The Official Website of the RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
The Official Website of the RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
On Sunday, November 3/16, 2025, the layman Marco Mannino Giorgi was tonsured a reader, before being ordained a sub-deacon, and finally ordained a deacon by the hand of Bishop Philaretos of Pallini and Western Europe during the celebration of the…
On November 2/15, 2025, the servant of God, Finlay was received into the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, through holy baptism at the Parish of St. Michael the Archangel in Guildford, Surrey, England The baptism was celebrated by the…
By Hieromonk Tikhon Sometimes God invites us to a spiritual banquet to bestow upon us abundant spiritual riches. Not because we deserve it, but because He is good, loves us, and wills for us to enjoy His own goodness. We…
In an age of spiritual confusion, when the saving path of the Holy Fathers is often obscured by the fog of the West and ecumenism, the Lord raises up for us clear beacons of True Orthodoxy to guide our steps.…
On Thursday, September 12/25, 2025, one of our True Orthodox priests in Ukraine, Priest Oleksiy Lyuboshets, from the Cathedral of St. John of Kronstadt in Odessa, was kidnapped off the street. He was taken against his will and is being…
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the…
On Thursday, the 29th of August/11th of September, 2025, on the feast of the Beheading of the Holy Foreunner and Baptist John, the Protopresbyter Victor Melehov and the Presbytera Lucia were tonsured as monastics in Dmitrov, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The…
It is a rare and joyous occasion when a genuine treasure of our Orthodox Faith is brought out of obscurity and made available to the faithful. Today, we are thrilled to announce just such an event: the first-ever English publication…
It is with joy that we share something new with you today—a spiritual treasure that we hope will be a source of encouragement for us all. Many of us are familiar with the great saints of the Orthodox Church, but…
“It is well to reverence both God and the bishop. He who honours the bishop has been honoured by God.”(St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrnaeans, Ch. 9) “For the priestly office is indeed discharged on earth, but it…