His Eminence was ordained to the diaconate on May 22, 1974, in Smolensk.
There is a view among certain Hellenophone Churches and certain other hierarchs that true autocephaly can only be granted by Constantinople.
The Serbian hierarch is himself no stranger to state persecution.
Protopresbyter Joseph Dzagoev
We have every reason to call both Solovki and Magadan and their surrounding territories an enormous Russian antimension spread under the open sky.
The Estonian Orthodox Church has enlisted the help of a local law firm as the state calls upon the Church to sever its legal and canonical ties with the Moscow Patriarchate.