Tag: ecumenical patriarchate

Eternal Memory: Mother Thekla

Father John Salter writes in Chrysostom, Pascha 2012: Mother Thekla was born Marina Sharf into a family of Jewish descent in the Caucasian town of Kislovodsk, just as the Russian Revolution was beginning, in…

Diptychs: Orthodox Unity and Ecclesiology

Sophia Kishkovsky of ENI News reports, 22 March 2011     Diptychs, an arcane liturgical term that describes the order in which Orthodox churches commemorate each other at their services, is one…

Bishop Michael Botean – at Orientale Lumen Euro-East III

Jack Figel, who so energetically leads SSJC in the USA, writes (September 12 2010) –   I’ve had several requests to post the introductory remarks by Bishop John Michael Botean at the opening…

Eternal Memory: Canon Donald Allchin

In Chrysostom for Pascha 2011, Fr John Salter writes: It was in 1957 that I first met Donald Allchin. He had been ordained the year before to a title at St. Mary Abbots,…