| On the 29 th of October, the Primate of the Assyrian Church of the East led the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Moscow Assyrian Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mat Maryam) - the Representative Office of the Assyrian Church in Russia. His Holiness Catholicos Mar Awa performed the rite of the great consecration of the renovated temple altar and Divine Liturgy in the company of members of the Assyrian delegation. Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church who accompanied the Assyrian First Hierarch were present, as well as the Ambassador of Iraq to Russia K. al-Janabi, the leadership of the Representation of the Kurdistan Region in Russia and the Consul of the State of Palestine in the Russian Federation J. Malki. At the end of the service a solemn act, reception and meeting of the Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Awa with members of the youth movement of the parish of Mat Maryam were held in the representative premises of the temple complex. The hosts of the festive evening were the rector of the temple, the representative of the Assyrian Church in Russia, Chorbishop Samano Odisho and the head of the parish community churchwarden V.V. Ilyushin. On the 30 th of October, a delegation fr om the Assyrian Church of the East visited the churches of the Patriarchal Chernigov Palace and the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Institute of Postgraduate Studies. The meeting of Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Awa with the members of the faculty and students took place in the Assembly Hall of the Institute. The meeting was followed by a conversation between the distinguished guest and Archpriest Maxim Kozlov, Rector of Instutute, during which the parties discussed issues of academic co-operation between the educational institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Assyrian Church of the East. In the context of his visit to the Institute of Postgraduate Studies, Catholicos Mar Awa also had a conversation with S.G. Alferov, a lecturer of the joint course of the DECR and the Institute called " Ancient Oriental Churches " . The Primate of the Assyrian Church welcomed the teaching of this course, noting that the initiator of its establishment back in the early 1970s at the Moscow and Leningrad Theological Academies was Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov), of blessed memory - mentor of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus " Kirill. His Holiness the Catholicos also approved the idea of creating a special educational programme within the framework of the course, dedicated to the study of the heritage of the Syrian Christian tradition, and expressed readiness to assist in the organisation of joint thematic events, including in Iraq. |
| Metropolitan Merkury of Rostov and Novocherkassk, chairman of the Synodal Department for Education and Catechization; Metropolitan Mark of Ryazan and Mikhailov, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Finance and Economic Administration; Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations with the Cossacks; Archbishop Yevgeny of Vereya, chairman of the Holy Synod’s Education Committee; Archbishop Feognost of Sergiev Posad, chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism; Bishop Sergy of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Administrative Secretariat; Bishop Irinarkh of Krasnogorsk, head of the Synodal Department for Prison Ministry; Bishop Ignaty of Vyborg and Priozersk, chairman of the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs; Bishop Panteleimon of Orekhovo-Zuevo, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry; Bishop Tikhon of Yegorievsk, executive secretary of the Patriarchal Council for Culture; Bishop Antony of Bogorodsk, head of the Administration of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Institutions Abroad; Archpriest Sergy Privalov, chairman of the Synodal Department for Cooperation with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies; Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, chairman of the Patriarchal Commission for Family and Protection of Motherhood and Childhood; Mr. Vladimir Legoida, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media. Invited to attend the session were Bishop Savva of Voskresensk, first deputy chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Archimandrite Savva (Tutunov), deputy chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Archpriest Maxim Kozlov, deputy chairman of the Education Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church; hegumeness Ksenia (Chernega), head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Legal Service; and A.Schipkov, first deputy chairman of the Synodal Department for Church’s Relations with Society and Mass Media. Code for blog Since you are here… |
| Metropolitan Feofan of Kazan and Tatarstan highlighted the unique experience of teaching and studying theology in the Metropolis of Kazan in which Orthodox Christians and Muslims live in equal number. Kazan, he said, is ‘a fruitful soil’ for Orthodox-Islamic dialogue. He also spoke about a project of the working committee in Tatarstan for coordinating the work of the TSEA institutions and the effots to involve leading higher education institutions in Tatarstan in the Association. The first deputy head of the Russian Federation Muslim Board, Damir-khazrat Mukhetdinov, spoke about special features of the Muslim theology and the process of its successful development. In a continuation of his presentation, Metropolitan Hilarion spoke about the experience of an inter-confessional academic exchange organized by the CMI and the Bulgarian Islamic Academy. The rector of the Russian Peoples’ Friendship University (RUDN), V. Filippov, in his remarks, touched upon the international dialogue of specialists in theology conducted in the RUDN by an international symposium as part of the current conference. He made a special emphasis on the need to develop not only an educational but also professional Theology standard. The chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church’s education committee, Archpriest Maxim Kozlov, in his report, stressed the need to apply to the Theology standard as strict criteria and demands as are applied to other disciplines. The rector of the North Caucasus Federal University, Ms. A. Levitskaya, and the chief of the Ivanovo Fire-Rescue Academy of the Ministry of Emergences Situations, Gen.-Left. I. Maloy, highlighted the work to develop theological knowledge and its peculiarities in the MES higher education institutions. The work of the session was concluded with a report by the rector of the St. Tikhon Orthodox University of Humanities, Archpriest Vladimir Solovyev, who spoke, in particular, on prospects for the development of theology. While the Church cannot work without relations with the state, he said, she is the only force capable of ensuring the proper spiritual and moral education of the younger generations in school. |
| In addition, a huge amount of flights, transfers around cities and other “environmentally hazardous things” take place “solely for people to gratify their pride, gain super-incomes, and do other pretty pointless things,” he said. “Would it not make sense to abandon at least some of this so that the beautiful world created by God and surrounding us should be just a little purer and more harmonic and so that our souls suffer just a little bit less from vanity?” the priest said. Source: Interfax Code for blog Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. For example, 5 euros a month is it a lot or little? A cup of coffee? It is not that much for a family budget, but it is a significant amount for Pravmir. If everyone reading Pravmir could donate 5 euros a month, they would contribute greatly to our ability to spread the word of Christ, Orthodoxy, life " s purpose, family and society. Related articles In recent times, the ecological crisis has been brought increasingly to our attention. Scientists, the media,… On January 7, 2014, the station Rossiia televised an interview with His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of… April 12, 2013 Participation in social networks is fraught with spiritual danger, believes Archpriest Maxim Kozlov,… Also by this author Today " s Articles Most viewed articles Functionality is temporarily unavailable. Most popular authors Functionality is temporarily unavailable. |
| Talks chaired by archpriest Maxim Kozlov focused on the implementation of a programme of cooperation between the Theological Institute and educational institutions of the Diocese of Russia and New Nakhichevan. The programme is planned to start in the early 2024 with support of the DECR and educational institutions of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. A list of concrete directions of cooperation was finalized earlier. It includes joint projects in studying liturgical traditions of the Orthodox Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church, monuments of Russian and Armenian church architecture, Russian and Armenian church history and literature, sacred music and iconography. Representing the Russian Orthodox Church were also hegumen Antoniy (Kadyshev), vice-rector for youth policy and education; deacon Arseniy Grigorian, head of an Institute’s department; Sergei Alferov, a DECR staff member and a senior lecturer at the department of church practical disciplines; and Andrei Gusev, head of the administration for educational programs. The Armenian side was represented by subdeacon Vartan Pogosian, David Bagdasarian and Karapet Nalbandian. At the end of the meeting, the parties exchanged Christmas gifts. The guests had a sightseeing tour of churches and surrounding territory of the Chernigov Patriarchal Metochion. At the Book Chamber they saw a culinary master class on preparing soaked grains eaten on Christmas Eve by tradition of Orthodox Slavic nations. On the same day, the participants in the meeting took a guided tour of Zamoskvorechye district and visited the Martha and Mary Community of Mercy, where a reception was given in honor of representatives of the Armenian Diocese of Russia and New Nakhichevan on behalf of the abbess Elisaveta (Pozdnyakova). DECR Communication Service /Patriarchia.ru Календарь ← 12 апреля 2024 г. (30 марта ст.ст.) пятница Прп. Иоанна Лествичника (649). Свт. Софрония, еп. Иркутского (1771). Прор. Иоада (X в. до Р. Х.). Апп. Сосфена, Аполлоса, Кифы, Кесаря и Епафродита (I). Св. Еввулы, матери вмч. Пантелеимона (ок. 303). Прп. Иоанна безмолвника (VI). Прп. Зосимы, еп. Сиракузского (ок. 662). |
| Concerning participation of Archpriest Maxim Kozlov… Being for many years a lecturer of comparative theology in the Moscow Theological Academy, Archpriest Maxim is probably one of the most competent authorities in the complicated issue raised by the Russian Church Abroad in the dispute with us: the issue of ecumenism. My participation in this meeting did not happen by chance either. The reason for it is not only my participation in the conference last year, where I read a lecture “The Russian Orthodox Church and the main stages of anti-Bolshevik movement (1917-1945)”, which received a very positive attitude of representatives of the Church Abroad. The point is that during all the time of my church-historic activities I have been tackling the problem of the interrelationship of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (since 1988 I have been teaching a course of history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 20th century in theological schools in St. Petersburg). In fact the first experience of analysis of this relationship was my work that first appeared in 1991 in the “Khristianskoye Chtenie” magazine, and then was published as a separate book under the title “The Orthodox Church in Russia and in Diaspora in 1920s”. I wrote this book very quickly because in Russia parishes of the Russian Church Abroad started to appear, and the deceased Metropolitan John (Snychev) worried about it and blessed me to make an objective analysis of the relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and Abroad and tell of the origin of the Russian Church Abroad. That is why I cited amply the documents not only of our Church, but also of the Church Abroad, and in many cases those were documents that had never been published before in Russia; their full texts are given in the end of this book. Since 1991 I worked in the archive of the Synod of the Church Abroad in the State Archive of Russian Federation, and all these years I have been tackling these issues. |
| “One bitter moment stuck in my memory. I was at one parish church on Pascha; it was the time when I became aware that I was a Christian. Perhaps I was still uncomprehending and inexperienced, but by that time I had entered into Church life, I felt a sense of belonging and unity of people who gathered at church. I was astonished that a local priest refused to help my friends through the cordon. I reached the church’s courtyard, while my companions were standing behind—they had lingered and thus were late. There were only two of them, but they came there not just to stare at others… And they were not let in. So I managed to go through the line and asked the priest to help me, taking his blessing. But the latter refused: “Yes, I see that you are from our parish, but I don’t know who those guys are. I am in charge of my own parishioners only,” he said. It was very disappointing, although now I understand that priest very well. Archpriest Maxim Kozlov: When they did not let you in they explained it by the fact that a large number of odd idlers were walking around, and it was the task of the public order volunteers to protect us from these gawkers and hooligans. But in reality their aim was to deny young people access to church. That is why it was necessary for young believers not to be timid and confused. They were to walk very confidently, demonstrating that they knew perfectly well where they were going.” A girl at a church, the 1970s. Prof. A.S.: I remember the courtyard of St. Pimen’s Church, nine in the evening: The Book of Acts was being read. I could come in and listen, but realize that the whole night with the Paschal service is ahead of me and go out to a narrow courtyard. It is warm, late April or early May. All are waiting for this holy day and you are in good spirits. You have nowhere to sit down because all of two or three benches are occupied. You are standing and looking at people. You have no contact with them; it was a church where believers from a number of Moscow’s bedroom neighborhoods would come, and people communicated with each other very little. Of course, there was one circle of friends, but I did not belong to it. Those guys are drawing near, with Komsomol membership badges on the lapels of their jackets and the, “Public order volunteer” bands on their arms. “What are you doing here?” They ask. |
| “Its only Head, under Whose “canonical” rule it is, is God Himself in Christ through the gift and gifts of the Holy Spirit.” (Orthodox community, p. 21). Well, how about that. No canonical control or accountability to anyone. Only full rights and freedom. It seems not even Luther was so deluded. All the canons are nullified, the traditions are done away with, and there are no external authorities. Fr. Georgiy is taking to an absurd extreme the theory of Fr. Nicholas Afanasiev, according to which the local Church-community with one bishop at the head is the Ecumenical Church as such, and thus needs no Patriarchates or Metropolitanates. Furthermore, this Kochetkov-style Church-family exists in principle outside of the state and society: 3. “Such a community cannot be internally bound in any way with a so-called Christian state and society; it can normally live, “bear fruit”, and do good works in any state and in any society” (Orthodox community, p. 21–22). No obligations before the Church, or before the state and society. But at the same time—total isolationism similar to that of the Jehovah’s witnesses, Moonies, and Scientologists. No ecclesiastical, state, or societal control whatsoever; and this makes it possible for them to embrace any heresy or spiritual perversion. The author of this text is not alone in his conclusions. He is only agreeing with the results of the theological commission held in 2000, which included highly authoritative and deeply (as opposed to Fr. Georgiy Kochetkov) theologically educated people. Allow me to present a list of them: Chairman of the commission : Archpriest Sergiy Pravdoliubov, master of Theology, professor of the Moscow Theological Academy. In 2001, Chairman of the Liturgics department of the Orthodox St. Tikhon Theological Institute. Members of the commission: – Archpriest Maxim Kozlov, doctoral candidate of Theology, docent of the Moscow Theological Academy, currently vice chairman of the Educational Committee; – Priest (now Archpriest) Boris Levshenko, docent and chairman of the dogmatic theology department of the Orthodox St. Tikhon Theological Institute; |
| In his speech Fr. Tikhon stressed the woeful ignorance of a large portion of the clergy of the Church Abroad about the situation of the Church in Russia today and about the confessorial path of Russian bishops, priests and laymen in the years of persecution by the godless power. He expressed his conviction that the experience of existence of Christ’s Church in a theomachic state in the last century was still waiting for proper historical, hagiographic and theological analysis, and it will be a precious contribution of the Russian Church into the treasury of the Universal Orthodoxy. Fr. Tikhon’s report reached many Conferees, though not all. And that is why the roundtable “The Church in Russia Today”, which opened towards the end of the first day of the conference, was again a discussion to sort out whether our Church indeed changed… During this roundtable Archpriest Maxim Kozlov in his 8-minute address tried to explain new trends in our church life related to catechizing, work with the youth and so on. This attempt to shift the talk to the discussion of the topical modern problems of our church life, in fact it is topical not only for us, but for them too, often stumbled on vapid questions with the point we had to repent of “Sergianism”, ecumenism, that Metropolitan Sergius destroyed church life in our country and so on. After the first day of the conference, when the participants, who were suspicious and ill-disposed and did not see any prospects neither in restoration of the Eucharistic communion nor in the further development of the dialogue, blew off steam this way, the work on the second day was more fruitful. The audience could see: those who are not interested in the dialogue could offer nothing better than traditional incantations against “Sergianism” and ecumenism, without even trying to define what these things were in their essence. The second day started with a lecture of Archpriest Nikolai Artemoff “Sergianism and the Russian Orthodox Church in Accordance with Ukaz (Decree) No. |
| Of course, I have committed occasional sins in assessing what would be best for the Church. But I have always done everything I could for the good of the Church, except for making shameful compromises with anyone at all – and especially with the powers of this world or the authorities. When it was necessary to make a choice, I chose what I thought would be best for the Church, not for myself. Visit of His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill, to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Moleben in the Synodal Chapel. His Holiness greeting Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria. Photo: S. Vlasov, Press Service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Other photographs His Holiness, Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria Celebration of the Nativity of Christ, St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia Divine Liturgy in the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia His Holiness, Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria Meeting of Patriarch Maxim with President Putin Paschal service, 2012 His Holiness, Patriarch Maxim with President Rosen Plevneliev of Bulgaria Translated from the Russian Tweet Donate Share Code for blog Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria: An Uncompromising Defender of the Church admin In memory of His Holiness, the late Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria, who reposed on Tuesday in the 99th year of life, we offer a brief biographical sketch, an interview given by His Holiness to Goran Blagoev as part of a documentary film presented by Bulgarian National Television, and a gallery of ... Since you are here… …we do have a small request. More and more people visit Orthodoxy and the World website. However, resources for editorial are scarce. In comparison to some mass media, we do not make paid subscription. It is our deepest belief that preaching Christ for money is wrong. Having said that, Pravmir provides daily articles from an autonomous news service, weekly wall newspaper for churches, lectorium, photos, videos, hosting and servers. Editors and translators work together towards one goal: to make our four websites possible - Pravmir.ru, Neinvalid.ru, Matrony.ru and Pravmir.com. Therefore our request for help is understandable. |
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