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[English Edition / Theology]

Un-Ecumenism

Fr. Stephen Freeman

The Church is steadily diminished in the life of the nation, privatized and relativized. Its loyalty becomes subsidiary to the loyalty of the State.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Lost in the forest. A real story that took place in Georgia

Nikoloz screamed and ran out, crying: “The icon began weeping and speaking to me! She has said such things to me… Woe to me, a wretched man, and unto all those who are desecrating the house of God!”

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Ancient Witnesses on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

The church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem could be said to be the main church of holy Orthodox. The building includes both Golgotha where our Lord was crucified, and His holy grave, or sepulchre, where He rose again from the dead for the salvation of the world. As such, countless millions of pilgrims have traveled to the Holy Land to venerate the sites in this holy church, since its founding in 326 by the order of Emperor St. Constantine the Great, which is celebrated by the Orthodox Church every year on September 13/26.

[English Edition / Church History]

On This Day: Cathedral of Christ the Saviour Founded in Moscow

Paul Gilbert

On September 22 (O.S. September 10), 1839 the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was solemnly founded by the Metropolitan of Moscow Filaret on the Alexeevsky hill in Moscow to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the end of the Patriotic War and storming of Paris in March of 1814.

[English Edition / Church History]

Encyclical of Archbishop Demetrios for the Commemoration of the Asia Minor Catastrophe

Archbishop Demetrios

We are confronted on a daily basis with the tragedy of conflict in our world, the struggles and suffering of refugees, and the violence and death associated with terrorism and genocide. We see and hear reports of the tremendous challenges faced by people who are being expelled from their homes and countries, who are seeking basic provisions and security, and who are in need of hope and comfort.

[English Edition / Church History]

The First Orthodox Christian

Abbot Tryphon

Leif Eriksson was the first Orthodox Christian in America.

[English Edition / Church History]

In This Great Service: A Theological and Political Defence of Monarchy

Ryan Hunter

Is democracy “automatically” the best form of government? Where did the Christian form of monarchy come from? Ryan Hunter explores these questions and more on his blog.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

The Shroud of Turin: A Mystery Across the Ages

Fr. Alexey Young

On this day, the Church celebrates the icon of the Savior "Made Without Hands"—the prototype of which is believed to be an image of Jesus Christ's holy face, left on a cloth used to cover His face at burial after the crucifixion. An exhaustively researched and highly interesting article by Fr. Alexy Young, Nun Michaila, and Mary Mansur was published a number of years ago in the periodical, "Orthodox America" on the Shroud of Turin and the Holy Napkin. We present it today in the spirit of the present feast.

[English Edition / Church History]

Texts within ancient Dead Sea Scrolls finally revealed after 45 years of study

For the last 45 years a highly fragile mystery resembling a small piece of charcoal or two-day old dog poop has been ensconced in the bowels of the Israel Antiquities Authority here.

[English Edition / Theology]

An Orthodox Look at English Translations of the Bible

Fr. John Whiteford

If one wishes to study the Scriptures, one of the most important things that he must do is to acquire a good translation of the text, unless he just happens to know Biblical Hebrew, and Koine Greek. Especially nowadays, when it seems there is a new translation or study Bible that is published each year, it is not a simple choice to make.

[English Edition / Church History]

Why Vestments? An Introduction to Liturgical Textiles of the Post-Byzantine World

The exhibition Liturgical Textiles of the Post-Byzantine World, now on view through November 1, 2015, presents a selection of notable liturgical vestments that communicate the continuing prestige of the Orthodox Church and its clergy in the centuries following the fifteenth-century fall of Byzantine Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

When Perversion Was Replaced By Proper Order

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon

In her childbearing, moreover, Ruth becomes a paradoxical channel through which Abraham reaches to David, thus fulfilling Jacob’s prophecy of the royalty promised, near the end of Genesis, to the tribe of Judah.

[English Edition / News]

Russian tsar 'lived secretly as monk in Siberia' for decades after history books say he died

New handwriting analysis suggests his death was faked so he could repent his sins as holy man.

[English Edition / Church History]

Met Saba Esber Responds to the Patriarchate of Jerusalem's Statement

Every observer of Church history knows that the Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Council, held in Chalcedon in 451, decided "out of reverence for the Lord's Passion and Resurrection" to elevate the city of Jerusalem, which at the time was a bishopric subject to the Patriarchate of Antioch, to the rank of patriarchate. Over the course of time, Antioch gave her some of her bishopric so that she could have a patriarchal existence. We could mention, for example, that Haifa remained a bishopric of Antioch until the 18th century.

[English Edition / Church History]

What Ever Happened to the Holy Altar of Hagia Sophia After 1453?

According to legend, after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, three Venetian ships fled the city filled with various relics to avoid their capture by the Turks, but the third which carried the Holy Altar of Hagia Sophia, sank into the waters of the Bosphorus in the Marmara region. Since then, in the exact area of the sinking, the sea is always calm and serene, no matter what weather conditions are prevailing in the area. This phenomenon is testified by modern Turkish scientists, who have attempted at various times to discover the cause of this strange phenomenon, but due to the muddy composition of the seabed, their efforts have been fruitless.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Around the World]

Ruins of an Orthodox church and remains of a Russian priest are offered for sale in Sweden

If a would-be buyer of the “Russian yard” house pays 8.1 million Swedish krona, he or she will obtain two apartments, a restaurant decorated with ancient frescoes as well as ruins (the foundation, nave and apse) of an Orthodox church on which the house is built. The remains of a Russian priest who lived 900 years ago can be found among the ruins.

[English Edition / Church and State]

Crowned, anointed, and communed as clergy: On the coronations of Russian empresses regnant

Ryan Hunter

It is well-known that in May 1896, at the last coronation of a Russian monarch and his consort, Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna were both crowned and anointed by the Russian Orthodox Church’s senior-ranking metropolitan. Russian tsars had been crowned from time immemorial, but what is fascinating about this last coronation ceremony was that many of the time-honored rituals Nicholas II participated in as the monarch were rituals first observed in 1730 at the coronation of a female sovereign, Empress Anna Ivanovna.

[English Edition / Church History]

When the Philippines welcomed Russian refugees

Tubabao Island hosted around 6,000 ‘White Russian’ refugees, who fled China in 1948, when they were in danger of being forcibly repatriated to the USSR. They lived on the Philippine island for four years, a time that locals affectionately refer to as ‘Tiempo Russo.’

[English Edition / Church History]

History Museum in Bulgaria's Dobrich Revives Europe's Earliest Christian Rock Monastery

An Early Christian rock monastery in Northeast Bulgaria, which according to some historians andarchaeologists is the oldest of its kind in Europe, has been revived for the first time since the conquest of the medieval Bulgarian Empire by the Ottoman Turks at the end of the 14th century AD.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Tsar's Photographer and His Amazing Contribution to the Preservation of Russian History

100 photos, 100 years old or older, 100 years after Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky completed his historic quest to capture the beauty, diversity, and spiritual power of Tsarist Russia.

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