Julian Joseph Overbeck

Convinced that both the papacy and Anglicanism were on the verge of collapse, Overbeck was received into the Orthodox Church at the Russian Embassy in London by Fr.

In 1867, Overbeck also began to publish The Orthodox Catholic Review, a journal for the advancement of Western Orthodoxy.

The next several years were spent with further developing the Western liturgies for administration of the other sacraments as well as the praying of the Divine Office.

Overbeck also continued to criticise Roman Catholics and Anglicans as well as those Western converts to Orthodoxy who used the Byzantine Rite.

[citation needed] By 1876, Overbeck began to make appeals to other Orthodox churches for their recognition of his scheme.