"Dog collars and spanky clean shaven faces to "disguise" the origin, I guess " is passing for white" Anglo-Saxon and not sticking out in a crowd."
LOL!!! Not our priests. Both are fully beared and wear their rasos and clerical headgear. There's never a question around here who the Orthodox priests are. They receive great respect on the streets by everyone. One buddy of mine, a Roman priest, tells me he envies them. The fact that my spiritual father is 6'5" in his stocking feet doesn't hurt. With his kalimavki on he looks 7' tall!
When I was a child, I was so terrified of our priest, I kept calling him "Good god, good god!" He just looked like soemthing from a fairytale.