On second thought

Is Eugene Rose (Fr.Seraphim) known in USA? One Russian Orthodox woman living in California says it grows there, but maybe she sees what she wants to see. I also thought that O.C. in America were something like Papuans in Russia, and if articles appear in big newspapers they must be most likely written by emigrants who mix their political views with the church, because simply about church it will be not interesting to publish. Hardly anyone would verify if what that woman-historian wrote in her article was true, maybe she distorted quotes, used wrong sourses or used rumours circling at her parish, and it forms not positive opinions, but maybe noone reading that That woman from California said that exhibitions of orthodox art are always sold out, that americans are very much interested in orthodox spiritual music and icons, and she seen many children there coming with parents.

Fr. Seraphim Rose is known in the USA, yes. He's not an uncontroversial figure by any means, but he is definitely known. Richard

One other thought concerning this--I know nobody's reading this anymore, but this sticks in my craw. As long as the Church Abroad existed as an independent entity, it implicitly challenged the authority of Moscow to speak for the Russian Church. It consistently denounced the collaboration of the church with the Communist Party, called for a more positive valuation of Russia's prerevolutionary and anticommunist past and served as a hopeful beacon to Orthodox Christians in Russia seeking an alternative. This whole paragraph comes across as wildly ignorant of Orthodox ecclesiology. Either the Church is one or she is not; if she is, then schisms are to be healed, not maintained for political advantage. Orthodoxy always hearkens back to a day when one didn't have the option of going church-shopping; it seems disingenuous to argue that healing a schism is a bad thing because it robs one of the present-day option (real, perceived, or otherwise) to do so. Richard