St. George UOC, Yardville, New Jersey
THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH--1919 LIBERTY AND WOODLAND STREETS, TRENTON, NJ
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity
was organized by the Very Rev. Vladimir A. Kashiw in September 1919 and was
incorporated the same year.At the time of organization the membership totalled
fifty-seven families. They bought a home at 18 Woodland Street which was
remodelled so that the first floor was used as the chapel while the second
floor was used as the priest's residence. A cemetery was added to their
possession and in 1924 the church on Liberty and Woodland Streets was bought
for $7,000.
In 1925 the church was blessed by the Most Rev. John
Theodorowich, archbishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America and
Canada. The Ukrainian Orthodox Diocese is directly connected with the Ukrainian
Orthodox Church in Kiev, Ukraine, the head of which is Metropolitan Wasyl
Lypkiwsky, of Kiev and all Ukraine. The Very Rev. V. A. Kashiw was the pastor
of the church from September 1919 until October 1925. After that time the
following priests were pastors of the
church: the Rev. Paul Korsunowsky, the Rev. N. Kostetzky, the Rev. W. Nowosad,
the Rev. D. Lazare, and the present pastor is the Rev. J. Zelechivsky.
The congregation now has about two hundred members,
of whom practically all are American citizens.
A History of Trenton,1679-1929 Two Hundred and Fifty
Years of Notable Town with Links in Four Centuries, published by Trenton
Historical Society, CHAPTER VIII: Churches and Religious Institutions,
Princeton University Press, 1929
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~trenton/historyoftrenton/churches/unclassified.htm
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To: Mr. Myroslaw
Smorodsky
We, the
undersigned, bona-fide members of the UOC-USA, headquartered in So. Bound
Brook, NJ, and parishioners of various member parishes across the country,
would like to express our indignation over the action taken by His Eminence
Archbishop of Ieropolis, in his unauthorized representation of the UOC-USA, in
initiation of a lawsuit against our sister parish Holy Ascension UOC, Clifton,
NJ and her duly-elected Parish Board, without the knowledge and/or consent of
the other member parishes of the UOC-USA and/or the general membership. We
strongly oppose this lawsuit which pits the entire Church and hierarchy against
a member parish and individual parishioners.
We are
committed to preserving the principles on which our founding fathers
established this Church, which guarantees "sobornopravnist" our
unique form of representative government in which individual parishes retain
the right to control matters pertaining to the management of their own
parishes, including all operational, administrative and financial
responsibilities, including but not limited to the employment of clergy, the
control of parish income, expenses and investments, the sale and disposition
and/or maintenance of all property (real and other) and assets (fixed and
other).
We protest this action.
Signed …….
Parishioners of St. George UOC, Yardville, NJ
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