March 20, 2000
Source: The Plain Dealer
On March 20, 2000, The Plain Dealer reported that "more than 2,000 Eastern Orthodox Christians set aside ethnic and national differences yesterday to commemorate the annual Sunday of Orthodoxy with the Cleveland area's first unified Divine Liturgy in decades...These shared celebrations are viewed as an important step toward the dream of an independend church in the United States that would unify Greek, Romanina, Russina, Antiochian, Albanian and other Orthodox Christians under one administration." Unity would potentially strengthen the Orthodox voice in the public arena, although it could conceivably weaken ties to ancestral homelands.