St. Michael Church

Uniates from modern day Slovakia organized the Greek Catholic Church of St. Michael in 1900-1901.  After the death of their initial priest, and encouraged by ongoing discrimination from the local Roman Catholic hierarch, the Pueblo Uniates petitioned Bishop TIKHON of San Francisco (Saint Tikhon) to receive them into Orthodox Church in 1903.  Saint Michael’s received its first, full-time pastor, Rev. Vladimir Kalneff, in 1905.  That year also witnessed a visit from Bishop TIKHON, who was jubilant...