Holy hieromartyr John of Gogolev

Holy hieromartyr John of Gogolev Priest John Rusanovich was born in 1875 in the village of Gogolev, Chernigov province (now Brovara region, Kiev province) in the family of an Orthodox priest, Fr. Simeon, the rector of the Gogolev church of…

RTOC Russian True Orthodox Church

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE RTOC

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE RTOC The Russian True Orthodox Church (its other name is the Catacomb Church) began its organized existence as a branch of the Local Russian Church at the end of the 1920s – beginning of the 1930s as a…

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…