Father Timothy Sawchak Oral History
Title
Father Timothy Sawchak Oral History
Subject
Orthodox Church in America
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church (Overland Park, KS)
Conversion in the Midwest
Church structure
Religious authority
Description
Oral history with Father Timothy Sawchak conducted by Lev Smyth in Overland Park, Kansas on March 23rd, 2018. This interview is conducted with Father Tim, the priest of Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, an OCA (Orthodox Church in America) Church in Overland Park, Kansas. Father Tim discusses the unique qualities of the Orthodox Church in America, how the Orthodox Church in America differs from some ethnically-rooted branches of Orthodoxy, and how it relates to conversions to Eastern Orthodoxy in the Midwest. This interview was conducted for the Religion in Kansas Project as part of semester-long internship with the University of Kansas Department of Religious Studies.
Source
Religion in Kansas Project
Publisher
Department of Religious Studies, University of Kansas
Date
March 23, 2018
Contributor
Oral histories created by University of Kansas students, staff and faculty as part of the Religion in Kansas Project are archived in KU ScholarWorks, the digital repository of the University of Kansas.
Rights
All oral histories in the Religion in Kansas Project are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License.
Format
Interview
Language
eng
Type
Recording, oral
Identifier
Timothy_Swachak-Interview_1.m4a
Interviewer
Lev Smyth
Interviewee
Father Timothy Sawchak
Transcription
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/26836
Original Format
m4a
Duration
27:31:00
Collection
Citation
“Father Timothy Sawchak Oral History,” Religion in Kansas Project, accessed December 10, 2019, https://ksreligion.omeka.net/items/show/4389.