

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe

RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Year 2020



The Russian True Orthodox Church – Patriarch Tikhon’s Catacomb Church
See in the Official Site of the Synod The Russian True Orthodox Church (RTOC), also known as the Catacomb Church – a canonical rightful successor to the Tikhonite Local All-Russian Church, was fully organized in the late twenties and early thirties of…

Learning the One Dreadful and the One Desirable Thing.
The Father of Fathers St. Gregory of Nyssa tells us, We regard falling from God’s friendship as the only thing dreadful, and we consider becoming God’s friend the only thing worthy of honor and desire.

Epiphanius of the Ukraine On Using Leftovers (It’s All the Same Anyway!)
According to the News Agency “Romfea” “Metropolitan” Epiphaniy of Ukraine mentioned the raising of their autocephalous church to a Patriarchate in an introduction at a meeting of members of his Synod on December 15, 2020. Epiphanius also touched upon the…

“Know Thyself”
The Ancient Greek adage “Know Thyself” («Γνῶθι σαὐτόν») often attributed to Chilon of Sparta (600 BC) but also to multiple other Greek philosophers, was one of the Delphic maxims and the first of three aphorisms inscribed on the pronaos of the Temple…

Ἡ Συνάντησίς μου μὲ τὸν Γέρο-Παΐσιο
Ἐπισκόπου Φιλαρέτου Ἧταν τῶν Ἁγίων Ἀναγύρων 1 (14 μὲ τὸ νέο) Νοεμβρίου τοῦ 1992 ἠμέρα Σάββατο. Εἶχα 6 χρόνια ποὺ ἦμουν ἱερέας. Στὴν Δάφνη τοῦ Ἁγίου Ὄρους εἶχα φτάσει πολὺ ἐνωρὶς καὶ περίμενα τὸ καράβι νὰ βγώ ἔξω μετὰ ἀπὸ…

My Own Encounter with the Elder Paisios
by Bishop Philaretos It was the feast of the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian (1/14 November) of 1992 and a Saturday. The weather was gray and looked like rain was on its way. I was already a priest for 6…


The Two Springs that Emerge from the Church – A Beginning
From the very beginning of the Church, two sources of teaching guided the Church. These were the Holy Scriptures and Holy Tradition. This Holy Tradition comes down to us from the very successors of the Holy Apostles. The canon (which…