The Origins of Modern-Day Ukrainian Ecclesiastical Anarchy

“Lipkovskyism” As a Spiritual, Canonical, and Ecclesiological Problem of the Ukrainian Churches

Sergei Shumilo

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Church History

Rating: 7.7|Votes: 10

The Origins of Modern-Day Ukrainian Ecclesiastical Anarchy

“Lipkovskyism” As a Spiritual, Canonical, and Ecclesiological Problem of the Ukrainian Churches

Sergei Shumilo

And although there is virtually nothing and no one left of Lipkovsky in the Church outwardly, it hovers over our Church as a black raven, corrupting it from the inside to this day…

We’re In the Lavra! You Can See All the Saints—And They All See You

“The Lord will set everything right”— Reflections and rare stories about the Kiev Caves Lavra

Matfey Shaheen

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Churches and Monasteries

Rating: 9.5|Votes: 18

We’re In the Lavra! You Can See All the Saints—And They All See You

“The Lord will set everything right”— Reflections and rare stories about the Kiev Caves Lavra

Matfey Shaheen

Rather than attempting to add to the litany of excellent publications on the feast day, and retell the same glorious stories, let’s take a look and reflect on some stories and aspects of the Lavra that are rarely told in the English language.

The “Will and Testament” of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 10|Votes: 9

The “Will and Testament” of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

The “Will and Testament” of the Forty Martyrs—the Roman soldiers of the Eleventh Thundering Legion (Legio XII Fulminata) who suffered in 320 in the town of Sebaste (Lesser Armenia)—is an important historical document and memorial of early Christian hagiographic literature.

Ukraine: Then and Now

Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

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Church History

Rating: 9.1|Votes: 29

Ukraine: Then and Now

Archpriest Andrei Tkachev

This assessment and comparison of persecutions against the Church in Ukraine by the Poroshenko government today and its persecution by the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth after the Brest Unia in the sixteenth century was offered by an Archpriest Andrei Tkachev, who was born and raised in Lvov, the center of Western Ukraine and the stronghold of Greek Catholicism (Uniatism).

Victims of Romanian communist regime commemorated at Memorial Monastery

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Church History

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Victims of Romanian communist regime commemorated at Memorial Monastery

On Saturday, as the Church celebrated all those saints who have shown forth in asceticism, just on the threshold of Lent, the Romanian Orthodox Church also prayed for all those who lost their lives at the hands of the godless communist regime in the 20th century.