The Sacred Council of the Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, which took place at the Church of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and St. Sergius’s Laura of the Holy Trinity from October 3 to 8, 2004, addresses the Plenitude of our Church with the words of the Apostle: ’Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord’ (2 Pet. 1:2).
The Holy Archpastors Council thanks the Lord for the continuing and all-embracing revival of church life in the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Council regards with satisfaction the general tendency to the development of all aspects of diocese and parish life.
Yuri Klitsenko
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The story about the walk of Agapius to paradise belong the apocalyptical genre of visions, miraculous ascensions to heaven and journeys to the other world. The main topic of the apocrypha is graceful tie of the Orthodox monastery with the shrines of Palestine and the Garden of Eden.
On the eve of his first official visit to Russia, scheduled to begin on May 14, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Metropolitan Laurus, granted an exclusive interview to Interfax.
Interview with Archpriest Georgy Mitrofanov, participant of the All-Diaspora Pastoral Conference in Nyack (December 8-12, 2003)
We managed to show the clergy abroad things they were unaware of: the enormous work conducted in our Church in the recent years. It is most important that we marked to them the aspects of the path of martyrdom traveled by the Church in Russia, which might have been known to them, but were not paid the due importance.
