Chinese Orthodox Church

Patriarch Kirill: The dreams of the Chinese Orthodox Church’s bright future begins to come true

May 15, 2013 Featured News

On May 12, 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia had a talk with Chinese believers at the Russian Embassy in Beijing. The Primate of the Russian Church had met many of them before when he visited China as chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations. He reminded his [...]

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Divine service on the holy day of Christ’s Radiant Resurrection

May 11, 2013 Featured News

The Chinese Orthodox Church English translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas On the night of May 4 to 5, 2013 Paschal services took place at the Dormition Church in Beijing: the Midnight office, procession, Paschal Matins and the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. This year the service was led by Archpriest Andrew Milkin, head of the Patriarchal protocol. [...]

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Celebrating Feast of St Innocent of Irkutsk in Hong Kong

December 15, 2012 Featured News

Chinese Orthodox Church – 15/12/12 Sunday December 9, 2012 commemorates the repose of St Innocent of Irkutsk (+26 November 1731) according to the church calendar. A special prayer service in front of the icon of St Innocent was led by the rector Fr Dionisy Pozdnyaev preceding the Sunday morning Divine Liturgy at SS Peter & Paul parish in Hong [...]

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Second day Hong Kong celebration of 300 years of Russian Mission in China

December 9, 2012 Featured News

  The Chinese Orthodox Church 9/12/2012 Friday December 7, 2012 was the second day where special events were held commemorating 300 years of the Russian Orthodox Mission in China. Early in the morning, the hierarchical Divine Liturgy at SS Peter & Paul parish in Hong Kong was presided by Bishop Ephraim of Bikin, Provost of Khabarovsk Theological Seminary. Concelebrating with [...]

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Guests from China took part in the Orthodox quiz

November 3, 2012 News

Chinese Orthodox Church English translation by Katherine Ilachinski 3/11/2012 With the blessing of His Grace Maxim, Bishop of Barnaul and Altai, Barnaul seminary rector, on October 13, as part of the Open House of Barnaul Theological School, in the auditorium of the seminary, a quiz was held for students from China studying in the Altai [...]

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Metropolitan Hilarion celebrates liturgy in the Chinese Patriarchal Representation in Moscow

October 8, 2012 News

The Chinese Orthodox Church September 2012 English translation by Katherine Ilachinski On September 21, 2012, the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the chairman of the Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion celebrated Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas (Nativity of the Mother of God) church in Golutvino – in the Chinese Patriarchal representation [...]

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Ambassador of Russian Tourism Year to China Year visited Trinity-Sergius Lavra

August 18, 2012 News

Chinese Orthodox Church English translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas On August 14, 2012 Li Jian, the famous Chinese writer and performer of popular music, visited Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra; in March 2012 he became the Ambassador of Russian Tourism Year to China. Li Jian and members of the accompanying Chinese delegation familiarized themselves with the [...]

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A book in Chinese for the newly-baptized is published in Hong Kong

August 16, 2012 Featured News

Chinese Orthodox Church 16/8/2012 English translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas Purchase a Copy here: PRAVMIR – Hong Kong. A book on the Orthodox Liturgy for newly-baptized Orthodox adults and children has been published in Chinese. Ivan Shchelokov, a student of the Moscow Theological Academy studying Chinese at Jinan University translated “Tomorrow is Sunday”, a book [...]

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“The Faith We Hold” by Archbishop Paul (Olmari) is released in a Russian-Chinese edition

August 10, 2012 Featured News

The Chinese Orthodox Church 10/8/2012 English translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas Purchase a Copy here: PRAVMIR. “The Faith We Hold”, the well-known book by Archbishop Paul (Olmari) of Finland has been released jointly by the publishing house “Alavastr” together with Hong Kong’s Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The author succinctly sets [...]

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Hierarchical Liturgy served in Pokrov Church of Harbin for first time in half a century

June 29, 2012 Featured News

The Chinese Orthodox Church English Translation by Katherine Ilachinski On June 24, 2012, the day when Orthodox Christians in China celebrate the memory of two hundred twenty-two Chinese martyrs who suffered for Christ in 1900, Metropolitan Hilarion, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of Moscow Patriarchate, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Holy [...]

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Metropolitan Hilarion celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St. Nicholas church in Shanghai

June 26, 2012 Featured News

25/6/2012 The Chinese Orthodox Church On June 23, 2012, Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of Moscow Patriarchate, who is in China with the blessing of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril and at the invitation of China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), conducted a service at St. Nicholas [...]

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Metropolitan Hilarion meets with Consul General of Russia in Shanghai

June 24, 2012 News

English translation by Katherine Ilachinski The Chinese Orthodox Church On June 22, 2012, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of Moscow Patriarchate, who is in China with the blessing of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and at the invitation of China’s State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), [...]

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Consultations took place in the Russian-Chinese group of contacts and cooperation in the religious sphere

June 21, 2012 Featured News

The Chinese Orthodox Church 19/6/2012 On June 19, 2012 in the State Administration for Religious Affairs of the P.R.C. in Beijing were held the second consultation of the Russian-Chinese group of contacts and cooperation in the religious sphere. Russian-Chinese group of contacts and cooperation in the of religious sphere established in accordance with the memorandum [...]

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A working trip of Metropolitan Hilarion in Khabarovsk

June 20, 2012 News

The Chinese Orthodox Church 18/6/2012 On June 18, 2012, Metropolitan Hilarion, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of Moscow Patriarchate, visited Khabarovsk on his way to China. On the trip Vladika Hilarion was escorted by a member of Department for External Church Relations of Moscow Patriarchate D.I. Petrovsky, assistant chairman of the DECR, [...]

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Protection of the Virgin of Khabarovsk

June 14, 2012 Featured News
Protection of the Virgin of Khabarovsk

The Chinese Orthodox Church 14/6/2012 English Translation by Katherine Ilachinski Motor race participants from Russia to China gave a copy of the Khabarovsk icon of Our Lady to Russian cultural complex estate “Volga” in Harbin. Harbin. May 19. Interfax – FAR EAST – The motor race participants from Russia to China, visited the graves of [...]

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Paschal joy in Shanghai

May 8, 2012 News

The Chinese Orthodox Church English translation by Katherine Ilachinski 7/5/2012 On April 15, 2012 at St. Nicholas Church-monument was held in Shanghai festive Paschal service. Local authorities gave a permit to conduct church services, after a long delay: last time the faithful gathered for prayer in this unique temple remaining from the first Russian emigration, [...]

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Paschal celebrations in China

May 5, 2012 Featured News

Chinese Orthodox Church English translation by Katherine Ilachinsk 2/5/2012 Worship at the Dormition church-museum on the territory of Russian Embassy in China during the Holy Week occurred daily. Rector of the Dormition Church priest Sergey Voronin was helped by cleric of Australian Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia, Fr Alexis Duke, and a [...]

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CHURCH-MONUMENT of Archangel Michael. City of Dalian

April 2, 2012 News
Panorama of the Russian cemetery

Chinese Orthodox Church Levoshko S.S. English translation by Katherine Ilachinski 2/4/2012 The Chapel in the city of Dalian was until 1902 at the Russian cemetery, which existed in the newly built city as the public cemetery. During the Russo-Japanese War, when they began to bury the dead soldiers, the chapel has acquired the status of [...]

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Journalists from China visited the Trinity-Sergius Lavra

March 23, 2012 News

23/3/2012 The Chinese Orthodox Church On March 16, 2012, a group of journalists accredited in Russia, the People’s Republic of China media (“Xinhua” news agency, China Central Television, China Radio International, China’s news agency, newspaper “People’s Daily”, “Guangming Daily”, “Economic Daily”, “Wen Wei Po”) visited the Trinity-Sergius Lavra . The trip was organized by the [...]

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Fr. A. Torik’s book “Votserkovleniye: On becoming one with the Church” is published in Chinese

December 30, 2011 Featured News

English translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas 29/12/2011 The Chinese Orthodox Church The Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Hong Kong has translated and published in the Chinese-language book by Archpriest A. Torik “On becoming one with the Church”. Today it is one of the few books available to the Chinese reader [...]

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Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca

December 27, 2011 News

The Chinese Orthodox Church 26/12/2011 Edited & compiled by Jacques Paul Migne Script: Greek with Latin translation Publisher: Imprimerie Catholique Date: 1857-1866 Format/Pages: DVD ISBN: N/A Availability: ship from USA Price: minimum $50 US tax-deductible donation (cheque payable to OFASC) Description With a US tax-deductible donation to the Orthodox Fellowship of All Saints of China [...]

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Early 20th century Chinese Orthodox books discovered in Beijing

November 18, 2011 Featured News

16/11/2011 The Chinese Orthodox Church While searching online catalogues of ancient books collections of several major universities in China, three rare Chinese Orthodox books have been discovered in the rare book collection of Beijing Normal University. These lithographed editions include: Horologion 時課經》published 1909 Psalter《聖詠經》 published 1910 Genesis《創世紀第一書》published 1911 The Orthodox Brotherhood Of Apostles Saints Peter [...]

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English translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas

October 13, 2011 News

The Chinese Orthodox Church 11/10/2011 The Yekaterinodar Diocese released the film “Beiguan. The last Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in China”, which tells about the 20th Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in China and its leader, Vladyka Victor (Svyatin). The film tells about the activities of the Beijing mission in difficult times — during the Japanese occupation, the Communist [...]

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Services in memory of the defenders and inhabitants of Port Arthur are conducted on the day celebrating the Port Arthur Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (Mother of God)

September 2, 2011 News

Chinese Orthodox Church 30/8/2011 On August 29, 2011, on the holiday celebrating the Port Arthur Icon of the Mother of God, also called “The Feast of the Most Holy Theotokos,” Fr. Sergei Voronin, priest-in-charge of the Dormition Church in Beijing, conducted a prayer service with an Akathist and a memorial service for compatriots – defenders [...]

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Nizhny Novgorod University students visited Dormition Church in Beijing

July 19, 2011 News

The Chinese Orthodox Church English translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas 17/7/2011 On July 16, 2010 Fr. Sergei Voronin, priest-in-charge of the Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Beijing met with a group of students from Nizhny Novgorod State University named after NI Lobachevsky (Faculty of International Relations). Students, who are interning in China [...]

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