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'''ASDamick''' has retired indefinitely from active participation on OrthodoxWiki.  Thanks for a great time!
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<div class="boilerplate" id="stub" style="margin: 0 auto; text-align: center; background: #EEEEEE; padding: 0 10px; border: 1px solid #CCC; width: 60%; align: center">'''Fr. Andrew''' is currently in semi-retirement from OrthodoxWiki, so he may only be sporadically available and generally fairly inactivePlease remember him in your prayers.</div>
  
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[[Image:Andrew_Stephen_Damick.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Fr. Andrew, pedantic seminarian]]
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My name is [[priest|Fr.]] '''Andrew Stephen Damick''', and I'm an [[Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America|Antiochian]] [[seminary|seminarian]] studying at [[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)]], working on an M.Div. degree, preparing for [[ordination]] to the [[priest|priesthood]].  I was ordained to the diaconate on [[October 30]], 2005, by Bp. [[Thomas (Joseph) of Oakland]] ([http://www.flickr.com/photos/asdamick/sets/1260314/ photos here]).  I was ordained to the holy priesthood on [[October 29]], 2006, at [http://www.allsaintsnc.org/ All Saints Orthodox Church] in Raleigh, NC, by Bp. [[Antoun (Khouri) of Miami]] ([http://www.flickr.com/photos/asdamick/sets/72157594360027980/ photos here]).
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I previously earned my B.A. in English Language and Literature and minors in Ancient Greek, Religious Studies, and Classical Studies from North Carolina State University, graduating in 2001.
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I have a wide range of interests in various religious fields, especially regarding [[Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]], [[Byzantine Chant]], [[:Category:Church History|Church History]], and [[:Category:Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Saints|Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Saints]].  One of my major areas of research and interest is [[Orthodoxy in America]], and I like writing articles in that area about things that I wish other people had written articles about.  I'm also keenly interested in comparative religion, linguistics, etymology, English literature, and ancient languages.
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I was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1975 and currently live in Simpson, Pennsylvania with my wife [[Shamassy]] Nicole.  We're expecting our first child around [[Holy Week]] of 2007.
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I'm a Southerner by birth and at heart, though I do wish there were more proper bakeries south of the Mason-Dixon Line.  That's possibly one of the major things Yankees have gotten right.  (They tend to do autumn fairly splendidly, too, though the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia can give 'em all a run for their money.)
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[[Image:Orthodox America flag.gif|200px|right|Orthodoxy in America]]
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I additionally serve as one of OrthodoxWiki's lowly [[Special:Listadmins|sysops]], and I've been editing on OrthodoxWiki since [[December 17]], 2004, being the 10th user account created here.  If you have a question or comment or want to reply to a message I left for you, leave it on my [[User talk:ASDamick|Talk page]] (I might not see it if you leave it somewhere else).  I'm often the current editor-de-facto of the [[:Category:Featured Articles|Featured article]] section on OrthodoxWiki, so if you'd like to see an article featured on the [[Main Page]], let me know or comment in the Featured Articles [[Category talk:Featured Articles|Talk page]].
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==Items of note==
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[[Image:Icon studio.jpg|right|250px|Two icons, one finished, the other in process]]
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*As of [[August 17]], 2006, at 4:40pm (EDT), I had '''[[User:ASDamick/counter.js|9,108 edits]]''' (not counting [[User:ByzBot|my bot]]) on OrthodoxWiki.  (If you want to know your own or anyone else's edit count, read instructions [[User:ASDamick/Counter|here]].)  As far as I can tell, I'm currently in the lead.  I'm hoping I hit 10,000 first.  (There's probably no prize, though.)
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*I'm occasionally curmudgeonly, but don't usually mean to be.  The other drawback is that my indexing system probably won't make sense to you.  It makes total sense to me, though, I swear.  I also can't help but think in complete sentences, which can actually be rather debilitating at times.
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*If you think I'm following you around on OrthodoxWiki (i.e., you notice I'm adding edits to articles shortly after you do), it's mainly because I keep my eye on [[Special:Recentchanges]] and notice what's seeing action.  I can't help putting my oar in, as my grandmother used to say.
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*I'm very much prone to asking the question, "Do we really need an article on [X] on OrthodoxWiki?"  Unless we have something original, useful and substantial to offer, my view is that the wiki should be kept as small as possible.  Running a tight ship helps to ensure that we remain on course.
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*I like taking photographs, and you can see my work on OrthodoxWiki in the [[:Category:Damick Images|Damick Images category]].
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*Although I am an administrator on OrthodoxWiki, I'm really more interested in working on content than in administrative stuff.
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==External links==
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*My personal page (including weblog):  [http://www.chrysostom.org/andrew/ Andrew Stephen Damick]
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*My book of poetry:  [http://www.chrysostom.org/andrew/book/ ''Songs of Time and Season''] (ISBN 1-4116-0596-9)
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*My Flickr photography site:  [http://www.flickr.com/photos/asdamick/ Andrew's photos]
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*My site about St. [[John Chrysostom]]:  [http://www.chrysostom.org/ The Saint John Chrysostom Webpage]
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==Internal links==
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* [[OrthodoxWiki:Administrators]]
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* [[OrthodoxWiki:News]]
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* [[Help:Editing]]
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* [[Special:Listusers]]
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* [[Special:Newpages]]
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* [[Special:Recentchanges]]
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* [[Special:Specialpages]]
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* [[User:ASDamick/Sandbox|Secret Wiki-Lab]]
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* [[User:ByzBot|ByzBot]], my pet wiki-bot
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* [[OrthodoxWiki:Articles from the DEC]]
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==To-do list==
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*[[Differences between Greek and Russian liturgics]]
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*[[OrthodoxWiki:Articles from the DEC]]
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*[[Orthodoxy in Great Britain and Ireland]]
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*[[Orthodoxy in Western Europe]]
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*[[Prerogatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate]]
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*[[OrthodoxWiki:Differences with Wikipedia]]
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*[[OrthodoxWiki:Frequently Asked Questions]]
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==Articles==
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Articles on OrthodoxWiki that I've created, imported, or to which I feel I've contributed significant content include:
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===Encyclopedic entries===
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*[[Abgar]]
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*[[Abouna]]
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*[[Adam and Eve]]
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*[[Addai]]
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*[[Aftimios Ofiesh]]
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*[[Agnoetai]]
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*[[Aidan of Lindisfarne]]
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*[[Ainoi]]
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*[[Akathist]]
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*[[Akedia]]
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*[[Alban]]
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*[[Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America]]
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*[[Alexander Schmemann]]
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*[[American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese]]
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*[[American Orthodox Catholic Church]]
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*[[Anastasios (Yannoulatos) of Albania]]
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*[[Andrew Phillips]]
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*[[Annunciation]]
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*[[Ansgar]]
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*[[Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh]]
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*[[Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America]]
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*[[Antoun (Khouri) of Miami]]
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*[[Apostles]]
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*[[Apostolic Fathers]]
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*[[Archimandrite]]
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*[[Archons]]
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*[[Archpriest]]
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*[[Ascension]]
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*[[Augustine of Hippo]]
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*[[Autocephaly]]
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*[[Autonomy]]
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*[[Auxiliary bishop]]
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*[[Bartholomew I (Archontonis) of Constantinople]]
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*[[Basil (Essey) of Wichita]]
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*[[Basil (Osborne) of Amphipolis]]
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*[[Bede]]
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*[[Belarusian Council of Orthodox Churches in North America]]
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*[[Bibliography of Orthodoxy in America]]
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*[[Bulgarian Diocese in Exile]]
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*[[Byzantine Chant]]
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*[[Byzantine Notation]]
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*[[Byzantine response to OCA autocephaly]]
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*[[Caedmon]]
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*[[Canonical release]]
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*[[Cantor]]
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*[[Catechumen]]
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*[[Cathach of St. Columba]]
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*[[Church Calendar]]
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*[[Church Fathers]]
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*[[Church Music]]
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*[[Church of Alexandria]]
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*[[Church of Antioch]]
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*[[Church of Constantinople]]
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*[[Church of Estonia]]
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*[[Church of Finland]]
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*[[Church of Japan]]
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*[[Church of Jerusalem]]
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*[[Church of Romania]]
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*[[Church of Rome]]
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*[[Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Jerusalem)]]
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*[[Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem)]]
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*[[Church of Ukraine]]
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*[[Columba of Iona]]
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*[[Cornelius (Rodousakis) of Petra]]
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*[[David of Wales]]
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*[[Diocese]]
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*[[Diocese of Korsun]]
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*[[Diocese of Sourozh]]
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*[[Dormition]]
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*[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]
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*[[Ecclesiology]]
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*[[Ecthesis]]
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*[[Ecumenical Councils]]
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*[[Ecumenical Patriarchate in America]]
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*[[Ecumenism]]
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*[[Eighth Ecumenical Council]]
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*[[Elevation of the Holy Cross]]
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*[[Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs]]
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*[[Entrance of the Mother of God into the Temple Skete (Hayesville, Ohio)]]
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*[[Epigonation]]
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*[[Episcopi vagantes]]
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*[[Exarch of the Holy Sepulchre]]
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*[[Feminism in the Orthodox Church]]
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*[[Filioque]]
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*[[First Ecumenical Council]]
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*[[Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona]]
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*[[Full communion]]
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*[[Gabriel (de Vylder) of Komana]]
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*[[Gospel]]
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*[[Great Feasts]]
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*[[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]]
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*[[Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in North and South America]]
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*[[Gregory Palamas]]
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*[[Hagiography]]
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*[[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)]]
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*[[Harold of England]]
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*[[Herman (Swaiko) of Washington and New York]]
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*[[Hermeneutics]]
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*[[Hesychasm]]
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*[[Hesychastarion]]
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*[[Heterodoxy]]
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*[[Hilda of Whitby]]
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*[[History of Antiochian Orthodoxy in Australasia]]
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*[[Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (Brookline, Massachusetts)]]
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*[[Holy Scripture]]
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*[[Holy Synod]]
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*[[Iakovos (Coucouzis) of America]]
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*[[Iconography]]
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*[[Ignatius IV (Hazim) of Antioch]]
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*[[Ignatius of Antioch]]
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*[[Independent Orthodox churches]]
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*[[Innocent of Alaska]]
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*[[Introduction to Orthodox Christianity]]
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*[[Iona]]
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*[[Irenaeus of Lyons]]
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*[[Irenaios I (Skopelitis) of Jerusalem]]
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*[[Isidore of Pelusium]]
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*[[Jesus Christ]]
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*[[Jesus Prayer]]
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*[[John Chrysostom]]
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*[[John I of Antioch]]
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*[[Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia]]
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*[[Ligonier Meeting]]
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*[[Lindisfarne]]
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*[[Lindisfarne Gospels]]
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*[[List of American bishops]]
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*[[List of American saints]]
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*[[List of American writers]]
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*[[List of Archbishops of Athens]]
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*[[List of autocephalous and autonomous Churches]]
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*[[Liturgical objects]]
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*[[Living Church]]
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*[[Local church]]
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*[[Locum tenens]]
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*[[Macedonian Orthodox Church]]
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*[[Makary (Ilyinsky) of New York]]
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*[[Marcion]]
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*[[Mark of Ephesus]]
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*[[Maron of Syria]]
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*[[Martyr]]
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*[[Maximus the Confessor]]
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*[[Metochion]]
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*[[Metropolia]]
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*[[Monasticism]]
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*[[Monk]]
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*[[Mount Athos]]
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*[[Nativity]]
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*[[Nativity of the Theotokos]]
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*[[Nazarite]]
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*[[New Calendar]]
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*[[New Martyrs]]
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*[[Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed]]
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*[[Ninth Ecumenical Council]]
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*[[Oikonomia]]
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*[[Olaf of Norway]]
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*[[Old Believers]]
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*[[Old Calendarists]]
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*[[Oriental Orthodox]]
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*[[Orthodox Church]]
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*[[Orthodox Church in America]]
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*[[Orthodox Church of France]]
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*[[Orthodox Inter-Seminary Movement]]
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*[[Orthodoxy in America]]
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*[[Oswald of Northumbria]]
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*[[Palm Sunday]]
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*[[Pascha]]
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*[[Paschal greeting]]
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*[[Paschal Homily]]
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*[[Passion-bearer]]
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*[[Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe]]
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*[[Patriarchate]]
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*[[Pentarchy]]
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*[[Pentecost]]
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*[[Petros VII (Papapetrou) of Alexandria]]
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*[[Philip (Saliba) of New York]]
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*[[Platon (Rozhdestvensky) of New York]]
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*[[Polycarp of Smyrna]]
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*[[Praxis]]
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*[[Prerogatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate]]
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*[[Presbeia]]
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*[[Presbyter]]
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*[[Presentation]]
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*[[Presentation of the Theotokos]]
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*[[Prophecy of St. Nilus]]
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*[[Prosphora]]
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*[[Raphael of Brooklyn]]
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*[[Reader]]
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*[[Revised Julian Calendar]]
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*[[Robber Council of 869-870]]
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*[[ROCOR and OCA]]
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*[[Russian Exarchate of North America]]
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*[[Russian Orthodox Church in Exile]]
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*[[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]]
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*[[Russification]]
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*[[Saint]]
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*[[Saint commemorations]]
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*[[Saint titles]]
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*[[Septuagint]]
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*[[Seraphim Rose]]
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*[[Sergius I (Stragorodsky) of Moscow]]
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*[[Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas]]
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*[[Stavropegial]]
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*[[St. Basil's Cathedral (Moscow)]]
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*[[St. Catherine's Monastery (Sinai)]]
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*[[St. Edward the Martyr Orthodox Brotherhood (Surrey, England)]]
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*[[St. Gregory Palamas Monastery (Hayesville, Ohio)]]
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*[[St. Paul Skete (Grand Junction, Tennessee)]]
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*[[St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (Paris, France)]]
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*[[St. Theodore House (Galion, Ohio)]]
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*[[St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery (South Canaan, Pennsylvania)]]
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*[[St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (Crestwood, New York)]]
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*[[Stephen (Dzubay) of Pittsburgh]]
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*[[Synod of Whitby]]
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*[[The Way of a Pilgrim]]
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*[[Theodora (wife of Justinian)]]
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*[[Theodosios Atallah (Hanna)]]
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*[[Theophany]]
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*[[Theophilus III (Giannopoulos) of Jerusalem]]
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*[[Theotokos]]
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*[[Thomas (Joseph) of Oakland]]
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*[[Timeline of Church History]]
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*[[Timeline of Orthodoxy in America]]
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*[[Transfiguration]]
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*[[Typos]]
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*[[Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA]]
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*[[Western Rite]]
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*[[Western Rite Vicariate]]
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*[[Whitby Abbey]]
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*[[Wulfila]]
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*[[Template:orientalchurches]]
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*[[Template:orthodoxize]]
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*[[Template:orthodoxyinamerica]]
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*[[Template:reorg]]
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*[[Template:spirituality]]
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*[[Template:userbox admin]]
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===Articles about OrthodoxWiki===
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*[[Main Page]]
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*[[OrthodoxWiki:Copyrights]]
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*[[OrthodoxWiki:News]]
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*[[OrthodoxWiki:Style Manual]]
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*[[OrthodoxWiki:Welcome]]
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*[[OrthodoxWiki:Templates]]
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*[[Help:Contents]]
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*[[Help:How to create a new page]]
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*[[Help:How to write a great article]]
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*[[Help:Image licenses]]
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*[[Help:Stub]]
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Revision as of 20:21, November 29, 2006

Fr. Andrew is currently in semi-retirement from OrthodoxWiki, so he may only be sporadically available and generally fairly inactive. Please remember him in your prayers.
Fr. Andrew, pedantic seminarian

My name is Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, and I'm an Antiochian seminarian studying at St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary (South Canaan, Pennsylvania), working on an M.Div. degree, preparing for ordination to the priesthood. I was ordained to the diaconate on October 30, 2005, by Bp. Thomas (Joseph) of Oakland (photos here). I was ordained to the holy priesthood on October 29, 2006, at All Saints Orthodox Church in Raleigh, NC, by Bp. Antoun (Khouri) of Miami (photos here).

I previously earned my B.A. in English Language and Literature and minors in Ancient Greek, Religious Studies, and Classical Studies from North Carolina State University, graduating in 2001.

I have a wide range of interests in various religious fields, especially regarding Orthodox Christianity, Byzantine Chant, Church History, and Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Saints. One of my major areas of research and interest is Orthodoxy in America, and I like writing articles in that area about things that I wish other people had written articles about. I'm also keenly interested in comparative religion, linguistics, etymology, English literature, and ancient languages.

I was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1975 and currently live in Simpson, Pennsylvania with my wife Shamassy Nicole. We're expecting our first child around Holy Week of 2007.

SealLogo2.gif This user is an active sysop on OrthodoxWiki. Feel free to ask for help.


I'm a Southerner by birth and at heart, though I do wish there were more proper bakeries south of the Mason-Dixon Line. That's possibly one of the major things Yankees have gotten right. (They tend to do autumn fairly splendidly, too, though the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia can give 'em all a run for their money.)

Orthodoxy in America

I additionally serve as one of OrthodoxWiki's lowly sysops, and I've been editing on OrthodoxWiki since December 17, 2004, being the 10th user account created here. If you have a question or comment or want to reply to a message I left for you, leave it on my Talk page (I might not see it if you leave it somewhere else). I'm often the current editor-de-facto of the Featured article section on OrthodoxWiki, so if you'd like to see an article featured on the Main Page, let me know or comment in the Featured Articles Talk page.

Items of note

Two icons, one finished, the other in process
  • As of August 17, 2006, at 4:40pm (EDT), I had 9,108 edits (not counting my bot) on OrthodoxWiki. (If you want to know your own or anyone else's edit count, read instructions here.) As far as I can tell, I'm currently in the lead. I'm hoping I hit 10,000 first. (There's probably no prize, though.)
  • I'm occasionally curmudgeonly, but don't usually mean to be. The other drawback is that my indexing system probably won't make sense to you. It makes total sense to me, though, I swear. I also can't help but think in complete sentences, which can actually be rather debilitating at times.
  • If you think I'm following you around on OrthodoxWiki (i.e., you notice I'm adding edits to articles shortly after you do), it's mainly because I keep my eye on Special:Recentchanges and notice what's seeing action. I can't help putting my oar in, as my grandmother used to say.
  • I'm very much prone to asking the question, "Do we really need an article on [X] on OrthodoxWiki?" Unless we have something original, useful and substantial to offer, my view is that the wiki should be kept as small as possible. Running a tight ship helps to ensure that we remain on course.
  • I like taking photographs, and you can see my work on OrthodoxWiki in the Damick Images category.
  • Although I am an administrator on OrthodoxWiki, I'm really more interested in working on content than in administrative stuff.

External links

Internal links

To-do list

Articles

I hereby reissue all of my edits before November 22, 2005, under both the GNU Free Documentation License as well as the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (version 2.5 or later), unless explicitly noted otherwise, in conformity with the revised OrthodoxWiki default copyright policy.

Articles on OrthodoxWiki that I've created, imported, or to which I feel I've contributed significant content include:

Encyclopedic entries

Templates

Articles about OrthodoxWiki