In his research, author Dr. Scott Kenworthy consulted a wealth of previously unused and inaccessible primary sources, including St. Tikhon’s letters and encyclicals, documents from the Soviet leadership and secret police files, and materials from a dozen archives in five countries in order to deliver a comprehensive examination of this pivotal era in North American and Russian Orthodox Christianity and St. Tikhon’s tremendous influence on it.
Tens of thousands of faithful Orthodox Christians filled the streets of Tbilisi and 10 other Georgian cities on Saturday, May 17, in honor of Family Purity Day.
The central administration of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Kiev Metropolia, led by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, is the first specific target of the state’s ongoing campaign against the Church.
The holy habitation, founded in the mid-17th century, was closed by the communist authorities in 1959. It was revived in 1990.
The idea of building a church to meet the spiritual needs of the significant number of Russian emigrants who lived in Meudon at that time was formed in 1924. And on March 25, 1925, Fr. Alexander Kalashnikov, the rector of the house chapel of the Trubetskoy princes in Clamart, celebrated the first Liturgy.