| Archive The ‘Serbian Consolation for the Russian Heart’ international festival opens at the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University. 19 October 2022 year 18:13 On 18th October 2022 in the Hall of Councils of the historical Diocesan House in Moscow, the main building of the Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University, there was the opening of the ‘Serbian Consolation for the Russian Heart’ international festival as part of the celebrations of the thirtieth anniversary of the university’s founding. The solemn opening of the festival was headed by the bishop of Zaraisk Constantine. The bishop greeted all those who had gathered and the honoured guests of the festival the metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral Joanikije (Miovi), the bishop of Pacrac and Slavonia John (ulibrk) and the Serbian ambassador to Russia Mr. Momil Babi. In his speech bishop Constantine emphasized the importance of the spiritual communion of the two fraternal peoples: “Today we have a unique opportunity to become closely acquainted with the experience of the Serbian Church and listen to the voice of her archpastors. I hope that our conversations will be of great benefit, strengthen our fraternal ties and inspire us to interaction and prayer. Two exhibitions had been organized at the university for the festival, the first being ‘Serbian Holy Sites – Desecrated and Restored’ (by Ye.A. Osipov and M. Aimovi), dedicated to the monumental masterpieces of Kosovo and Metochia, and secondly, an exposition of works by the Serbian artist nun Maria (Anti), entitled ‘Jasenovac: Faith and Resurrection. Be faithful unto death and I shall give you the crown of life (Rev 2.10)’, (arranged by Father Alexei Pichigin and Father Maxim Brazhnikov). The exposition is an artistic rendering of the Christian feat of the Serbian new martyrs. The main event of the occasion was an evening dedicated to the memory of metropolitan Amphilochius (Radovi) (+30.10.2020), one of the hierarchs instrumental in defining the fate of Montenegro in modern history. |
| Photo: pravoslavie.ru His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov, the author of the best-seller Everyday Saints , presented the Chinese translation of his work in Hong Kong on Monday, reports TASS . “Although it’s just a crumb, it’s still our humble contribution to the strengthening of the mutual understanding of the peoples of Russia and China. If it somewhat opens to Chinese readers the most important thing, what we have in the spiritual life in Russia, I’ll consider my mission accomplished,” His Eminence said at the event at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong. The initiative to translate the book into Chinese was launched in 2014 . The book release drew diplomats, journalists, public figures, and representatives of the Russian club in Hong Kong and the local Orthodox parish. Professor of Russian philology Liu Wenhai, President of the Chinese Association for the Study of Russian Literature, says he spent nearly a year translating the nearly 400 pages and 200,000 characters. “It is distinguished from many other religious books by the fascinating narrative, the sincere tone, and the absence of strict moral teachings and theological sermons,” Wenhai said. Illustrations for the Chinese translation were handled by Zhou Changsin, who visited Russia and prepared 25 thematic paintings. He is considered the founder of the style of Chinese oil painting characterized by its fine details and expressive tones. Everyday Saints has already been published in 18 different languages and sold 3 million copies, Met. Tikhon noted. The Swedish translation was published just a few days ago as well. Met. Tikhon was also in China in July to present the Chinese translation of the book Word of a Pastor by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill. “In China, unfortunately, little is known about Orthodoxy, which is the foundation and core of the spiritual life in Russia. At the same time, we find considerable interest, firstly from educated people, academic circles in China, about what Orthodoxy is,” he said. |
| Accept The site uses cookies to help show you the most up-to-date information. By continuing to use the site, you consent to the use of your Metadata and cookies. Cookie policy His Holiness Patriarch Kirill celebrates moleben in Donskoy Monastery at the shrine with St. Tikhon’s relics DECR Communication Service, 07/04/2024 On 7 th April 2024, 3 rd Sunday of Lent, of the Veneration of the Cross, Feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, commemoration of the demise of Saint Tikhon the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia (1925), after celebrating the Divine Liturgy in the Holy Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ visited the Donskoy Stavropegic Monastery in Moscow, which is home to the relics of the Holy Patriarch Tikhon. As the Patriarchal Press Service reports , in the Great Cathedral of the Donskoy Monastery, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated a moleben. Concelebrating with His Holiness were Metropolitan Grigory of Voskresensk, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate, Patriarchal first vicar for the city of Moscow; Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Nikandr of Naro-Fominsk, chairman of the Financial and Economic Administration of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Feognost of Kashira, chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism, abbot of the Donskoy Monastery; Archbishop Foma of Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk, head of the Administrative Secretariat of the Moscow Patriarchate, rector of the Holy Theophany Cathedral in Yelokhovo in Moscow; Archbishop Savva of Zelenograd, deputy chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Bishop Alexy of Ramenskoye, private secretary to His Holiness Patriarch Kirill; Protopresbyter Vladimir Divakov, secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’ for the city of Moscow; Priest Vasily Losev, head of the Legal Service of the Moscow Metropolia; and ordained coenobites of the Donskoy Monastery. |
| Patriarch Kirill Encourages Russian and American Christians to Combine Peacekeeping Potential Source: Pravmir.ru November 3, 2014. The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church noted that the Moscow Patriarchate considers peacekeeping activity to be a “fundamental task facing the civil conflict in Ukraine, and also in the context of the Russian-American relations.” “We are meeting here during a time when Russian-American relations are enduring quite a difficult period. The lexicon and phraseology of the ‘Cold War’ time have entered our life. The Church does not conduct political activities, but it has always been called to perform peacekeeping activities,” the Patriarch stated during his meeting with Metropolitan Tikhon, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, in Moscow today. Interfax, the Russian news agency, has reported that His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, stated that he had recently met with the new U.S. Ambassador in Moscow and noted during that meeting that not merely Orthodox Christians, but other Christians of both countries “have had the courage and capacity to do something in order to change the situation for the better” even in the difficult period of the “Cold War.” The Patriarch pointed out that during that time, Christians of the USA and the Soviet Union were united in understanding that they shared the same values, “but today many things have changed for the worst.” “Today we cannot state that we share the same values that numerous Christians in the United States do. We feel how this spiritual and moral affinity that united us in the difficult time of the ‘Cold War’ is being destroyed today,” His Holiness Patriarch Kirill noted. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and Metropolitan Tikhon will concelebrate the Divine Liturgy at the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin tomorrow. 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. |
| Concelebrating with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill were Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna; Metropolitan Varsonofy of Saransk and Mordovia, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations; Metropolitan Ioann of Belgorod and Stary Oskol, chairman of the Synodal Missionary Department; Metropolitan Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssk, chairman of the Synodal Committee for Cooperation with the Cossacks; Archbishop Arseny of Istra; Archbishop Yevgeny of Vereya, chairman of the Synodal Education Committee; Archbishop Feognost of Sergiev Posad, chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism; Archbishop Mark of Yegoryevsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s office for institutions abroad; Bishop Ilian (Vostryakov); Bishop Nikon (Mironov); Schema-Bishop Sergy (Zaliznitsky); Bishop Tikhon of Vidnoye; Bishop Feofilakt of Dmitrov; Bishop Innokenty of Bronnitsy, chairman of the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs; Bishop Sergy of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Administrative secretariat of the Moscow Patriarchate; Bishop Ieronim (Chernyshov); Bishop Tikhon of Podolsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s financial and economic office; Bishop Panteleimon of Smolensk and Vyazma, chairman of the Synodal Department for Charity and Church Service; Bishop Nikolai of Balashikha; Bishop Savva of Voskresensk; Bishop Konstantin of Zaraisk; archpriest Vladimir Divakov, Patriarch’s secretary for Moscow; Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, chairman of the Synodal Department for Cooperation with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement; Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church-Society Relations; archimandrite Savva (Tutunov), deputy chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate; archimandrite Feoktist (Dimitrov), representative of the Patriarch of Bulgaria to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; archpriest Mikhail Ryazantsev, a sacristan of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour; archpriest Alexy Yuschenko, representative of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia; abbots of stavropegic monasteries; and deans and clergymen of the Moscow and Smolensk dioceses. |
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| Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson Скачать epub pdf LIVING CHURCH LIVING CHURCH. The “Living” or “Renovated Church” was a movement in Russia that profoundly affected church life in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. When Patriarch Tikhon Belavin (q.v.) had been arrested in Moscow by the Bolsheviks in 1922, a group of clergy with the help of the Communists seized control of the patriarchate (q.v.) and took possession of church valuables, including consecrated liturgical utensils (q.v.). This allowed the Soviets to sell confiscated church artifacts wholesale overseas through entrepeneurs (such as Armand Hammer in the United States) in order to bolster their failing economic policies, a practice that continued for at least fifty years. Correspondingly, the government gave control of the church administration to dissident priests whom it could manipulate. Theologically, at first the appeal of the Living Church to the progressive-minded was legitimate, coming from its institution of reforms that were discussed at the Russian Councils of 1905 to 1918, but were not initiated for various reasons. Soon they went beyond this to consecrate married clergy to the episcopacy-something not done since the Sixth Ecumenical Council (q.v.)-and grant permission for the remarriage of priests, considered by many to be an uncanonical act. Although Patriarch Tikhon was supported by the faithful and anathematized the usurpers on his release from prison, continued government support gave the new movement access to church properties. In 1923 a council of the Living Church “deposed” the Patriarch and appointed Fr. Joh n Kedrovsky, a suspended married priest from the North American Russian Diocese, as “Archbishop of North America.” Kedrovsky returned to the United States and began litigating for church properties as the “lawful bishop” of the Diocese. Aside from creating confusion as to who the rightful bishop was, Kedrovsky posed a real threat of confiscating 115 parishes in the courts, especially after he successfully gained control of St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York City in 1925. |
| Photo: ocapodvorie.org On 21 June 2020, the Day of All Saints Who Shone Forth in the Russian Land and the Community of American Saints, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Great Martyr Catherine Church-in-the-Fields, the Moscow representation of the Orthodox Church in America. As the year 2020 marks the 50 th anniversary of the granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in America, the OCA Moscow representation, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada, celebrated with special solemnity the memory of ascetics who contributed to the assertion of Orthodoxy in the American continent. After the Sunday Divine Liturgy, a prayer was said at the church’s icons of Russian and American saints. Archpriest Daniel Andrejuk, representative of Metropolitan Tikhon to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, noted that it was through the efforts of Russian ascetic devotees that Orthodoxy began its historical journey in America and now many of them are glorified as both Russian and American saints. The first Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the territory of America (N 58°14′, W 141°) on 20 July 1741, the commemoration day of St. Elijah, on board the Peter ship under the command of Vitus Bering. It was celebrated by Hieromonk Hilarion (Trusov) and Father Ignatiy Kozyrevskiy. A few decades later, Russian merchant Grigoriy Shelikhov visited the Valamo monastery and proposed that its abbot send missionaries to Russian America. On 24 September 1794, having covered 7 327 miles for 293 days (the longest missionary journey in the history of Orthodoxy) a group of Valamo monks reached Kodiak Island in Alaska. The mission led by Archimandrite Joasaph included Hieromonks Juvenaly, Makary and Afanasy, Hierodeacons Nektary and Stephan, and monks Herman and Joasaph. Protomartyr Juvenaly was killed by aborigines off Iliaman Lake in 1799 and became the first Orthodox Christian who shed his blood for Christ in the New World. In 1816, Saint Peter the Aleut was put to death by Spanish missionaries in California for his refusal to embrace Catholicism. Saint Herman of Alaska, the last surviving member of the mission, passed away in the Lord in 1837. |
| St. Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev and Gallich Commemorated on January 25 The holy Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev was the first bishop to be tortured and slain by the Communists at the time of the Russian Revolution. Basil Nikephorovich Bogoyavlensky was born in the province of Tambov of pious parents on January 1, 1848. His father, a priest, was later murdered. The young Basil graduated from the Theological Academy in Kiev in 1874, and taught in the Tambov seminary for seven years before he was ordained to the holy priesthood. His wife died in 1886, and their only child died shortly thereafter. The bereaved widower entered the Kozlov monastery in Tambov and was given the name Vladimir. In 1888 he was consecrated bishop of Staraya Rus, and served as a vicar bishop of the Novgorod diocese. In 1891 he was assigned to the diocese of Samara. In those days people of his diocese suffered from a cholera epidemic and a crop failure. Bishop Vladimir devoted himself to caring for the sick and suffering, inspiring others to follow his example. In 1892 he became Archbishop of Kartalin and Kahetin, then in 1898 he was chosen as Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna. He served fifteen years in this position. Metropolitan Vladimir was distinguished by his compassion for the poor, and for widows and orphans. He also tried to help alcoholics and those who had abandoned the Church. The Metropolitan was also interested in the education of children in school, especially those who were studying in the theological schools. In 1912, after the death of Metropolitan Anthony, he was appointed Metropolitan of Petrograd, administering that diocese until 1915. Because he disapproved of Rasputin, Metropolitan Vladimir fell out of favor with the Tsar, and so he was transferred to Kiev. On November 5, 1917 he who announced that Saint Tikhon (April 7) had been elected as Patriarch of Moscow. The “Ukrainian Congress” was also calling for an autonomous Ukraine and for the creation of a Ukrainian Church independent from the Church of Russia. Metropolitan Vladimir suffered and grieved because of this question, warning that such a division in the Church would allow its enemies to be victorious. However, at the end of 1917, a Ukrainian Dominion was formed, and also a separate Ukrainian church administration (“rada”) led by the retired Archbishop Alexis Dorodnitzin. This uncanonical group forbade the commemoration of Patriarch Tikhon during church services, and demanded that Metropolitan Vladimir leave Kiev. |
| Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, Michael D. Peterson Скачать epub pdf ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA (OCA) ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA (OCA). Russian Orthodox missionaries first arrived in Alaska (q.v.), then part of the Russian Empire, in 1794. The original dozen or so missionaries from the Valaamo Monastery near Finland included Herman (q.v.), a monk who lived forty-three years on Spruce Island near Kodiak, and who was canonized as the first American Orthodox saint (q.v.). The Orthodox Church in America is the direct descendant of this Russian Orthodox Missionary Diocese and is the only canonical autocephalous (q.v.) Orthodox church based on the North American continent. In 1824 the Alaskan mission received new life with the arrival of the priest, then bishop, Innocent Veniaminov (q.v.). He fostered indigenous church life, translating Church documents into Aleut. Innocent was appointed Bishop of Kamchatka, the Kuriles and Aleutians (1840), with residence in New Archangel, now Sitka. He became the first Orthodox bishop with North American territory in his episcopal title. As bishop, Innocent traveled extensively in Asia and North America. He called for a self-governing American Orthodox church, with leadership representing Orthodox Christians from all ethnic and national backgrounds. Toward the end of the 19th c. Russian America (q.v.) and Orthodoxy therein experienced tremendous growth as thousands of Orthodox Christians from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Albania, Greece, Turkey, and various Middle Eastern countries immigrated to the United States and Canada. A large number of Uniates (q.v.) in the United States also reunited themselves with the canonical Russian Orthodox Church here. Bishop Tikhon Belavin (q.v.) headed the North American Missionary Diocese from 1898 to 1907. He moved the Church’s center from San Francisco to New York City, founded St. Tikhon’s Monastery in Pennsylvania, and built St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York City. Tikhon called for greater autonomy of the North American Missionary Diocese, including development of local leadership and increased use of various liturgical languages, especially English, later sponsoring a translation of services. He returned to Russia (1907) and was elected the first Patriarch of Moscow (1918) since the time of Peter the Great. Before the Russian Revolution in 1917, Orthodox Christians from various backgrounds remained a unified Missionary Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church (q.v.). After the revolution the Russian emigre community in the new world was fractured, and changing ecclesiastical jurisdictions divided along lines of ethnic origin and political differences. |
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