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…
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…
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…
Adorned with their Blood Excerpt from the Epistle of His Eminence Metropolitan Philaret Unwavering faithfulness to Christ shines forth especially clearly and victoriously in the struggle of those whom Christian antiquity called “witnesses” (in Greek, martys). This struggle of martyrdom…
SAINT PHILARET OF NEW YORK, THE NEW CONFESSOR SPEAKING ABOUT THE “BROAD WAY”– LENTEN EPISTLE TO PATRIARCH ATHENAGORAS (1968). We must note the following messages that St. Philaret sent out to the world in this epistle of 1968. “To that…
