Olga Rozhneva
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 17
They were God’s chosen ones. To die for Christ is an honor that must be earned.
Vitaly Chekhranov
Rating: 10|Votes: 10
This was the most difficult Pascha of the four that I had celebrated during my imprisonment from 1923 to 1926.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 20
This letter should become a classic of Orthodox writing and witness to the faith that sustained so many and is today being resurrected in so many places. The triumph of the Resurrection so transcends his prison cell it’s a wonder that the walls remained.
Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin
The main theological dispute in sixth and seventh-century Ireland was the controversy over the correct date for Pascha.
Dmitry Mikhailov
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 26
When the Church of the Theophany, the last Orthodox church in Vyshny Volochek was shut down, this was the house where the parishioners held secret worship services. When the owners of the house were arrested and all their relatives and friends, stricken by fear, turned their backs on the “children of the enemies of the state”, this house witnessed another act of courage as the children were saved by selfless people who became their guardians.
Olga Orlova
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
ew of us can imagine what it was like during the transition period from soviet times into our own times in Russia to begin the herculean task of restoring the desecrated churches. These reminiscences paint a fragment of this picture in describing the life of one true man of God in Moscow, Archpriest Alexei Zotov.
Nun Cornelia (Rees)
Rating: 10|Votes: 53
After a number of media, mostly tabloid, picked up a story that President Putin supposedly equated communism with Christianity and Lenin’s embalmed but nevertheless decomposing remains with holy Christian relics, I was hoping to see an article somewhere discussing this sanely in either Russian or in English.
Nicholai Bulchuk, Andrei Kotov
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 28
Only a handful of specialists now know about a liturgical rite called “the Furnace Act” practiced in Russia from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and mentioned as early as the tenth century in Byzantium. It was a rite that was celebrated on the great feasts. With this rite also began the forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.
Vasiliy Shchipkov
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 21
In this article, Vasiliy Shchipkov, who holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, discusses the Christian approach to remembering the terrible time of Soviet repressions vs. a mentality of retribution.
Vladimir Basenkov
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 38
We decided to ask a few questions to simple lay Old Believers about the way of life in their “little church” today.
Anna Vedyayeva
Rating: 10|Votes: 42
The life of Olga Alexandrovna Romanov, the last Grand Duchess of Russia, was filled with such numerous sorrows as rarely befall a person in a lifetime. But through her kindness, modesty and courage she withstood all the miseries that lay in store for her in the twentieth century.
Protopresbyter-Stavrophore Srboljub Miletic
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 34
What is the difference in the understanding of the Church and the Church affiliation between Orthodox and Roman Catholics? For other “Christians”, there is no clear and consistent teaching about it, so we will consider this particular difference, in hopes that the understanding of it will also make the other differences clearer.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 11
In 2017, we mark the centennial anniversary of the tumultuous events that would radically alter the historical course of the Orthodox Church throughout the world, particularly in Russia and North America. The main cataclysmic event that precipitated these changes was the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in late 1917.
St. Hilarion (Troitsky)
Rating: 10|Votes: 8
In honor of today's celebration of the centenary of the enthronement of St. Tikhon (Bellavin) as the first occupant of the renewed Russian patriarchal throne, we offer here the speech of Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitksy), given October 23, 1917 at the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, in which he passionately argued for the restoration of the patriarchate to the Russian Orthodox Church, detailing the history and development of Church administration to make his case.
Archpriest Andrew Phillips
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 29
Since this sensitive soul could not accept the lie of Uniatism, in 1905 and 1906 Alexander visited the Lavras in Kiev and Pochaiev, where he met both the elderly Metropolitan of Kiev, Flavian, and the dynamic Archbishop Antony (Khrapovitsky), who was to play a vital role in Fr. Alexis’ later life.
Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 29
This sermon was delivered by Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) of blessed memory, later first hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, in the cathedral of Zhitomir, Ukraine, on April 20, 1903.
Kristin Romey
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 12
Construction materials date to Roman times, suggesting the original holy site's legacy has survived despite its destruction 1,000 years ago.
Fr. Joseph Farooq
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 35
The city of Lahore received this man who would later sacrifice his life along with his family to save holy Russia. He was visiting India in 1891, when he was a still a prince, and it was at that time that he made up his mind to see Lahore.
Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov)
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 30
The journalist asks rather provocative and uninformed questions about the Church’s past and present relationship with the Soviet and Russian governments, and Bishop Tikhon provides his views on the complex subject of “Sergianism”, dissidents, and the Church in Russian society today. Although the liberal journalist and the bishop generally aren’t on the same intellectual page, this interview reveals what the Church in Russia now faces—no longer from the communist but now from the liberal press.
Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia
In honor of the centenary of the glorious event of the restoration of the patriarchate to the Russian Orthodox Church at the Local Council of 1917-1918, OrthoChristian.com takes a look back at the words of His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the same event.
