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[English Edition / Church History]

Tsar Nicholas, Nazis, Louis Sullivan, and a Little Chicago Church: The Crazy Story of St. Luke’s Portrait of the Virgin Mary

William O'Connor

The Tikhvin Icon has traveled through history and across the globe on an arduous journey few pieces of art can claim to match.

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

Emperor Nicholas II: Rare Photos from Family Albums

We here present rare photographs of the tsar from 1907 to 1915 from six family albums that were taken abroad by the empress’ lady-in-waiting Anna Vyrubova.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Under the Wings of a Heavenly Bird

The Story of the First Monastery in Post-Soviet Russia

Maxim Vasyunov, Igumen Michael (Semenov)

Igumen Michael (Semenov), deputy abbot of Klykovo Monastery, speaks on Matushka’s role in the appearance of the monastery, on the difficulties and victories of the brethren, on the continuity of love, and much else in this candid conversation.

[English Edition / Church History]

Fourth International St. George Knights’ Tournament

Photo Report

Around 120 leading historical reenactors gathered from around the world to participate in one of the largest historical reenactment festivals in the world, where Medieval chivalry was portrayed in all its details.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Church in Seventh Century Celtic Britain

Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin

The period between the fifth and the eighth centuries was called “the age of saints” in Wales.

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

Participants in the Eternal Pascha

The Memory of the Optina Brothers Killed on Pascha in 1993

Olga Rozhneva

They were God’s chosen ones. To die for Christ is an honor that must be earned.

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

Two Paschal Celebrations in Prison

Vitaly Chekhranov

This was the most difficult Pascha of the four that I had celebrated during my imprisonment from 1923 to 1926.

[English Edition / Church History]

A Pascha of Beauty – In a Soviet Prison – 1928

Fr. Stephen Freeman

This letter should become a classic of Orthodox writing and witness to the faith that sustained so many and is today being resurrected in so many places. The triumph of the Resurrection so transcends his prison cell it’s a wonder that the walls remained.

[English Edition / Church History]

Irish Monasticism and the Paschal Controversy

From the history of the Irish Church in the seventh century

Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin

The main theological dispute in sixth and seventh-century Ireland was the controversy over the correct date for Pascha.

[English Edition / Church History]

“This is Our Golgotha…”

The story of the Malyshevs’ church house and people who lived there

Dmitry Mikhailov

When the Church of the Theophany, the last Orthodox church in Vyshny Volochek was shut down, this was the house where the parishioners held secret worship services. When the owners of the house were arrested and all their relatives and friends, stricken by fear, turned their backs on the “children of the enemies of the state”, this house witnessed another act of courage as the children were saved by selfless people who became their guardians.

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

In Memoriam: Archpriest Alexei Zotov (March 10, 1930-February 12, 2012)

Olga Orlova

ew of us can imagine what it was like during the transition period from soviet times into our own times in Russia to begin the herculean task of restoring the desecrated churches. These reminiscences paint a fragment of this picture in describing the life of one true man of God in Moscow, Archpriest Alexei Zotov.

[English Edition / Church History]

A Land Soaked in the Blood of the Martyrs, and Cities Built on Human Bones

On the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian northeast

Peter Davydov, Priest Pavel Chidemyan

Bishop Mitrophan (Badanin) of Severomorsk and Umba (the far Northeast of Russia) talks with two young men, one a priest and the other an editorial writer, about the meaning of the podvig of the New Martyrs and confessors of Russia for us who live today, about the process of canonization of this great host of saints, and whether we live up to the great name of “Christian”.

[English Edition / Church and State]

Christianity and Communism, Relics and Corpses, Truths and Half-Truths

Nun Cornelia (Rees)

After a number of media, mostly tabloid, picked up a story that President Putin supposedly equated communism with Christianity and Lenin’s embalmed but nevertheless decomposing remains with holy Christian relics, I was hoping to see an article somewhere discussing this sanely in either Russian or in English.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

An Ancient Liturgical Tradition: The Babylonian Furnace Rite

Nicholai Bulchuk, Andrei Kotov

Only a handful of specialists now know about a liturgical rite called “the Furnace Act” practiced in Russia from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and mentioned as early as the tenth century in Byzantium. It was a rite that was celebrated on the great feasts. With this rite also began the forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.

[English Edition / Church History]

A Church, or a Museum?

How should comtemporary Russians remember Soviet-era political repressions?

Vasiliy Shchipkov

In this article, Vasiliy Shchipkov, who holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, discusses the Christian approach to remembering the terrible time of Soviet repressions vs. a mentality of retribution.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

As in Old Russia: Edinoverie Families Today

Vladimir Basenkov

We decided to ask a few questions to simple lay Old Believers about the way of life in their “little church” today.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Royal Army Nurse

Anna Vedyayeva

The life of Olga Alexandrovna Romanov, the last Grand Duchess of Russia, was filled with such numerous sorrows as rarely befall a person in a lifetime. But through her kindness, modesty and courage she withstood all the miseries that lay in store for her in the twentieth century.

[English Edition / Theology]

If Nothing Else, the True Faith

Protopresbyter-Stavrophore Srboljub Miletic

What is the difference in the understanding of the Church and the Church affiliation between Orthodox and Roman Catholics? For other “Christians”, there is no clear and consistent teaching about it, so we will consider this particular difference, in hopes that the understanding of it will also make the other differences clearer.

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

The 100th Anniversary of St. Tikhon’s Election, Enthronement

In 2017, we mark the centennial anniversary of the tumultuous events that would radically alter the historical course of the Orthodox Church throughout the world, particularly in Russia and North America. The main cataclysmic event that precipitated these changes was the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in late 1917.

[English Edition / Church History]

Why Is It Necessary to Restore the Patriarchate?

A Speech at the General Meeting of the 1917-1918 Church Council

St. Hilarion (Troitsky)

In honor of today's celebration of the centenary of the enthronement of St. Tikhon (Bellavin) as the first occupant of the renewed Russian patriarchal throne, we offer here the speech of Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitksy), given October 23, 1917 at the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, in which he passionately argued for the restoration of the patriarchate to the Russian Orthodox Church, detailing the history and development of Church administration to make his case.

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

Carpatho-Russia and the Struggle for the Russian Orthodox Tradition Outside Russia

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Since this sensitive soul could not accept the lie of Uniatism, in 1905 and 1906 Alexander visited the Lavras in Kiev and Pochaiev, where he met both the elderly Metropolitan of Kiev, Flavian, and the dynamic Archbishop Antony (Khrapovitsky), who was to play a vital role in Fr. Alexis’ later life.

[English Edition / Church History]

Sermon Against the Pogroms

Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky)

This sermon was delivered by Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) of blessed memory, later first hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, in the cathedral of Zhitomir, Ukraine, on April 20, 1903.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Exclusive: Age of Jesus Christ’s Purported Tomb Revealed

Kristin Romey

Construction materials date to Roman times, suggesting the original holy site's legacy has survived despite its destruction 1,000 years ago.

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

Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II’s Journey to Pakistan

Notes of a Pakistani Orthodox Priest

Fr. Joseph Farooq

The city of Lahore received this man who would later sacrifice his life along with his family to save holy Russia. He was visiting India in 1891, when he was a still a prince, and it was at that time that he made up his mind to see Lahore.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov’s) Interview with Radio Liberty

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov)

The journalist asks rather provocative and uninformed questions about the Church’s past and present relationship with the Soviet and Russian governments, and Bishop Tikhon provides his views on the complex subject of “Sergianism”, dissidents, and the Church in Russian society today. Although the liberal journalist and the bishop generally aren’t on the same intellectual page, this interview reveals what the Church in Russia now faces—no longer from the communist but now from the liberal press.

[English Edition / Church History]

Message on the Occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Patriarchate in the Russian Orthodox Church

Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia

In honor of the centenary of the glorious event of the restoration of the patriarchate to the Russian Orthodox Church at the Local Council of 1917-1918, OrthoChristian.com takes a look back at the words of His Holiness Patriarch Alexei II of Moscow and All Russia on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the same event.

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