Ix BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 



linski was rector up to 1908, when he was succeeded by Rev. 

 M. J. Pidhorecky, the present incumbent. The church was 

 afterwards moved to East Seventh Street, between Second 

 and Third Avenues. This property was purchased for the 

 sum of $90,000, the entire transaction having been carried on 

 through Mr. Shipman. At the dedication of the new church in 

 East Seventh Street, October 22, 191 1, Mr. Shipman took an 

 active interest and prepared and pubHshed for use at the 

 dedication services his translation of "The Holy Mass Ac- 

 cording to the Greek Rite," a little book of forty-eight pages 

 in double columns, giving the original Slavic on one side and 

 }his English version on the other. It was the first time an 

 'English translation had ever been ma4^. 



In 1913 when the "United CathoHc Works," an association 

 for the closer organization and co-operation of all the Cath- 

 ^olic activities of the Diocese of New York, was established, 

 Mr. Shipman was chiefly instrumental in bringing the various 

 Greek Catholic Charitable organizations into the movement, 

 'and in this way demonstrating to his fellow-Catholics of the 

 Latin Rite the growth and zealous activities of their fellow- 

 Catholics of the Greek Rite. 



Unfortunately the line of racial demarcation only too easily 

 keeps people apart, who are fundamentally one in faith, though 

 divergent in customs. Mr. Shipman was diHgent in seeking 

 to bring his fellow-Catholics of both rites to a better under- 

 standing and appreciation of each other, and eagerly seized 

 the opportunity afforded by the United Catholic Works' move- 

 ment. He was equally solicitous in bringing about a better 

 understanding between the different Catholic nationalities of 

 the Greek Rite in the United States, who naturally clung to 

 their ancient European jealousies and divisions. It was his 

 constant advice to them to sink their differences and unite in 

 the broad and saner platform of their common faith and their 

 lAmerican citizenship. He realized fully that an immigrant 

 people could not tear up by the roots their racial traditions 

 md customs, nor did he wish them to do so, for through 

 :hose roots comes the nourishment of sturdy and substantial 

 virtues. Let them remain what they naturally are, for the 

 preservation of those virtues, but at the same time let them 

 assimilate gradually the civic elements and principles of their 

 lew allegiance in America. Mr. Shipman was a man of broad 



