Repose of Metropolitan Abba Marcos

Fr John Salter writes: Abba Marcos died on 11th May 2008 in the Hospital of Our Lady of Good Remedy while visiting Barcelona. He was born in Holland on 20th August 1923.…

The Reluctant to Accept and Reluctantly Accepted Bishop

Dr Athanasius McVay at his blog, Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae, has posted a recent essay on Count Roman Alexander Sheptytsky, better known as Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, the famous leader of the Ukrainian Greek…

Lady Surma

Fr John Salter writes: In 1926 Lady Surma d`bait Mar Shimun issued an appeal on behalf of the Assyrian People: We Assyrians are the last survivors of the ancient and once all-powerful…

The Assyrian Church of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church

The Patriarchal Cathedral of the Assyrians at Kudshanes, Turkey Fr John Salter writes: The Great Schism of 1054 was between Rome and Constantinople and latterly the other Patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and…

Chrysostom – Newsletter 7, Pascha 2008

Father John Salter, Chairman of the Society, writes: The last half year has been eventful for the Society. The collapse of the ceiling of the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family-…

Sisters in Christ, John Salter:

Sisters in Christ: Practical Ecumenism from contemporary documents, 1935-1951, edited by The Reverend A T J Salter, Urosevic Foundation, £6, obtainable from the Chairman of the Society Sisters in Christ is a…

Mother Maria Skobtsova

The Pearl of Great Price: The Life of Mother Maria Skobstova, 1891-1945, Father Sergei Hackel. £12.99 Silent as a Stone – Mother Maria of Paris and the Trash Can Rescue, Jim Forest.£9.99p…

Repose of Archbishop Elias Zoghby, 1912-2008

Fr John Salter writes: His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III, Melkite Greek Catholic of Antioch and All The East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, the Bishops of the Holy Synod of the Melkite…

Patriarch Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly

Fr John Salter writes: We congratulate His Beatitude Patriarch Emmanuel-Karim III Delly, the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldean Catholics, who has been made Cardinal of Holy Church (not of the Holy…