“We must keep the memory of the new martyrs for our descendants”

“We must keep the memory of the new martyrs for our descendants”

On Sunday, February 10, the Russian Orthodox Church commemorated the synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of Russia. Related to this event, we publish here an interview with Archpriest Vladimir Vorobiev on the exhibition devoted to the new martyrs, and organized in the diocesan house located in Likhov Lane, Moscow. Father Vladimir Vorobiev, the rector of Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University, speaks here about the creation of this museum, about

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“The nesting dolls of the Christian East”, by Father Alexander Winogradsky Frenkel

“The nesting dolls of the Christian East”, by Father Alexander Winogradsky Frenkel

Paraphrasing Luke the Evangelist in Acts 10:37, we could ask, “Do you know what happened in the whole country of Rus’?” The Patriarchate of Constantinople imposed the creation of a new “Orthodox Church in Ukraine” to the Moscow Patriarchate. Things evolved in conflicting ways between the heads of the Constantinople and Moscow Patriarchates, since the Russian Orthodox Church refused to participate in the Pan-Orthodox Council of Crete in 2016. Could

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Churches and priests’ houses searched by the Ukrainian police and the “Security Service of Ukraine” (SBU)

Churches and priests’ houses searched by the Ukrainian police and the “Security Service of Ukraine” (SBU)

On December 3, 2018, the Ukrainian police and the “Security Service of Ukraine” (SBU) conducted searches in the metropolis office of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, as well as in the churches and priests’ houses in the Diocese of Zhytomyr and Ovruch. This information was confirmed by the General Directorate of the Ukrainian National Police in the Zhytomyr Region and by the SBU Regional Directorate. As stated by the police, these

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“The decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate is uncanonical”, said Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro

“The decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate is uncanonical”, said Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro

In his interview with the first channel of Russian TV, Metropolitan Amfilohije first explained that “in this decision, the Patriarch of Constantinople, as other bishops of the Constantinople Patriarchate have been doing lately, is referring to the local churches right of appeal to the Patriarch of Constantinople. We call it “the ekkliton”. – When a problem arises with some bishops in any local church, the bishops would supposedly have the

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Statement by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the encroachment of the Patriarchate of Constantinople on the canonical territory of the Russian Church

Statement by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the encroachment of the Patriarchate of Constantinople on the canonical territory of the Russian Church

With profound pain the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has taken the report of the Patriarchate of Constantinople published on October 11, 2018, about the following decisions of the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople:  confirming the intention ‘to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church; opening a ‘stauropegion’ of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Kiev; ‘restoring in the rank of bishop or priest’ the leaders of the

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Remarks about unclear ecclesiastical and journalistic speech on the Ukraine, by Archbishop Irinej of Bačka

Remarks about unclear ecclesiastical and journalistic speech on the Ukraine, by Archbishop Irinej of Bačka

We exclusively publish here the English translation of remarks made by Bishop Irinej of Bačka (Patriarchate of Serbia) and published in Greek on the Romfea website. He analyses the ecclesiastical situation in the Ukraine. “If we consider how both members of the clergy (especially hierarchs and theologians) and journalists, whether specialized in our topic or not, speak or write about the ecclesiastical issue in the Ukraine, we can only notice

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Archbishop Job (Getcha) of Telmessos: “Ukraine has always been the canonical territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate”

Archbishop Job (Getcha) of Telmessos: “Ukraine has always been the canonical territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate”

The dialogue regarding the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church and the appointment of its exarchs to Ukraine for this purpose, has resulted in opposition from the Moscow Patriarchate and their break in concelebrating with the hierarchs of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, has recently been one of the main topics of conversation that do no cease in Ukrainian society and Media. There are a lot of rumors

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Statement of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the uncanonical intervention of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church – full text

Statement of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church concerning the uncanonical intervention of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the canonical territory of the Russian Orthodox Church – full text

The Statement was adopted at an extraordinary session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on 14 September 2018 (Minutes No. 69). With profound regret and sorrow the Holy Synod the Russian Orthodox Church learned about the statement made by the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople concerning the appointment of its two “exarchs” to Kiev. This decision was taken without an agreement with the Primate

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