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THE SOCIETY OF CLERKS SECULAR OF SAINT BASIL
(The Basilian Fathers)
HISTORY OF ITS FORMATION

(History of the Formation of The Society of Clerks Secular
of Saint Basil)

Excerpts:

FOREWORD - INTRODUCTION: A BRIEF HISTORY OF BASILIAN
"ORDERS" AND GENERALITIES ABOUT THE RULE OF SAINT BASIL
AND SOME WHO FOLLOW THE RULE

Under the name of Basilians are included all the religious
who follow the Rule of St. Basil. The monasteries of such
religious have never possessed the hierarchical organization
which ordinarily exists in the houses of an order properly
so called. Only a few houses were formerly grouped into
congregations or are today so combined. St. Basil drew up
his Rule for the members of the monastery he founded about
356 on the banks of the Iris in Cappadocia.


CHAPTER 1 EARLY ORTHODOX IN NORTH AMERICA

The Russian Orthodox Church was the first Orthodox
Jurisdiction in North America, and according to Canon and
tradition, was therefore the governing Jurisdiction of
North America. For centuries Russian fishermen and hunters
on the Eastern coast of Russia had regularly gone to
Alaska, often taking Priests with them on extended fishing
and hunting expeditions. On July 20, 1741, Priest-Monk
Illarion Trusov, assisted by Father Inaty Kozirevsky
celebrated the first historically recorded Divine Liturgy
in North America, on the Russian ship St. Peter, probably
in Sitka Bay, Alaska. (Since DeSoto had an Orthodox Priest
with him on his explorations, it is probable that Priest
and also the Priests who accompanied the earlier hunters
and fishers to Alaska also prayed Divine Liturgy. But that
by the Priest-Monk Illarion Trusov, is the first recorded.)
In 1872 the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church
founded the Diocese of Aleutia and Alaska with its
cathedral in San Francisco.

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The Society of Clerks Secular of Saint Basil  
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