudicating among the jurisdictions

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