Representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate continue to release statements slamming Russia's actions in Crimea, suggesting at a broader and growing split with Patriarch Kirill. The Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kanev Sofrony lambasted Russian officials from his...
The devil, they say, is in the details. This must surely be true even more of ecclesiastical unions than of business agreements; for the devil is much more interested in the Church, which he does not control, than...
Metropolitan Theodore of Suzdal and Vladimir, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC), Archbishop Andrew of Pavlovskoye and Rockland, Bishop Trofim of Simbirsk and other clergymen of ROAC conducted the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in...
At the completion of the Official Dialogue of the Church of the G.O.C. of Greece with the Orthodox Community in Resistance, the Press Office of the Holy Synod of the G.O.C. makes the following announcement: Today, March 5/18,...
New threats on the part of the adepts of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate were voiced on March 13 in the Synodal Church of the Iveron Mother of God of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church...
On February 10-21, 2014, Archbishop Andrei (Maklakov), administrator of the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) outside Russia, made an arch-pastoral trip to Italy. The key objective of the trip was to establish an Orthodox parish...
16 February 2014 (Old Style) All of Those Holy Saints Who Have Shone Forth in Asceticism To: Exarchate Clergy, Faithful, and Friends, May God bless you. A Blessed Great Fast to all. At long last, and having frustrated...
Your Eminences, Your Graces, Very Reverend Fathers, Dear Brothers and Sisters,The territory of Kharkiv and Poltava Eparchy of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church became the object of armed aggression of Russia. Yesterday thousands of men who came from...
Portal-Credo.Ru: The court decision obliging you to transfer the "items named as the relics (bones)" of Saints Euphymios and Euphrosynia of Suzdal to the Russian Federation entered into force. At the same time, as follows from the text...
After the Communist-Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia, the single Greek-Russian Church (its official name since the 18th century) was found to be split administratively - first by the front line, and then by...
Dear Brothers and Sister in the Lord! The political situation in Ukraine is critical. In the city of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, armed forces make every attempt to captured Maydan by force, using grenades and other explosive...
"Affirm the decision of Suzdal District Court, and refrain from granting the appeals", such was the verdict announced on February 11 by the Civil Chamber of Vladimir Regional Court after the review of the complaints the Russian Orthodox...
Representatives of various denominations take turns in celebrating Mass on Kiev’s Independence Square, the heart of anti-government demonstrations. They were invited by the leaders of the opposition. Churches condemn the streets on the violence and call on politicians...
Translator’s introduction: The following essay, written by His Grace, Bishop Gregory of Petrograd and Gdov, in the summer of 2013, is addressed first and foremost to True Orthodox Christians living in today’s Russia. Some of the problems he...
The Common Pleas Collegium of Vladimir Regional Court decided to postpone the examination of the appeal of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) against the order of Suzdal District Court on the confiscation of the "items named as...
"No illegal interfering with the activities of religious organizations or religious rites has been identified in the case under review", stated R.V. Belov, Investigator of the Oktyabrsky Inter-District Investigating Section of the Vladimir Regional Department of the Investigative...
A strange and marvelous mystery do I behold – thus, on our behalf, does the liturgical service on this festal night speak of Christ’s Nativity. This means: “I see a certain mystery alien to my life experience and...
On January 14, 2014 Vladimir Regional Court will review the appeals from the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC), its Suzdal Diocese, parish of St. Tsar Constantine Cathedral and Joy of All Who Sorrow Church in Suzdal, and Metropolitan...
Decision to liquidate the Orthodox Enlightenment Center (OEC), apublic organization, was passed on December 23 by St. Petersburg City Court, reports Interfax. So far, the whereas of this court decision is not known, but, according to Interfax, it...
Portal-Credo.Ru: What events in Russia’s religious life in 2013 you would note as the most important ones?Lev Regelson: A sharp decline in the authority of ROC in the Russian society is related to the anti-human, aggressive and sanctimonious...
The recent statement made by Nikolai Azarov, Prime Minister of Ukraine, according to which the country must legalize same-sex marriages in order to obtain the right of visa-free travel within the framework of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement has...
As I consider not the details but the broad framework within which our beloved teacher, Father Alexander Schmemann lived, taught, wrote and lectured, I realize that he shared, with all the ancient Holy Fathers of the ancient Church,...
Alexander Schmemann was my father. And it is as my father that I will share some memories with you.My father was not directly involved in our upbringing. He was always there, but it is my mother who really...
"The facts set forth in your application are not consistent with the reality." Such was the wording of the runaround received on December 9 by Metropolitan Theodore of Suzdal and Vladimir, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous...
Access to the web server of Protal-Credo.Ru located in Germany was blocked on Monday, December 2 around 13.20 Moscow time. According to the official information from the hosting company received by the editorial office, the reason for the...
Appeals from the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC), parish of Tsar Constantine Cathedral and Joy of All Who Sorrow Church in Suzdal and Metropolitan Theodore of Suzdal and Vladimir, First Hierarch of ROAC, against the decision of Suzdal...
Russian President Vladimir Putin showed off his religious side during a visit Monday to the Vatican, stopping to cross himself and kiss an icon of the Madonna that he gave to Pope Francis. But Moscow's improving relations with...
On November 20 Suzdalskaya Nov, a Suzdal District newspaper, reprinted the article "State Department in cassock?", the article written by Andrey Kovalev and containing gross slander against the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) formerly published by Vladimirskiye Vedomosti,...
In view of the rumors presently circulating in the Internet according to which the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) has allegedly transferred the wooden reliquaries with the images of Saints Euphymios and Euphrosynia of Suzdal,...
According to the Tomos of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate in North America extends over St. Nicholas Cathedral in Manhattan , Pine Bush real estate, and 43 parishes. The...
In August 2011 hieromonk Akakios in Serbia left GOC Synod of Archbishop Kallinikos in order to be ordained as Bishop by hierarchs of RTOC (Russian True-Orthodox Church, one of the “fragments” of ROCOR in Russia). About half of...
Intensified exchanges between the leaders of the two churches, two weeks from Putin's expected visit to the Pope. Kirill meets Card. Scola: " Never before have we had so many things in common." The archbishop of Milan speaks...
The annual celebration of the Dedication Day of the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) took place on 4 November in the Cossack village of Otradnaya, Krasnodar...
"Unfortunately, at present your complaint cannot be admitted to examination", - such was the reply received in late October by Metropolitan Theodore of Suzdal and Vladimir, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC), from the office...
In the evening of October 30 Internet users in Vladimir Region (Russia), where the spiritual and administrative center of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) is located, were prevented from enteringpublished by "Portal-Credo.Ru".
"Portal-Credo.Ru": On October 23 Suzdal District Court ruled to confiscate the "items named as the relics of the Saints Euphymios and Euphrosynia" from the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC) and personally from Metropolitan Theodore, its First Hierarch. However,...
On October 23 Suzdal District Court completed the examination of the claim of the Territorial Administration of the Agency for Management of Russian State Property (Rosimushchestvo) of Vladimir Region for the confiscation of the relics of Saints Euphymios...
"Portal-Credo.Ru": What were your impressions of the atmosphere at the October 1 session of the Suzdal District Court dedicated to the case on the confiscation of the holy relics of Saints Euphymios and Euphrosynia of Suzdal from ROAC?...
Following a number of particularly garrulous comments concerning my position about an “ecclesiastical union” of our Sacred Synod with the Holy Orthodox Church in North America (HOCNA) I state the following: 1) I requested in written form from...
A couple of years ago, I started to receive letters, emails and phone calls from people asking me why we bishops, who had once been clergy together in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) but were...
