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Category Orthodox History
Archbishop Ioasaph Skorodumov of Buenos Aires Argentina Paraguay by Michael Woerl
Biography of Vladika Ioasaph (Ivan Vassilievich Skorodumov), Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paraguay Archbishop Ioasaph was born on 14/26 January 1888 in the village of Rebovichi, Tikhvin county, Novgorod province (NW Russia, approximately 200 km. east of Saint Petersburg)…
How Akimov can Help You be Orthodox!
The arrested Akimov was imprisoned for two months, but without being interrogated. At the end of March, he was summoned unexpectedly. The interrogator posed the usual question to him: “You, of course, are aware of why you were arrested?”
What You Didn’t Know About the Attachment “Pilgrim” to Orthodox Names.
In older times, it was truly a great feat for someone to go to the Holy Lands from far away places like Russia and Greece. These pilgrimages were by foot and ship. It was considered a greater blessing to complete the entire pilgrimage by foot and not by ship.
Краткая история Истинно-Православной Церкви: 1927-2007 гг.
Истинно-Православная Церковь (другое ее название – Катакомбная Церковь) как ветвь Поместной Русской Церкви организационно начала свое формирование в кон. 20-х – нач. 30-х гг. ХХ в. Она образовалась в результате отказа большинства епископата и духовенства Русской Церкви от сотрудничества с коммунистическим богоборческим…
Taken Out to Graze in Other Pastures
Bishop Philaretos Depending on which local Church we are talking about, starting in about 1920 (here I choose to use the year that the infamous “Encyclical of 1920 of the Ecumenical Patriarchate” was written), the hierarchs who had the name…
Agreeing with the Holy Fathers or Not, According to Meletius Pigas Patriarch of Alexandria
Meletios Pigas was an amazing church personality of the 16th century. He was Patriarch of Alexandria (1590 – 1601) and was Locum Tenens of the Patriarchate of Constantinople for one year (April 1597 to April 1598). He was born to…
Why St. Nicholas the Tsar Could Be Called the Restorer of Orthodox Autocracy. Feast of the Royal Martyrs of Russia.
TSAR NICHOLAS II: RESTORER OF THE ORTHODOX AUTOCRACY By Dr. Vladimir Moss The title “Restorer of the Orthodox Autocracy” has been ascribed to Tsar Paul I, and not without reason. After the extreme westernization of the eighteenth-century Tsars, he began…
Three Historic Encyclicals and Confessions of Faith of the Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece 1935 – 1974
1935 PASTORAL ENCYCLICAL OF THE GENUINE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF GREECE Unjustly condemned by the schismatic synod to deposition and a five-year imprisonment in monasteries, and seized by force by the government (which has become the executory arm of the [New…