Father Timothy Sawchak Oral History

Father Timothy Sawchak Oral History

Orthodox Church in America

Holy Trinity Orthodox Church (Overland Park, KS)

Conversion in the Midwest

Church structure

Religious authority

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.

Religion in Kansas Project

Department of Religious Studies, University of Kansas

March 23, 2018

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Interview

eng

Recording, oral

Timothy_Swachak-Interview_1.m4a

Lev Smyth

Father Timothy Sawchak

https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/26836

m4a

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