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We will begin to post articles from our twice-yearly periodical, Chrysostom, from February 2009

Chrysostom – Newsletter 8, All Saintstide 2008

Father John Salter, Chairman of the Society, writes in the Chrysostom All Saintstide edition: Dear Members and Friends, Our membership is growing slowly but surely and we are hoping to recruit new…

The Last King of Western Ukraine

Fr Athanasius McVay at his blog Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae gives a life of Blessed Karl of Habsburg-Lorraine, Emperor and King, last Emperor of Austria-Hungary, examining the Habsburg empire’s embrace of Eastern and…

The Church of the East, Christoph Baumer

The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity, Christoph Baumer (I B Tauris – Palgrave Macmillan, pp 328, £25) Three scholars well-known in Eastern Church circles recommend this large…

The Orthodox Church of Georgia

Fr John Salter writes: The Russian invasion of Georgia sees two Orthodox countries at war with each other. This, though sad, should not surprise us when one looks at the relationship over…

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…