Samuel Noble
The image of the churches harmoniously fitting together as the parts of the body whose sole head is Christ is a key image for Peter’s ecclesiology.
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Simeon of Polotsk was a Belarusian and Russian Church and public figure, poet, thinker, and preacher.
It’s noted that such depictions are also found in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
The Georgian text contains Gospel pericopes and two ascetical works—the Sayings of Abba Poemen, and the Letter of Arsenios.
The digitalization project was the joint effort of the OCA, the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral in New York, and the New York Public Library.
Papyrologists have deciphered a manuscript fragment that went unnoticed for decades in a German university library.
Simon Scionka
When they became Orthodox it was real for them. It was not forced, it made sense to them. As a people, they pass it down from generation to generation and continue to do so now.
Fort Ross, located on the Sonoma County Coast of Northern California, is a historical site dear to Russian immigrants, and fascinating to all visitors.
What about a church like Antioch, which is older than Constantinople itself? Why do they receive chrism from the EP? When did this start, and is there any good reason today why Antioch shouldn’t resume consecrating chrism for itself?
According to the diocesan report, “This vote has the potential to label the entire Serbian nation as genocidal, undermining the tremendous suffering of the Serbian people during the war.”
Archpriest Maxim Nikolsky
He had knowledge, wisdom, and love. He spoke directly, like a close friend and a father.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
In the great images of the Holy Week services, the horror of man’s sin and the suffering of the Creator leading to the great triumph of the resurrection, I suddenly discovered that eternal, indestructible beginning, which was also in that temporarily quiet spring, hiding in itself the seed of a total renewal of all that lives.
Matthew Hartley
On Monday of Holy Week the Church commemorates the holy Patriarch Joseph of Egypt. His story is one of the most familiar and beloved in the entire Old Testament.
Irina Dmitrieva
Jericho has a glorious history. We read in the Old Testament that it was the first city captured by the Israelites led by Joshua on entering the Promised Land.
Elena Butarova
It would seem that a Greek could hardly understand the difficulties of a foreign country such as Russia. But great are the works of the Lord; not only did Metropolitan Theognost understand all the subtleties of Russia’s state of affairs, he sincerely accepted this country as his own, devoting the rest of his life to his new homeland.
Six years of archaeology work on the Scottish island of Lismore have yielded exciting results.
Professor Darina Grigorova
The European resolution, through the image of its enemy—Russia in this case—is trying to introduce censorship on the freedom of historical perspective.
On March 24, 1999, NATO began its aerial bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, which continued until June 10, 1999.
From the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th, when clergy and hierarchs of the Russian Church were sent to the North American Mission they were provided with Holy Chrism from Russia sufficient for pastoral needs.