8/15/2011
Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin
Bogomil preachers believed that social inequality was evil, and in this respect their belief was the precursor of Communist and Anarchist ideologies, including Tolstoysim.
The supreme judicial authority in every autocephalous Church is carried out absolutely independently, with decisions that are final and not subject to any review other than of an Ecumenical Council.
Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Diocesan Court, commented on the court’s decision in the case of Protodeacon Andrei Kurayev, who was banned from serving as a cleric of the Moscow City Diocese. This interview also sheds light on the process of an ecclesiastical court in general.
The political and national catastrophe that had befallen Ireland didn’t strangle it spiritually. Its missionaries’ religious zeal of didn’t fade away, and the country continued to produce saints.
The fifteen hundred year history of the Hagia Sophia has recently seen the beginning of a new era. In the distant past the conversion of it from an Orthodox cathedral into a mosque also coincided with the beginning of a new era.
Pravoslavie.ru published a fragment from the relatively new book of Church historian and canonist Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin “History of Pre-Christian and Christian Europe”.
The heads of Local Churches, no matter what place they occupy in the diptychs, are equal in powers, and a certain position in the diptychs, including the first of them, refers to honor, not to power. Moreover, sacramentally speaking, not only the Primates of Local Churches, but all Bishops in general, even those with a significant difference in their administrative status, are equal.
We have talked with Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin, Ph.D in Church History, Ph.D in theology, Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy and the Sretensky Theological Seminary, about the position of the Church on capital punishment past and present.
No sin is left without retribution. Let’s look at the end of the lives of the direct political assassins of the Royal Passion-Bearers.
Rating: 9.3|Votes: 30
The period between the fifth and the eighth centuries was called “the age of saints” in Wales.
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The main theological dispute in sixth and seventh-century Ireland was the controversy over the correct date for Pascha.
Out of all the saints who lived during the epoch of Christianization of the Roman Empire from the fourth to sixth centuries, the name Constantine is one of the most well known and venerated in Russia, surpassed only by Saints Nicholas of Myra and Lycea, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom.
Rating: 7.1|Votes: 21
In our times, the most painful thorn in the relationship between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches, preventing them from developing closer ties, is the Uniate factor.
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Having cast out the unclean spirit from the demon-possessed youth, the Lord said to His disciples who had tried before Him to heal the unfortunate one but couldn’t: This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting (Mt. 17:21), by this setting forth fasting as a means of spiritual warfare on the same level as prayer.
Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin, researcher and author of numerous works on canon law and Church history, comments on the inordinate reaction to Russian legislation against offending people’s religious sensibilities.
The theory of "Pentarchy", deprived of both canonical and historical foundations, provided consequentially false pretexts for the defense of hegemony of Grecophone Churches over the non-Greek Orthodox Churches. The tendency expressed in this theory, as strange as it might seem, turns up from time to time in the modern era.
