Jakarta, Indonesia- Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral) of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) Archbishop of Australia and New Zealand arrived in Indonesia today and served a liturgy in Jakarta were he ordained 2 Indonesians deacons to the Priesthood. During the course of his [...]
Proto-priest Michael Protopopov
Warrnambool, Australia – On the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 1st Eccumenical council, the Russian Orthodox community in the Australian city of Warrnambool celebrated their Parish feast day and a 10 year jubilee since the day the parish was converted from a historical Anglican Church to a thriving Russian Orthodox [...]
The Lord said: “You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you, hypocrites, cannot discern the signs of the times” (Matthew 16:2-4).
Dearest Beloved,
We are not pessimists, and we are not prophets of doom and gloom. However, we are also not prophets of cheerfulness and positive-thinking. Our Lord instructed us to discern the [...]
Chinese Orthodox Church
On August 16, 1897 – an official date that started construction of Chinese East Railway (KVZhD in Russian), which connected Siberia with Sea Area (Primorsky Krai) through territory of China in Manchuria. The beginning of construction of road and settlements along its line it is necessary to consider June 11, 1898. For [...]
1917 Council and Tomos:
St Tikhon’s Vision then and now
Address of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah
June 20, 2009
The Great Council of 1917, and the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church that it began, are aspects of the de-imperialization of the Orthodox Church and its canonical structures. This began a process of the transcendence of the imperial [...]
The Orthodox Christian Advocacy Institute (OCAI) researches, investigates, and reports incidents involving the persecution of the Orthodox Christian Church. They focus on contemporary events in locations throughout the world, wherever persecution of the Orthodox Church exists and present this information to the Christian community, human rights groups, and governmental organizations.
An article compiled by the OCAI [...]
Privy Purse literally means allowance of money allocated from the public revenue for the private expenses of a Sovereign or monarch. Our bishops are generally considered kings of their dioceses (a bishop is a king of his people, priest of his people and a prophet of his people). And on this reason they are buried [...]
St. Brigid was born in the mid-fifth century at Faughart, near Dundalk, in Ireland, a member of a family brought to Christianity by St. Patrick.
At an early age she became a nun, first living alone in a cell by an oak tree (kill-dara in Irish). A monastic community grew up around her, in time becoming [...]
Archimandrite Tikhon. Reminiscences of Sretensky Monastery
The history of Sretensky Monastery—its apogee, its desolation in the twentieth century, and its rebirth at the end of an era, in the early 1990’s—is rich and diverse. But we can always find the Lord’s instruction in whatever might happen. Here are just a few incidents from the monastery’s recent [...]
Priest Vadim Leonov: “At Seminary, you receive the leaven which will enliven the rest of your life.”
In 1999 in Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery, a theological school was opened—Sretensky Orthodox High School, which was later reorganized as Sretensky Theological Seminary (STS). Instructors and students at STS talk about the choice of their life’s [...]
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