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History. The church was commissioned by a growing Orthodox community consisting of Rusyns, Russians, Serbs and Greeks of Chicago, Illinois, and stands within the neighborhood known today as Ukrainian Village. The founders of the church were immigrants from Carpathian Rus', Galicia, and the Balkans.
St. John Kochurov of ChicagoBuilder of Holy Trinity CathedralFeast Day - October 31. 1871 Born in Riazan, Russia1895 Ordination to the Priesthood1895 Started his missionary work in America1903 Build Holy Trinity Cathedral1907 Returned to Russia1917 Martyred1994 Canonized a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church.
History. On August 3, 1931, Rev. Peter Semkoff officially petitioned Theophilus, Archbishop of Chicago, the local bishop of the Russian Metropolia, for his permission to establish a new parish in the Gage Park area of Chicago (2410 W 53rd St. Chicago, IL 60632), to be eventually known as St. Peter and St. Paul Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek ...
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Holy Trinity was made a cathedral in 1923, and serves as See Cathedral for the Midwest Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America, which is the autocephalous (self-governing) North American daughter church of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Nov 6, 2009 · Chicago’s OCA cathedral, known for the past century as Holy Trinity, had a lot of names in its early years. It’s a pretty convoluted history, and I am attempting to unravel it. Here’s what I’ve got so far. The parish was formally founded as St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church on May 18, 1892, and it was originally located at #20 North ...
Resembling provincial Russian churches, Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral was designed by Louis Sullivan to serve as a center of a Russian neighborhood on Chicago's Near-North Side. Its construction was partially funded by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
