For Louis I should point out that when the Russian church was in charge of the whole US, it provided some Greek-speaking priests from the Crimea. These men were already bilingual in Russian and Greek, and quickly learned English.
The Russian writer Anton Chekhov and his brothers actually went to a Greek-language grade school in Taganrog.
I have often heard stories about how much English was in use in Russian parishes the US in the 1930\'s and 1940\'s, and how it disappeared with the big postwar influx of displaced persons. I used to belong to a Greek parish that was founded in 1938 to use English - the Greek Archdiocese wouldn\'t allow that at the time, so the parish became part of the Russian Metropolia (now the OCA) and remained there until the founding priest died and the Greek Archdiocese loosened up on having Sunday school and sermons in English.
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