the American Orthodox Catholic church, which was a big name for a very small church. The church was
the whole outfit, right? So you, wow. So you're saying that the Orthodox Catholic Church in the U.S.
Absolutely. The American Orthodox Catholic Church legally came into being in 1965. So it's two years after the
is a Ukrainian priest. He forms his own church as the American Orthodox Catholic Church in the Bronx.
but we eventually did. And we incorporated the autocephalist Slavonic Orthodox Church of North
get dressed in all this weird stuff, Orthodox stuff. See Catholic stuff, the Catholics had a
stranglehold on being Catholic, but in the Orthodox world, there's just hundreds of Orthodox churches
because they're national churches. So you have Greek Orthodox churches, Russian Orthodox, Serbian,
et cetera, et cetera. There was no Czechoslovak Orthodox church. So that was our background. So I said,
this is cool. We'll make a Czechoslovak Orthodox. It just fell into place. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
up to us and he says, Russian Orthodox representatives. And I say, no, Slavonic Orthodox representatives.
these bishops and clergy and other Orthodox bishops are there. So it's freaking us out. Right. But we're
the American Orthodox Catholic Church. The intelligence front.
States through the Orthodox churches. Keep an eye out. Mm.
researching the JFK assassination. And you had been a part of this American Orthodox Catholic
When we were researching for our cover story as Orthodox priests, we had a lot of friends
in the, in two different Orthodox churches. One was the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia.
Orthodox Church outside Russia. These were the Russian Orthodox who were anti-communist. They fled, uh,
Well, in the Orthodox church, it's almost the same, kind of similar. But there's a prayer and a gesture
and they got enough training to pass as Orthodox priests, but they didn't get everything quite
your, your, your experience in the, um, you know, Orthodox Catholic church, how you kind of bumped into
bizarre. You know, the Orthodox one is nicer. It's a crown, a real crown, you know, with jewels on it
church treated people for centuries. You know, the Orthodox churches included and the, and the,
the Orthodox church, the one that we started, my friend and I see, we started the church.
the Russian Orthodox church, the staff for the bishop is exactly that. Two serpents around a