UNESCO adds Byzantine Chludov Psalter to Memory of the World Register (+VIDEO)

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Churches and Monasteries

UNESCO adds Byzantine Chludov Psalter to Memory of the World Register (+VIDEO)

Created between 843 and 867 AD, the Chludov Psalter is one of only three surviving early monuments of Byzantine art from this period.

Schismatics encroach on Polish Church territory again, violating their own tomos

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Churches and Monasteries

Schismatics encroach on Polish Church territory again, violating their own tomos

The schismatics served in Warsaw without the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa, primate of the Polish Orthodox Church, who, together with the whole of his Local Church, doesn’t recognize the OCU or the ordinations of its clerics.

Ukrainian court rules in favor of Church in Elets Monastery dispute

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Churches and Monasteries

Ukrainian court rules in favor of Church in Elets Monastery dispute

A Ukrainian commercial court has rejected a lawsuit by the Ancient Chernigov National Architectural and Historical Preserve that sought to evict the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) from the historic Elets Monastery complex in Chernigov.

First hierarchical Liturgy in 100 years celebrated at historic Russian church

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Churches and Monasteries

First hierarchical Liturgy in 100 years celebrated at historic Russian church

The church, built 255 years ago, is considered a masterpiece of Russian architecture with walls decorated by nearly 400 unique frescoes created between 1796-1799.

Mass Baptisms in Belarus and Australia

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Coming to Orthodoxy

Mass Baptisms in Belarus and Australia

On July 28, the feast of St. Vladimir and the Baptism of Rus’, twenty people received Holy Baptism in the Neman River, near Belarus’ St. Elisha-Larishevsky Monastery.