Rating: 8.3|Votes: 17
The construction worker immediately notified the parish’s deacon after finding two Roman-era pots under the slab. Writing on the lids indicated that the pots contained bone fragments of St. Peter, as well as the early popes Cornelius, Callixtus, and Felix, and four early Christian martyrs.
Rating: 9.6|Votes: 5
Mykytiuk has added three names to the previously published 50 Old Testament individuals in the Bible, beginning with King David, all of whom he says he has verified through his research.
Fr. John Whiteford
Rating: 8.5|Votes: 12
In our services we often speak of “our holy and God-bearing fathers, and all the saints...” I understand that the reference is made to the Church’s founding fathers, but who is meant specifically? All the Apostles? Or just Peter and Paul?
Priest George Maximov
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 14
The patristic consensus, as on a whole the dogmatic authority of Church Tradition, places an insurmountable barrier on the path of those who would like to introduce some new teaching of their own into Orthodoxy. Even were you to convince the majority of modern men about it, it wouldn’t work out with the ancient saints who have already died and left their confession of faith without your innovation.
Rating: 7.5|Votes: 2
Today, there are nearly 80 Orthodox parishes in the greater Chicago area. The Orthodox presence in the area began in the late 1800s when the “Greco Slavonic Brotherhood” was created, including immigrants mainly from Sparta, Corfu, Montenegro, Herzegovina, and Carpatho-Russians and Galicians from then Austro-Hungarian Empire.