RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
RTOC Diocese of Pallini & Western Europe
During the persecution of the Church and its clergy, in 1923 there came to the Caucasus a holy recluse, Elder Macarius. He appeared in the territory of Vladikavkaz, in a deserted place 20 miles from a small railroad station by…
From the life of Saint Antonina the Abbess: catacombhistory.blogspot.com An Abbess of the Catacomb Church during Soviet times. When her time of sentence was over, a group of twelve nuns formed a monastic community under her direction and went to…
Bishop Michael (Yershov) was born on September 17, 1911 (or October 12), in the village of Mamykovo in Kazan province, in a peasant family. His father, whose name was Basil, had taken part in the Russo-Japanese War, the First World…
published in Orthodox Life magazine 1960 (4) by Archimandrite Constantine Zaitsev THE SPIRITUAL STATE OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLDIntervene, save, have mercy, and preserve us, O Lord, through Thy grace. As an epigraph, I have used the appeal of a liturgical prayer,…
THE CATACOMB CHURCH IN THE SOVIET UNION by Ivan Andreyev The All-Russian Church Council in Moscow in 1917-1918 gave the Russian Orthodox Church a firm canonical basis for the life of the Christian Church in an anti-Christian state. Patriarch Tikhon…
We have received from the Church of God, that upon this day we owe yearly thanksgiving to God along with an exposition of the dogmas of piety and the overturning of the impieties of evil. Following therefore the sayings of…
From the archives of our monastery.
Left to right; Russian priest, Metropolitan Akakios of Diavleia, Archbishop Laurus of ROCOR, in behind in black Archimandrite (later Metropolitan of Knossos) Merkourios, Archbishop Auxentios of the Church of Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece, Metropolitan Petros of Astoria, in behind in black Archimandrite (later Metropolitan of Attiki and Megara) Antonios, Metropolitan Gerontios of Piraeus, Archimandrite Niphon (Astyfidis, brother according to the flesh of Metropolitan Petros)
