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1. RE: I am looking for contact with Millville old believers
Nov 9 2009, 1:39 AM EST
| Post edited: Nov 9 2009, 7:21 AM EST
Good health to you Anonymous,NYC is quite a place, I work to get further away from the citiesas they are a temption. Thank for your question. My understanding is that a rather famous Old Believer iconographer lived in Millville and did iconography for the Erie Church. If I am not mistaken most the Old Believers in New Jersey rejoined the Nikonites. There are actually two Millville's in New Jersey, in different counties. I have not located which one the Old Believers emigrated to. I heard of a very large farm operated by Russians at least 20 years ago which was somewhere in New Jersey, they might know, or some phone calls to the Erie Old Believers could give you more information. I will look over my notes and see if I can find more about this iconographer or farm and will post anything I find to this thread, so you might look back from time to time. If you ever find out anything more exactly about these Old Believers, if they are now with the Nikonites, or which Millville they are in, I am interested to know too, so please add a posting of such. The only other things I know about it, except things online like the page location this posted thread is from, is from 2002 when an Old Believer in New Jersey who was 18 years old contacted me. He informed me that he did his own prayers alone. He had enlisted in the military and was going to the war. This all began in my online chat room on the topic of Orthodoxy and we emailed several times as well. But I never have heard from him since he went to war. I still remember him and hope to have contact again. As an over-the-road truck driver I went to New Jersey many times and wanted to lookup the Old Believers there. Using a semi-truck makes it difficult to site-see, so I never did anything about it. I doubt that I will ever make it back to New Jersey, but I am interested, the Lord knows better than me what will be. Forgive, brother John Do you find this valuable? |
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John_Alden |
2. RE: I am looking for contact with Millville old believers
Nov 9 2009, 7:21 AM EST
| Post edited: Nov 9 2009, 7:25 AM EST
After looking into my notes I have found that there is a Millville in Cumberland County and Sussex County, New Jersey.I also found that there are Theodosians, Pomorians and Nekrasovtsy-Semeyskie Old Believers in New Jersey, but I am not sure about specifics. I know that it is always possible to search out these details and learn more, it does take effort though. The iconographer Pimen Maksimovich Sofronov was born in Estonia, in the Old Believer community on the shore of Lake Peipus, 1898. He emigrated to Millville, NJ where there is said to be a St. Nicholas Old Orthodox Church built in 1937. If this website below is that Church it turned unionist and is now Nikonite. http://www.stnicholasroc.org Either way they might know more than me. Pimen died in 1973 If I ever learn of more information I will post it here. Forgive, brother John Do you find this valuable? |
