RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
Today, July 16/29, is the anniversary of the notorious declaration of Metropolitan Sergius of Nizhni-Novogord in 1927, which created the largest schism in Church history since the Roman Catholic schism of 1054 and under whose shadow the whole life of…
Protodeacon Procopius was the choir director in the village of Kamyshinka, Bystro-Istoksky uyezd, Altai district, Siberia, and also served as a deacon in the Alexandrovskaya church in Biisk. At the end of 1928 or the beginning of 1929, he was…
HIEROCONFESSOR THEODORE (RAFANOVICH) OF KHYMY Archimandrite Theodore, in the world Theodore Andreyevich Rafanovich, was born in Belorussia in the village of Khanichi in Mogilev region. Once as a child he wandered into the rye and came across a wolf. Thinking…
The Nuns of Shamordinoin Solovki Prison AND THE MIRACLE OF THEIR MANLINESS Commemorated November 12 Upon him who labors—God sheds mercy, but he who loves acquires consolation. Elder Ambrose of Optina In the summer of 1929, there came to Solovki about…
Matushka Maria of Gatchina THE CONSOLING CATACOMB ELDRESS Commemorated January 26 (†1930)Intense sorrows, like gold in the furnace, purify the soul, give it life, fortify and temper it. -St. Joseph of Petrograd Some thirty miles from Petrograd there is the small town…
Abbess Sophia of KievCATACOMB ABBESS OF THE PROTECTION CONVENTCommemorated March 22 (†1941) The righteous doth sing and rejoiceProv. 29:6 OF INESTIMABLE SPIRITUAL VALUE is the fearless stand for Christ’s Truth by the New Martyrs of Russia. Especially by their manful…
Both in terms of canonicity and confession of Faith, the Second Sobor of Bishops of the RTOC, testifies to the complete continuity in its relation to the decisions of the First Holy Sobor of the RTOC held in the year…
Nicetas (Lekhan) Hieroconfessor of Kharkov
