Year 2020

A LIFE OF ST. PHILARET OF METROPOLITAN OF NEW YORK

Written by Dr. Vladimir Moss Early Years      Metropolitan Philaret, in the world George Nikolayevich Voznesensky, was born in the city of Kursk on March 22 / April 4, 1903, into the family of Protopriest Nicholas. In 1909 the…

St. Philaret the Almsgiver

Saint Philaret was from the village of Amnia in Paphlagonia. Early in life, Philaret was a very wealthy man, but by distributing abundant alms to the poor he himself became extremely poor. However, he was not afraid of poverty, and, not heeding…

Saint Andrew the First-Called

From The Prologue from Ochrid, Vol. 4 He was the son of Jonah and brother of Peter, born in Bethsaida and a fisherman by profession. He was first a disciple of St John the Baptist, but, when John pointed to…

Anathema Against Darwinism

At the Synod meeting of the Bishops of the Russian True Orthodox Church, during its regular meeting from November 08/21 to November 10/23, 2018 a judgment was made regarding the anathema of Charles Darwin’s materialistic theory of the evolution of…

Why Archimandrite Leontius was Anti-Social

source: catacombhistory.blogspot.com The future Archbishop of Chile (ROCOR), but then Archimandrite Leontius Fillipovich (†1971), recalls his time in the Catacomb Church: “Living in an illegal position and serving a very small number of my faithful parishioners, I didn’t always have…