Sergianism as an Ecclesiological Heresy

On July 16/29, 1927, the deputy of the locum tenens of Russian patriarchal throne, Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky), issued his infamous "Declaration", in which he more or less unconditionally placed the Russian Church in submission to the God-hating atheists, declaring the joys of the Soviet state to be the Church's joys and the State's sorrows – the Church's sorrows.

The Defrocking of the Metropolitan of Oropos, Cyprian

From : The Voice of Orthodoxy (Foni tis Orthodoxias) The official periodical of the Synod of GOC of Greece (At that time under the presidency of Archbishop Chrysostom Kiousis) Issue 811 January-February 1987 page 23 The Defrocking of the Metropolitan…

HOLY HIEROCONFESSOR ALEXANDER OF OMSK (+1977)

HOLY HIEROCONFESSOR ALEXANDER OF OMSK (+1977)Hieromonk Alexander, in the world Athanasius Vasilyevich Turuntayevskikh (he later changed his surname to Orlov), was born in 1878 in Vologda province in the family of Protopriest Basil, who served in one parish for 50…

St. John Chrysostom: Commentary on the Belief of Thomas

St. John Chrysostom: Commentary on the Belief of Thomas “But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said, Except…